The story might be pure bull sheet rock but you are missing the point.
We in this country are so busy being politcally correct with the fear of offending someone that we were allowing ourselves to be walked on while our country slowly slips away.
How soon we forget 9-11. That along with the bombing of our embassies, the bombing of the USS Cole etc. certainly wasn't carried out by the local boy scout troop.
You can worry about alienating some poor terrorists, I prefer to give them some of what the gave us.

FYI..... I DID serve my country US Army S/SGT. 1966-1969