Acts of war: Libya.

From a Jerry Seper piece about a study of Islamic extremists in U.S. prisons:

Jeff Fort, a Chicago gang leader who converted to Islam while incarcerated in 1965. Fort founded a street gang known as El Rukn, which later brokered a deal with Libya to carry out attacks on U.S. police stations, government facilities, military bases and airplanes in exchange for $2.5 million and asylum in Tripoli.

So how hard was the evidence of this deal with the Libyans? This quote doesn't make it sound like there was any doubt about the deal.

So why did we not treat this as an act of war on the part of Gaddafi? What is it with the U.S. that can't bring itself to put people who plot such crimes inside our borders in a world of #$%@ hurt?

"Islamists in U.S. prisons pose threat, report says." By Jerry Seper, Washington Times, 9/20/06.