These are the 9 cases for 2012:

• Sami Osmakac Tampa, FL. Plot to bomb sheriff's office and businesses Early Trial pending
• Jamshid Muhtarov Aurora, CO. Attempt to join terrorists in Pakistan Early Trial pending
• Amine El-Khalifi Alexandria, VA. Plot to bomb the U.S. Capitol. Early Pled guilty
• Adel Daoud Chicago, IL Plot to bomb a bar. Early Trial pending
• Henry Dewitt McFarland III, Brownsville, TX. Threatened to bomb university. Early Trial pending
• Sohiel Omar Kabir, Riverside, CA. Attempt to join terrorists in Afghanistan. Early Trial pending
• Ralph Deleon, Miguel Santana, Arifeen Gojali and Raees Alam Qazi, Oakland Park, FL. Plot to bomb unspecified location in New York Early Trial pending.
• Sheheryar Alam Qazi and Abullatif Aldosary, Casa Grande, AZ. Explosion at Social Security building No Trial pending
• Mohammad Abukhdair and Randy Wilson, Mobile, AL. Attempt to join terrorists in Mauritania. Early Trial pending

In 2011 and 2012, there were no deaths there were no fatalities or injuries from Muslim-American
terrorism. 8 of the 9 plots were foiled early, before anything happened.

Since 9/11, a period of 11 years there were 33 deaths due to Muslim-American terrorism. By contrast, there were 180,000 murders in the U.S. during this period.

None of the 2012 suspects had been to terrorist training camps overseas.

There were few ethnic common denominators in the 2012 cases:

The suspects came from a variety of ethnic backgrounds: four were Arab-American, two were South Asian, two were white converts to Islam, two
were East Asian converts to Islam, and one each were Afghan, Kosovar, Uzbek, and a Latino convert.

As to citizenship:

Sixty-four percent of the 2012 suspects were
U.S. citizens, as compared with 67 percent of
all cases since 9/11. Two suspects were
refugees (Abdullatif Aldosary from Iraq and
Jamshid Muhtarov from Uzbekistan.)

The decline has been even steeper when it comes to providing material support for terrorism:

The number of Muslim-Americans indicted for
support of terrorism -- financing, false
statements, and other connections with
terrorist plots and organizations -- fell even
more dramatically than terrorist plots, from 27
individuals in 2010 to 8 in 2011 and 6 in 2012,
bringing the total to 467 since 9/11.

On to the role of the FBI in the 9 cases: Informants and undercover agents instigated almost all of them.

• Undercover FBI employees provided Sami Osmakac in Tampa and Adel Daoud in Chicago with inert
  car bombs.
• An FBI informant used a debit card to pay for plane tickets for Ralph Deleon,Arifeen Gojali, and Miguel Santana, who allegedly sought to join a terrorist organization in Afghanistan
• An FBI informant used a credit card to pay for plane tickets for Mohammad Abukhdair and Randy Wilson,who allegedly planned to join a terrorist
  organization in West Africa.
• FBI employees encouraged El-Khalifi and
  provided him with a jacket containing mock explosives.
• FBI informants sold Raees Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi a laptop computer that they used to research explosives and religious justification for suicide missions.

These are the cases from 9/11 to 2012:

2002:

• Hesham Hadayet, Shot Israeli airline personnel, Los Angeles, California. 2 fatalities, (plus himself)
• Charles Bishop, Flew plane into office tower, Tampa, Florida 0 (plus himself)
• John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, “Beltway Snipers,” metropolitan Washington, D.C. area; 11 fatalities

2006:

• Mohammed Taheri-Azar, Ran over students with rented SUV, Chapel Hill, NC, 0 fatalities
• Naveed Haq, Shot workers at Jewish center, Seattle, Washington, 1 fatality

2007:

• Sulejmen Talovic, Shot people at shopping center, Salt Lake City, UT. 5 fatalities (plus himself)

2009:

• Tahmeed Ahmad, Attacked military police at Homestead Air Reserve Base, FL, 0 fatalities
• Abdulhakim Muhammad, Shooting at military recruitment center, Little Rock, AK, 1 fatality
• Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood shooting, TX, 13 fatalities

2010:

• Faisal Shahzad, Times Square car-bomb, New York City, 0 fatalities

2011:

• Yonathan Melaku, Shot at military buildings in northern Virginia, 0 fatalities

2012:

• Abdullatif Aldosary, Allegedly detonated explosive at Social Security office in Arizona, 0 fatalities

The report concludes:

Muslim-American terrorism dropped for the
third year in a row, resulting in no injuries or
fatalities in 2012. Fourteen Muslim-Americans
were indicted for plotting terrorist violence,
and another six were indicted for support of
terrorism. Almost all of the plots became
known to law enforcement at an early stage,
before weapons or explosives were gathered.

Given these numbers, it is beyond absurd that our politicians are talking about curtailing more of our freedoms and increasing electronic and other means of surveillance on all of us.

The fear of Muslim-Americans is so overblown one has to wonder what motivates it. The obvious answer: nothing more than bigotry.

The FBI should return to the purpose for which it and other law enforcement agencies were founded: to investigate completed crimes. They have done a dismal job when given expanded authority to engage in intelligence activity in an attempt to prevent future crime. I have always said tearing down the wall between intelligence and law enforcement (which began in earnest with the Patriot Act) was a bad idea. I'm now convinced of it.