Posted on 07/14/2009 6:44:33 AM PDT by TDCAnalyst
The United States may have narrowly missed a repeat of the 9/11 attacks in June — and, apparently, even the FBI doesn’t realize it.
On June 4, a 24-year-old Muslim man named Raed Abdhul-Rahman Alsaif was arrested for trying to bring a seven-inch knife on board a U.S. Airways flight at Tampa International Airport, destined for Phoenix. The blade was seen by a screener and Alsaif was caught before he could get onto the airliner. Of course, he says he is innocent, as some forgetful friend gave him the luggage bag and failed to mention that a knife was embedded inside the material, which the criminal complaint states was “artfully” concealed in such a way as to allow for it to be retrieved once the flight took off.
Alsaif graduated from the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia in 2003. For those that don’t remember, this school has been embroiled in a little bit of controversy the past two years. In October 2007, the U.S. Commission on International Religion Freedom requested that the State Department close the school, citing the use of textbooks filled with extremism. The commission again reported on the school’s radical curriculum in June 2008. One graduate has been convicted of working with al-Qaeda, while two former students were kicked out of Israel upon landing due to clear signs they were planning suicide bombings.
Private investigator Bill Warner notes that when Alsaif was booked and photographed by police in October on his second arrest on drug charges, he had a beard — a beard that was shaven off before he attempted to board the U.S. Airways flight. For those that think this is all attributable to coincidence, there’s another key element to consider.
On the same day, June 4, two other individuals...
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I hear that the FBI is hot on the case of the prank telephone calls to motel residents, telling them to set off fire alarms, etc. That’s good.
I pray we don’t wake up one morning to the news of an incident like this happening and being sucessful. The Obama administration has a duty to the American’s to protect us from terrorist. So far it seems they want to protect them and give them civil liberties.
only a disaster will wake us up.
Define disaster what will it take for the dumb a$$’s to truly wake up about radical Islam
“This investigation represents an isolated incident, involving only these two individuals,” the FBI press release following their arrest states.
It is September 10, and this time we don't have Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld at our back. The FBI's structural and philosophical inability to put together 2+2 and get 4 was a large part of the problem their first time. And apparently, as Tallyrand said of the Bourbons, "They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing."
I think that many times FBI public statements are designed to mislead the enemy, not to mislead the American public nor are they a sign of incompetence.
There should be no doubt that some of these Islamic radicals would want to try a repeat of 9/11. And the guys in the case at hand look very much as if such a repeat was their goal.
But just how much terrorism could they actually have carried out, if the pilot and co-pilot were safely locked away behind a secure cockpit door? Sure, they could murder some flight attendants and/or passengers. Bad enough. But that’s not really the sort of classic and spectacular “terrorism” that constitutes Al Qaeda’s grand strategy.
Bottom line:
I think AQ’s leaders have much bigger things in mind.
Don’t you people keep up with current events? There are no terrorists. Only perpetrators of “man-made disasters” present a danger to the US today!
I agree. They don't have to report every little thing they find out, because that would likely tip off other subjects of investigation.
This will not be a disaster, it will be an act of war.
For us maybe, but what about 0bama and the dims? It’ll probably be Bush’s fault for being so mean and waterboarding.
Absolutely! Just imagine the hit we took when someone revealed we were using Bin Laden’s satellite phone to keep tabs on him. I doubt very seriously he was dumb enough not to have thought of that himself, but apparently prior to the leak he was pretty careless.
Much of what intel services learn comes from simple slip ups by the enemy. Anything that alerts them to a slip up or how something they do without knowing they're being watched works against us.
bttt
Citing DebKAKA, even with this semi-disclaimer, doesn't help the author's credibility.
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