Posted on 12/26/2009 8:41:46 AM PST by kristinn
The Obama administration will have a lot to answer for after its bumbling federal law enforcement agency allowed a reporter to get close enough to the hospital bed of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to have killed him if that was his intent.
Abdulmutallab is being held by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency after he was badly burned in a reported failed attempt to blow up Northwest flight 253 on its approach to Detroit from Amsterdam yesterday.
The Wall Street Journal reported the incident in an article published here:
On Saturday morning, the suspect appeared to be sleeping when a reporter approached his corner room in the burn center at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor.
Down the hall, other patients were resting in rooms decorated with garland and tinsel for Christmas. A few visitors moved about freely.
The suspect's room was darkened and he lay motionless in bed. His head, with close-cropped hair, was turned away from the door.
Two uniformed customs and border-patrol officers were seated outside the open door and other security officials and hospital staffers were gathered in a nearby conference room.
When the reporter identified himself, a man in a suit and tie said the area was "secured" and ordered the reporter to leave immediately. The man declined to identify himself and he and one of the uniformed guards escorted the reporter to a hospital waiting area. Moments later the man in the suit returned with a hospital security guard, who told the reporter to leave the hospital grounds.
Anyone who has seen the first Godfather movie knows this type of incident is probable and preventable.
Outside of a hospital setting, the infamous deadly shooting of President Kennedy assassin Jack Ruby while in police custody in Dallas is burned in to the nation's conscience--but apparently not the Obama administration.
...too bad he didn’t smother the guy with his pillow.
NOT!
I have not been able to connect with WSJ’s site for the past couple of hours now.
Here’s something else to be worried about. This guy had handlers to help him make his Amsterdam transfer. And a fellow accomplice was supposedly arrested with a bomb in his bag after the flight landed in Detroit.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/commenter_says_he_was_aboard_n.html
Leave Obama alone. He’s on vacation!
Napolitano is a joke, homeland security is security for terrorist.
No passport. And Indian handler for the Amsterdam airport transfer.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/commenter_says_he_was_aboard_n.html
If this story has any validity, the worldwide airport security network is a failure.
I'm having no trouble. Subscriber, though. That might make a difference.
It’s a shame that the passengers on that plane didn’t think to just snap the neck of that scumbag terrorist and instead of investigators sifting through ‘evidence’, they could have just left the whole kit and kaboodle to the local coroner.
Check people coming into the hospital. An “light” check, probably just a visual presence.
Check people coming onto the floor. A much harder check. At elevators and stairs. ID, reason, etc.
A sterile area around his room. No other patients for 6 or 8 room in each direction down the halls. No one gets in without very proper vetting. For example, a hospital ID is not sufficient. Why are you here? Someone from the medical staff to personally vouch for them.
Then, as quickly as possible, move him to a jail medical ward.
I’m a subscriber and I’m in. I just closed and reopened by browser is all.
# Flight 253 suspect was seen injecting fluid from syringe into substance after he emerged from jet’s bathroom, source tells NBC. 21 minutes ago from BreakingNews Headquarters
Too much work just kill the bastard
Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald shot Kennedy.
And we should be concerned why?????
How can I consider this a security breach? I hope something happens to him and a reporter is more likely to protect his brethren than do anything to him.
Waterboard the guy for information THEN smother him with a pillow dripping in bacon grease.
This is a non-story. A reporter tried to get close and was stopped. He then writes a story about himself and how lax security is, based on what might have happened had he not been stopped.
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