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Awlaki personally blessed Detroit attack (the imam who counseled the Ft Hood shooter)
The Washington Times ^ | 29 December 2009 | Victor Morton

Posted on 12/29/2009 4:31:59 PM PST by SE Mom

The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.

The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI's interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad training during interrogation by the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by Mr. al-Awlaki.

"It was Awlaki who indoctrinated him," the official said. "He was told, 'You are going to be the tip of the spear of the Muslim nation.'"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulmutallab; alawlaki; anwar; imam; islam; jihad; muslim; rop; spongeumarbombpants; trop; wot
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Before this is all over, let's hope Janet Incompetano is job-hunting.
1 posted on 12/29/2009 4:32:00 PM PST by SE Mom
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To: kristinn; onyx; STARWISE; Bahbah; holdonnow; Ernest_at_the_Beach

The KnickerBomber was....blessed.


2 posted on 12/29/2009 4:34:24 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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The ‘tip of the spear’?

It sucks to be the ‘tip of the spear’... especially when it gets burned by 6 foot flames...


3 posted on 12/29/2009 4:37:33 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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Yeah..and the grafts he will receive for those burns will be paid for by our money..


4 posted on 12/29/2009 4:40:06 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

I’m still at a loss as to why there are so many of these idiots that will blow themselves up at the direction of leaders who safely sit at home grooming their beards and making hysterical videos. What kind of an idiot puts on exploding underpants.


5 posted on 12/29/2009 4:42:52 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: SE Mom

This will keep her off of the Supreme Court, I believe, which is good for us all.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 4:44:46 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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It sucks to be the ‘tip of the spear’... especially when it gets burned by 6 foot flames...

Umar Farouk was confused...he wanted a "circumnavigation", but his Yemeni mentors sent him on a "circumcision".

7 posted on 12/29/2009 4:45:06 PM PST by rfp1234 (R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
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'You are going to be the tip of the spear of the Muslim nation.'

"You'll be at the foreskin of jihadi technology".

8 posted on 12/29/2009 4:47:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
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I’m sure President Bush and his generals are making plans to deal with this as we speak...

Whoops. Whoa. Flash from the past.

For a moment there I hallucinated I was still living in America.

Now back to our regularly scheduled socialist surrender...


9 posted on 12/29/2009 4:49:20 PM PST by samtheman
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To: SE Mom

Janet Nincompoopitano!


10 posted on 12/29/2009 4:50:05 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama are terrorists.)
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SE Mom, I couldn’t be less surprised if you told me Obama wasn’t on our side.

The disgust just keeps coming.


11 posted on 12/29/2009 4:50:20 PM PST by onyx
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Years ago on Free Republic there was an intense discussion explaining that early indoctrination with the tenets of Islam seemed to lead to a later inability to think and reason logically.

I don't remember all the details, but the posts about this went on for many pages, and again & again examples were given to demonstrate the lack of logical thought in those who underwent early indoctrination.

So I suspect that there must be alot of material on the web about both the intellectual & negative psychological aspects of islam.

12 posted on 12/29/2009 4:51:05 PM PST by hennie pennie
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To: SE Mom

I mean “ISN’T on our side.”


13 posted on 12/29/2009 4:52:48 PM PST by onyx
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>> "the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect"

If the certainty of 'suspect' is equivalent, then how can there be any question about terrorism at Ft Hood?
14 posted on 12/29/2009 5:05:46 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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I’m hoping Awlaki is at the end of a hellfire missile, very shortly. We will be very happy to send him to allah.


15 posted on 12/29/2009 5:24:13 PM PST by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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I wonder if Obama has bought a clue yet?

The father of the terrorist reported his son to the embassy and CIA yet no one in this administration can figure it out yet.

16 posted on 12/29/2009 5:31:39 PM PST by tobyhill
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The embassy (state Department) and the CIA knew.....When did they know what; and when did they report what they knew to whom....

Time to file some freedom of information forms....Hope FOX, Drudge, Rush etc are on top of this.....


17 posted on 12/29/2009 5:46:07 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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“I’m hoping Awlaki is at the end of a hellfire missile, very shortly...”

I thought there was a story that said they killed him, oh we can hope.


18 posted on 12/29/2009 5:48:37 PM PST by smalltownslick
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To: SE Mom

Well, so much for Ozero’s remark that this is only an “isolated extremist”.


19 posted on 12/29/2009 6:04:07 PM PST by Gritty (Hasan was the perpetrator, but political correctness was his enabler every step of the way-Mk Steyn)
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To: SE Mom

Al-Awlaki is a walking argument for repealing the executive order banning assassinations.


20 posted on 12/29/2009 6:59:16 PM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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