Description: Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to U.N. John Bolton on possible discovery of first Al Qaeda cell in U.S. since 9/11
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/26451053/terrorist-threat.htm#q=NYC+Teorror+raids
The first 2 or 3 minutes of this video is relevant....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342056/posts
Police Search House of Colorado Man Suspected of Links to Terror Plot After New York Trip
Fox News ^ | Sept. 16, 2009 | Fox News
Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:22:53 AM by AuntB
AURORA, Colo. — Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a suburban Denver man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida, carting away several boxes of evidence.
FBI special agent Kathleen Wright confirmed that agents had a search warrant for the home of Najibullah Zazi. Residents of neighboring apartments were evacuated as a precaution, Wright said.
Zazi denies that he’s a central figure in a terrorism investigation that fed fears of a possible bomb plot and led to several police raids in New York City on Monday.
Agents left Zazi’s apartment with at least six boxes. One was labeled “swabs,” and others were marked “fragile” and “glass.”
Agents also escorted three women and a man from the apartment. The man appeared to be in his early 20s and had a beard, but an AP reporter confirmed it was not Najibullah Zazi. Two of the women covered their faces with headscarves, and the third used a canvas chair to shield her face. All were driven away in an SUV.
The task force also feared Zazi may be involved in a potential plot involving homemade hydrogen peroxide-based explosives like those cited in an intelligence warning issued Monday, said the officials, who spoke on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation.
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Mike Cutler sent a note along with this article:
The article notes that Zazi had a “Green Card,” that is to say that he is a lawful immigrant. I have no information as to how he obtained his lawful immigrant status because the fraud rate in the process by which aliens are granted lawful immigrant status is fraught with fraud. USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is the division of DHS that is charged with adjudicating applications for all of the various immigration benefits including conferring resident alien status and United States citizenship upon aliens and although they process more than 6 million such applications each and every year, they only have about 600 investigators to conduct field investigations to determine the bona fides of the application and the material facts concerning those applications.
Of course, in this case, I have no information as to how Mr. Zazi obtained his purported resident alien status, although the article makes it sound as though he has been living in the United States for many years, but certainly I hope that those who are investigating him are delving into this issue.
As for the statement that a “background check” was conducted by the authorities of Colorado, I have often noted that a background check is not comparable to a background investigation. A background check generally just involves running an applicants fingerprints and stated name on an application through a computer database to check for known individuals. If the person in question uses a fictitious name, the value of running the name is worthless. Most terrorists know that it is essential to keep a “low profile” as an embedding tactic. They know that to “hide in plain sight” they must not get arrested or have contact with law enforcement so that if they then apply for a license their fingerprints will come up “clean.”
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Thanks:) Working n lurking...will check it later
He's uses his full portion of commonsense and has his feet firmly planted on the ground.
I watched that interview this morning. As usual, Bolton makes sense when all about him seem to need a clue.