Posted on 09/28/2009 11:33:00 AM PDT by holy joe
Unbelievable.
While serving up caf and decaf, the java guy was secretly working to commit mass murder.
Cream and sugar with your terrorist attack, madam? Glazed or jelly donut with your bomb blast, sir?
The recent arrest of suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi reminds us all of the important role surveillance plays in safeguarding our people and our nation.
Zazi is in custody on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. He was accused last week of conspiring to launch a bombing attack in America with the help of some common beauty supplies and insidious training from al-Qaida in Pakistan.
The terrorism suspect maintains that he was not part of a terrorist cell, according to his attorney, Arthur Folsom.
The 24-year-old Afghan immigrant worked as a vendor-cart operator in Lower Manhattan. He sold coffee and donuts...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
But it’s still racism to profile and regardless, if they blow us up first...we can’t blow them up. That would be wrong and immoral. Do we want Europeans to dislike us again????/s
OH WOW! Now that was funny! Thanks for a badly needed laugh!
bttt
Obummer is blind to what America needs.
USSID 18 is getting harder and harder to interpret. Is Comrade Obama to be considered a U.S. Person or a foreign agent?
Law enforcement could do such things before the PATRIOT Act.
What I - as well as the author - have no idea of is if the investigative techniques used here were via the PATRIOT Act or any of the other numerous powers available to law enforcement before 9/11.
According to documents filed in New York federal court, Zazi and others had taken a Qatar Airlines flight to Pakistan in August 2008. While there, he allegedly e-mailed himself notes on how to make and handle bombs.
Whether the stuff he was messing around with was in sufficient quantity to bring down a building, or just wreak havoc on mass transit, they don't say. With the peroxide and acetone it sounds like he was trying to make the so called "mother of Satan" explosive TATP. He could easily have blown himself up.
Prior to the Patriot Act you could get a warrant to wire tap a specific phone or line only. Now you can get a warrant to wire tap a person.
With disposable cell phones being readily available, this is the only way to listen in on terrorists over time.
I am concerned that this power is now in the hands of America-hating idiots, but it was sorely needed post 9/11.
“He could easily have blown himself up. “
Good.
Sorely needed and wisely used.
No, bad that it didn’t happen!
WRONG!
Local, state and federal law enforcement had all the tools they needed to catch this guy BEFORE 9/11 and the so-called “Patriot Act”.
The neo-cons, closet Bush/Cheney “big government conservatives” and the liberals, still controlling the federal bureaucracy, now have even better tools and official (but lame) excuses to harass ordinary law-abiding gunowners under the guise of fighting the so-called “war on terror”.
This arrest is NOT a validation of the so-called “Patriot Act.”
This can’t be right....I remember all the outrage, accusations against conspiracy boooosh, and Obama deriding the patriot act........
Oh wait, that was before Obama was ‘selected’...
You can also make a liquid explosive with that combination that is much easier to handle and won’t blow your face off before you can actually use it. However, it also has less power. The guy who blew himself up in the parking lot of the football game(forget which one)was using TATP but of course he wasn’t a terrorist according to the FBI and Bush administration.
How’s your fruit vendor doing these days?
Wouldn’t he have to be a U.S. citizen to be considered a “U.S. Person”?...
Actually no, by USSID 18 standards a U.S. Person is someone here legally, or a U.S. citizen overseas. Comrade Obamas status still hasn’t been determined.
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