Posted on 12/25/2009 3:15:34 PM PST by granite
Romulus, Mich. - A senior U.S. counterterror official says a passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit was planning to blow up the plane but the explosive device failed.
The official said the passenger was being questioned Friday evening. It was not immediately clear why the passenger wanted to attack the flight that was arriving from Amsterdam
(Excerpt) Read more at link.latimes.com ...
I'd rather they take a camel... in their own country.
I was just about to ping you to this story.
Unbelievable, eh? I don’t know if you heard Rep Peter King earlier- he was on FOX with Jamie Colby. He seems to have some inside knowledge about why Detroit might be a target- but he was very hesitant to go further than that...
What a nightmare- and apparently there’s some question about the type of explosive it was- something “new” that evaded detection- also- it may have come from Yemen.
Well, you don’t want the Mooselimbs to feel bad about themselves or they kill you.
Mary Christmas
ABC News named the suspect as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who was said to be an engineering student at University College of London. He was early today being quizzed by police and the FBI after he told them he had connections to al-Qaeda.
A senior intelligence official said: “He claimed the device was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used.”
Now that’s intriguing- “instructions about when it should be used...”
Thanks for the link- going to read up some more on this..
FOX is now doing a pre-recorded O’Reilly show so we’re getting nothing new from them for now.
Well, Detroit has a huge Muslim population. I missed the Peter King interview and I won’t have the TV back now until after the Charger game.
VP Cheney said we will get attacked by terrorists. I’ll bet Obama thought about Cheney’s words today.
It’s starting to look like there might be more than speculation regarding the Yemen-alQ threat to strike back at US for bombing al-Q in Yemen.
On Christmas, of all days? You'd think the Amish would know better.
Hmmm... maybe that American Airlines plane that cracked up in Jamaica yesterday wasn't weather related after all.
At this moment from the western beach house, Stoopid has just released the following statement.......
In an unfortunate incident which occured solely due to the incompetance of the previous administration.....uh, excuse me, Michelle(AKA Big Ass)needs me to go help with the sun tan application.....
a nigerian was trying to outdo the kenyan?
PING.....
Nothing important here, Robert Gates......
ROFL. Thanks for stoopid’s statement.
FOX has stopped live coverage but they are covering it live on CNN - so far rehashing what we know- they had Pete King on as well- he said there’s an odd circumstance when you have someone on a known terrorist list- but that same person is NOT on the no-fly list.
Also- just as an aside- the anchor on CNN keeps talking about “an extremist organization”...but he will NOT say Al Qaida out loud. He just says “extremist organization” over andf over..
“It was not immediately clear why the passenger wanted to attack the flight ... “ Associated Press
1.) Why does a rabid dog bite anything that crosses its path?
2.) Ain’t it great the AP hires people with mental disabilities?
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I've no idea what commenter 1 or 2 wrote, but I bet I would have agreed with them.
Maybe a Nigerian muslim would be less suspect....but again I heard on Fox that the guy was on the no fly list.
How did he even get on the plane!
They are discussing hydrogen peroxide bombs now.
Pathetic when they can’t spit out the words “al-Q.”
That would be Ali. He runs with the "don't jump to conclusion" crowd.
Ah!
Fox also reported that the US strikes had taken out the guy who trained or sponsored the Ft. Hood terrorist guy ????
first I had heard that.
So, Obamaoists - what about the increased terror threat level since the Yemen attacks by our good guys???
Do you miss those ridiculed (by you Obamaoists) Bush administration threat level colors now?
I bet most of our nation’s air travelers would have liked to have known the terrorist threat had been elevated...
A terrorist expert on Fox said the intelligence services had picked up increased “chatter” over the past six months - but nobody alerted the public - obviously.
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