“Why is this one different?”
Because this was linked directly to Al Qaeda. It’s a semantic game that they are playing. Bush at least recognized that Al Qaeda was not the only terrorist outfit in the game. That’s why he announced that any nation that harbored terrorist groups was to be treated as the enemy.
But, not only are there terrorist groups, there are lone wolf jihadists. These lone wolves have struck numerous times in the US. From the 19 year old son of a Bosnian mujihadeen who shot up the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, to John Muhammed, the Beltway Sniper, to the guy who shot up Fort Hood, to the guy who shot up the El Al airlines counter in Los Angeles, to however many attacks on synagogues there have been. Their motives are exactly the same as Al Qaeda’s, but no one will call it what it is — radical Islamic terrorism.
first hand accounts..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/6889891/Detroit-terror-attack-he-was-screaming-about-Afghanistan.html
no way they could sweep this under the rug..and that POS POTUS should have bee told right away