Trying to pass this obvious west African off as a Sudanese would be like trying to pass a Tongan off as a Swede.
Pitiful.
yea sure Janet, out of context.
Thanks for posting the ***NEWLY RELEASED PIC OF ABDUL!!***
/sarc
Yeah, an “extensive review.....dats de ticket. Henceforth, if I see an Islamic mo fo on my flight, off I go.
Her political and public life is OVER!!!
Her political and public life is OVER!!!
Trying to pass this obvious west African off as a Sudanese would be like trying to pass a Tongan off as a Swede.
Undated photo, yet it appears to be a mugshot from some previous encounter with law enforcement.....
Guess Rahm finally figured out how to give us more socialisms by using this “crisis”. Apparently Janet was not in the “never let a crisis go to waste” Facebook fan group.
Obama has made America less protected from terror attacks.
His father was a rich banker in Nigeria. Led onto the plane by his handler, a well-dressed man. No passport. Security was intentionally bypassed.
This idiot was part of a training drill that went live. In the words of Lee Harvey Oswald, “So that’s it I’m the patsy.” Another big scare to bring on more repression and more New World Order.
What the hell are these people doing anyway? What are they being paid to do? Sit on their hands? How come each time something happens they have to have an investigation into what went wrong? For God’s sakes woman....do your job!!! You are certainly being well compensated for your job and your title so...why arent’ you on top of everything? Who is running the show anyway????
Just DO YOUR DAMNED JOB!!!! If you are not capable then for God’s sakes step down and let someone who can take it over. One of these days we are going to lose a lot more people because of the incompetencies of those “supposedly” in charge and keeping us safe.
Bring back George Bush. he may not have done everything right but on the War on Terror he was on top of his game and RESPECTED because he gave the terrorists what for and didn’t want to sit down and have tea and crumpets with them.
They are out to KILL US ALL. What in thee hell else do we have to know about that?????? They want us dead and yet we treat them with full health care (which our own people will have to fight for when they get sick)when they are wounded in an attempt like the other day LESS we hurt someone’s feelings. To hell with that. WAKE UPPPPPP AMERICA!!!! We are fighting for our very survival!!!
In this case Yemen.
If the bomber flies from a known jihadist haven, they will much more likely get searched.
If every country that originates a flight has a solid ability to stamp visas and passports, we can then track the bombers route.
In this case, the bomber flew from Yemen to Ethiopia to Ghana to Nigeria to Netherlands to Detroit, carrying the bomb the whole time, five security check opportunities, all defeated.
Why Ethiopia? Because it is easy to enter Ethiopia from Yemen with out ID or a visa, by claiming they are Somali.
Somalis are granted automatic entry to Yemen without passport, to make it easier for migrant workers to travel through the Middle East, and ID requirements are minimal.
Just like Mexicans coming to the US and getting driver's licenses and fake ID's.....Still happening here, can you imagine how easy it is to do in the Middle East/Africa?
Until every passenger on every international flight is required to have a legitimate passport that gets stamped, and a legitimate visa to enter the destination country we cannot stop the movement of jihadists and bombers.
Since Yemen is so accessible by boat from Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan, it has a deliberately open border that has allowed Yemen to make money being the "Labor Ready" capitol of the Middle East and Africa for ages, formerly the center of the slave trade that still operates.
“Taken out of context”?!
CROWLEY: So, just to finish up on the question– I do want to talk to you about security measures — but do you think — has there been any evidence of the Al Qaida ties that this suspect has been claiming?
NAPOLITANO: Right now, that is part of the criminal justice investigation that is ongoing, and I think it would be inappropriate to speculate as to whether or not he has such ties.
What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred on the Northwest Airlines flight. We instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas, both here in the United States and in Europe, where this flight originated.
So the whole process of making sure that we respond properly, correctly and effectively went very smoothly.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shifts her message from the Sunday shows. AP: ‘A day after saying the system worked, Napolitano backtracked, saying her words had been taken out of context. ‘Our system did not work in this instance,’ she said on NBC’s ‘Today’ show. ‘No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.’’
On CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ yesterday, she told Candy Crowley: ‘One thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked.’ On ABC’s ‘This Week’, she told Jake Tapper: ‘[O]nce the incident occurred, the system worked.’
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Napolitanos_reversal.html?showall
UMAR FAROUK ABDULMUTALLAB
His father, a prominent Nigerian banker and former government official, warned the US embassy in Abuja in October that his son had developed radical views and might have travelled to Yemen. But officials did not revoke his two-year multiple-entry visa, which was issued in June 2008.
Ms Napolitano meanwhile said the aviation security system had worked “very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days”, prompting widespread criticism from members of Congress and counter-terrorism experts.
But in interviews with US media on Monday, the homeland security secretary said her comment had been taken out of context and that she had instead been referring to the system of notifying other flights as well as law enforcement on the ground about the incident.
“And that’s why we are asking - how did this individual get on the plane? Why wasn’t the explosive material detected? What do we need to do to change?”
Ms Napolitano told CNN that she something had gone “awry” when someone like Mr Abdulmutallab did not have his visa revoked and was allowed to fly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8432934.stm