Posted on 12/29/2009 5:33:46 AM PST by captjanaway
The year on the national security front did not end well with a Christmas Day effort to set a Detroit-bound plane on fire. This is not a good news story. The system failed. The U.S. government had a number of red flags about the would-be fire starter, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, but failed to revoke his visa, place him on the no-fly last or flag him for additional screening.
Heritage homeland security analyst Jena Bake McNeil reports, “[o]n December 25, a Nigerian student attempted to ignite a mixture of powder and liquid on a Northwest Airlines flight landing in Detroit, Michigan. Passengers helped to stop the suspect from carrying out his plot after the device failed to fully detonate, marking the 28th foiled terror plot against the United States since 9/11.”
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If his own father repeatedly reporting him to authorities was meaningless to them, what good does it do for any citizen to report suspicious people and activities? They need to screen more old white grannies, can’t do anything as rational as “profiling” for people who actually fit all the characteristics of almost every terrorist heretofore.
The system worked before it didn’t.
The system didn’t work at Ft. Hood either. What are all the billions for? (I ain’t that naive)
re: effort to set a Detroit-bound plane on fire
Hate to be nit picker, but he attempted to blow the plane out of the sky. The fact it caught fire was a fluke of failure.
It looks like the entire United States Government “security” apparatus is simply another jobs program for the connected. No real output needed.
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