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Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist’
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Posted on 12/29/2009 6:42:41 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama Describes Nigerian As ‘Isolated Extremist’ Tuesday, December 29, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice.

The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab lived in Yemen for two different periods of time -- a year from 2004-2005 and again from August-December this year.

And a statement posted online Monday by Al-Qaeda in Yemen (also known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) said its “manufacturing sector” had provided Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with the device he took onboard the aircraft. (The United States has not yet authenticated the Web posting, but Abdulmutallab's connection to Yemen is not in doubt.)

Obama, in recounting what happened on Christmas day, also used the word “allegedly” to describe the incident. The president says he’s asked his aides to “continue monitoring the situation.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulmutallab; bho44; flight253
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To: Sub-Driver

Uhhhhh, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS BEHIND THAT CURTAIN, Uhhhh, I SAID PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS BEHIND THAT CURTAIN, uhhh, I am the great and powerful oz, uhhh, uhhhh.


41 posted on 12/29/2009 7:08:49 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Sub-Driver

IMPEACH OBAMA!


42 posted on 12/29/2009 7:11:28 AM PST by cblue55
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To: cblue55

If this guy had no support, where did he get $3000Plus to fly from Yemen to Ghana to Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit?
Cash.
We have a list of known or suspected terrorists. They need to be placed on the no-fly list and let the ACLU scream..if they are in the UK or US..let them go to court. If they are outside the US..let them stay there. Time to grow a spine..maybe more of them would be ratted out if they became a liability for their whole community.


43 posted on 12/29/2009 7:16:17 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: marstegreg
If he was alone, who helped him onto the plane?

And where was the guy with the camera "calmly" filming on the plane? And what about the guy they led off in handcuffs after questioning him about the dog hitting on his luggage and why would the officials evacuate the waiting area telling the passengers it wasn't safe (the same couple was interviewed on FOX this morning said that)?

44 posted on 12/29/2009 7:20:27 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Sub-Driver
He's an isolated extremist who trains with other isolated extremists as part of the religion of isolated extremists which wants to kill everyone who isn't an isolated extremist.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

45 posted on 12/29/2009 7:20:59 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Russ
I wonder where he was “trained”?

I'm sure it's all in those college papers when he was a "student." Later, of course, it was at Ayers' kitchen table.

46 posted on 12/29/2009 7:26:03 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Sub-Driver

wouldn’t it be great if someone could hack his teleprompter and have him say “nothing to see here. move along.”


47 posted on 12/29/2009 7:26:17 AM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Per Clintonian logic, now that this terrorist is holed up in a jail cell he *is* an isolated extremist...


48 posted on 12/29/2009 7:32:31 AM PST by mikrofon (Blame it on TOTUS)
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To: maddog55
he was the only one on-board the aircraft so therefore he is an isolated extremist.

Perhaps isolated as in the only terrorist sitting in his seat but not so isolated on board. See #44 below.

49 posted on 12/29/2009 7:35:18 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is just another example of a “Stand Alone Complex” which is just as bad and he is just as guilty as if he went and trained with KSM before attempting his attack.

Isolated incident just takes the blame away from the larger religion/political machine that is militant iSlam which is what is inspiring such acts.


50 posted on 12/29/2009 7:36:15 AM PST by GraceG
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To: All

OBAMA NEEDS TO BE RUN OUT OF OFFICE
HE IS A FOOL AND AN INCOMPETENT MORON
Worst of all he IS the enemy


51 posted on 12/29/2009 7:38:16 AM PST by sonic109 (and...what are we going to do about it ? NOTHING ?..so shut up and take it !)
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To: The Comedian

>> He’s an isolated extremist who trains with other isolated extremists as part of the religion of isolated extremists which wants to kill everyone who isn’t an isolated extremist. <<

Couldn’t have said it any better myself.


52 posted on 12/29/2009 7:38:38 AM PST by GraceG
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To: Happyinmygarden

Sure, the WTC attack was an act of isolated extremism. After all they only hit the twin towers a few times.


53 posted on 12/29/2009 7:42:03 AM PST by jazminerose
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To: Sub-Driver
I just watched his speech. My reaction:

1. The man is a Muslim. He never said “Muslim” once because he wants to hide that most obvious fact.

2. We are on our own when flying. He and his Security team see us as expendable, unwashed scum and infidels.

3. Stay off of airplanes until they start strip searching Muslims. They are now getting on planes with plastic explosives and our Muslim president will not dare offend them. He would much rather see us and our children get killed.

4. This president is a one term disaster, and we have yet to see the worst consequences born of his hatred for the US. We have three more years to get slaughtered.

54 posted on 12/29/2009 7:42:47 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: mikrofon
Well according to the Clintonian logic that allowed him to escape perjury charges, “there *is* no sexual relationship” is absolutely true, in some context, unless the woman in question was THEN and THERE performing a sexual act upon him, a sexual act that an Arkansas State Trooper and then the White House official position claim - is not actually sex.

How many “isolated extremists” have complex bomb making skills? He didn't build the bomb himself, nor pay for his plane ticket himself, nor announce responsibility for his act by himself.

He was an isolated extremist, who joined an organization of extremists, and now he is an “isolated” extremist in a jail cell.

55 posted on 12/29/2009 7:44:17 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now on Drudge: Yemen minister: We have 300 al Qaeda militants planning attacks...

Abdul is an isolated extremist...with 300 of his closest isolated friends.


56 posted on 12/29/2009 7:48:05 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Shhhh ..... don’t say “Muslim”.

Mohammed Obamma needs to resign and get the “F” out of our country, and take his dealth cult worhiping Muzzies with him to Indonesia or Kenya.


57 posted on 12/29/2009 8:00:35 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: longun45

“janet incompetano”

I think you nailed that one...great, a good laugh amid the ruin the nation will be with her and the chief jerk in charge. By his definition, I guess Hitler was an isolated Nazi too, Tojo and isolated militarist, Stalin, an isolated Bolzhevic, and Carter, an isolated idiot.


58 posted on 12/29/2009 8:17:58 AM PST by Mouton
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To: Sub-Driver
The Official US Position regarding Islamic Terroism


59 posted on 12/29/2009 8:24:01 AM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: The Comedian

If that’s the case, make this isolated extremist an example to other isolated extremists who think it’s a good idea to blow up planes.


60 posted on 12/29/2009 9:08:30 AM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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