Posted on 12/29/2009 3:51:39 PM PST by kristinn
Chris Wallace (filling in for Bret Baier)just reported that Fox News confirms that the CIA was tracking Northwest Airlines flight 253 bommber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab since August. He did not say more than that.
No wonder Obama spoke out again today about a systemic failure. He knew tis news was going to come out.
This terrorist getting through our defenses is going to be the responsibility of his administration, not President Bush's.
The Architect has had his day. Just go away, Karl.
I've seen it posted on this thread that it's death by a thousnad cuts. Well, this is like a mob necktie.
I guess he said he was going to "guard" polling places in Philly?
Cheers!
December 16 or later:
DECEMBER 16, 2009 : (MUTALLAB TRAVELS TO ETHIOPIA AND THEN GHANA WHERE THE RETURN TICKET FOR HIS TRIP TO DETROIT IS PURCHASED- BUT THE RETURN DESTINATION IS CHANGED FROM ACCRA IN GHANA TO LAGOS IN NIGERIA) The return ticket for his trip to Detroit, via Amsterdam, was bought at KLM’s office in Accra on December 16 for $2,831 (£1,770). Unusually for a potential suicide bomber, he took the trouble to change his return destination, replacing Ghana with Lagos. He arrived in Nigeria on Christmas Eve. .------------ "Abdulmutallab's bomb plans began with classroom defence of 9/11," Times Online ^ | 12/27/2009 | Dominic Kennedy
Sorry, NO! This is on Panetta and Obama. Leon should have known and if the renewed wall truly interfered, Panetta had an obligation under his oath to confront the President and resign, if necessary, in a loud and public manner. Hillary's hands are dirty too. Napolitano is a sick joke.
IMO... This was a serious reaction run... it wasn’t meant to go off.
Look for something bigger.
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I think that this self basting bomber has a verbal message to give someone, and he had to get the the USA. I am going to guess, his daddy will hire the best USA lawyer (probably provided by CAIR) to relay the message to.
So because the CIA and other agencies did NOTHING, the rest of the traveling public will have to put up with yet another layer of BS. Way to go folks.
the suspect was ushered on the plane with no passport
Fox News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwSH-9Dqgk&feature=player_embedded#
and was filmed on the flight. CIA? they helped faciltate this, so of course they knew about Mutallab. Yet another trumped up, falsifed excuse to go to war in Yemen and to usher in full-body scanners glabally to facilate the control grid.
They should have tracked the blue haired grandmas and their grandchildren.
Everyone knows these grannies are mean and ruthless. And the babies have a WMD in their diaper that would kill an al Qaeda terrorist.
Forget the guy with a turban with a fuse hanging out of his butt. He’s harmless.
Frisk the kid and grannie.
It’s PC.
Oddly enough, the US DEA made a bust the 16th in Ghana of 3 al Qaeda terrorists who were running drugs between Columbia's FARC and Africa. As per the usual Obama Admin policies, instead of sticking these terrorists in Gitmo they brought them right to NEW YORK to partake of our gloriously flawed and inadequate justice system along with all the free lawyering they can handle:
DECEMBER 16, 2009 WED : (GHANA : US DEA DRUG STING NABS AL QAEDA OPERATIVES OUMAR ISSA, HAROUNA TOURE' AND IDRISS ABELRAHMAN; THEY ARE SHIPPED TO NY-----THE DRUG SMUGGLING WAS INTENDED TO SUPPORT AL QAEDA, AL QAEDA IN THE MAGHREB & FARC ) Osama Bin Laden's terrorist organization has become increasingly reliant on organized crime, including cocaine smuggling, human trafficking and kidnapping, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Manhattan's federal court. The charges filed against three alleged al-Qaeda associates by the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan is the latest chilling evidence of a convergence between terrorism and organized crime. Oumar Issa, Harouna Touré and Idriss Abelrahman were snatched in Ghana on Wednesday by a Drug Enforcement Administration sting and shipped to New York, where they arrived on Friday to face charges of conspiracy to commit acts of narco-terrorism and providing material support to al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization. The arrests mark the first time that al-Qaeda associates have been charged with narco-terrorism offenses. * * * "It's pretty compelling evidence, but not the only evidence that has been growing that al-Qaeda and its affiliates are becoming more and more involved in the global drug trade to help fund their operations," says Michael Braun, former chief of operations at the DEA and a founder of Spectre Group International. "They have to pay for their operations somehow." (Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...-------Al-Qaeda's New Business Model: Cocaine And Human Trafficking Forbes Magazine ^ | 12/18/09 | Nathan Vardi Posted on Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:56:37 AM by AtlasStalled
DEA.gov - US DOJ.gov - Justice.gov - Press Release: “THREE AL QAEDA ASSOCIATES ARRESTED ON DRUG AND TERRORISM CHARGES” (SNIPPET: “...Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure, and Irdiss Abelrahman...” SNIPPET: “...charges of conspiracy to commit acts of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The charges stem from the defendants’ alleged agreement to transport cocaine through West and North Africa with the intent to support three terrorist organizations — Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (”AQIM”), and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or “FARC”). All three organizations have been designated by the United States Department of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”) (December 18, 2009)————————http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr121809.html [hat tip-Cindy]
I DEFINITELY think you’re onto something.
Since when do liberals ask to go on these trips?
Good question. I wondered the same thing.
well, in both cases a dyke was involved :)
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