Posted on 01/02/2010 5:07:58 AM PST by stevie_d_64
HONOLULU (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday it appeared the man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas was a member of al Qaeda and had been trained and equipped by the Islamic militant network.
Defending his administration's counterterrorism efforts amid scathing Republican criticism, Obama said he received preliminary results of the reviews he ordered into air travel screening procedures and a "terrorist watchlist system" and expected final results in the days to come.
Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, had called for an immediate study of what he termed "human and systemic failures" that allowed 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to get on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25 allegedly with explosives in his clothes.
"The investigation into the Christmas Day incident continues, and we're learning more about the suspect," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, posted on the White House website on Friday local time.
"It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group -- al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America," Obama said.
The president's comments were his most explicit to date tying the suspect with the al Qaeda group.
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I really bet this hurt to release, for the author, much less the President...
“Welcome to the party pal(s)!”
WOW! The messiah ONLY needed a week to connect the dots. I’m impressed!
Silly people. Don’t they know that the president has declared that the Global War On Terror is over? If these people are not careful, they will end up in a prison in Illinois, near the Mississippi River, where the locals are excited to have jobs guarding these terrorists... eh, I mean, man-made disaster makers...
After 7 days ....you finally figured it out ....NOT BAD !!
"The Suspect". LOL.
Wow, I thought it was the Lutherans! Old Obama is sure on the ball!
"the man suspected of allegedly trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas was allegedly a member of al Qaeda and had allegedly been trained and allegedly equipped by the suspected Islamic militant religious extemist network.
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zer0 decided al qaeda was responsible because it was politically expedient for him to do so for the moment.
The holidays skewed the release of polling units to tell him what to think based on what the public perception was to tell him what it was. When the pollsters figured out that 99.99999% of the public figured out on December 26th that this loon was connected to AQ, they had no chance of spinning it any other way.
wonder how he connected those dots?
I know he’s got an incredible IQ and all, but don’t you think he might be jumping to a conclusion here?
Regardless, he is mirandized and lawyered up.
Why was the president so quick to pronounce that this was an ‘isolated’ incident before, when all the facts at that time pointed to what he is now saying? It seems to me he should have kept his mouth shut if he did not know.
Since most of us figured it out the day it happened, he appears rather slow.
Yeah. By reading the reports of his dad ratting him out to the officials. Great work!
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