"This is not the first time this group has targeted us."
Posted on 01/02/2010 7:46:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama drew a direct link Saturday between an al Qaeda group and a foiled attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.
In his Saturday morning radio address, Mr. Obama went further than he has in previous statements on the attack to connect the extremist group with the Dec. 25 attack. He pledged to work with officials in other nations to combat terrorism, including Yemen, where officials believe Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to destroy Northwest Flight 253, was schooled in terrorist techniques.
"We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. 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," Mr. Obama said in his address, a copy of which was released by the White House. He delivered the radio address from Hawaii, where he is vacationing this week.
"This is not the first time this group has targeted us."
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"This is not the first time this group has targeted us."
That’s perfect!!
Interesting that it took this poser a week to figure it out. Let’s pray that he never gets that 3 AM phone call. We will all be dead before he figures out what to do next.
We'll have to start calling him "Snappy" now, eh?
Who covered up the STOP SIGNs for the panty bomber??
The President sleeps with the moles.
This is the equivalent of FDR waiting until Christmas of ‘41 to tell us that we’d been hit by the Japanese.
Really?! WTF.
It’s only because his popularity is tanking. Nothing more.
Finally! Now, knowing our safety is in his hands, we can most assuredly relax and go about our business, as usual...what a relief this is.
“... Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies ...”
Freely translated, “we must now send billions and trillions of US dollars to Yemen to fight poverty ....”
I counted 15 “I”s. He also got in the obligatory dig at Bush through saying we had been focused on Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11. What a putz.
Yup
Uh? The next day Al Qeida of Arabia claimed credit.
I guess they don’t get radio transmissions over in Sunny Havaii.
Glad somebody rowed over to tell The One.
Those grappling with poverty and no education join AFFLIATES of Al Queda.
Then go on a suicide bomb terror mission.
Did I miss anything here folks?
LOL To myself.
“””We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty”””
So what does the fact that Yemen is a poor country have to do with Obama’s incompetence??
This is nothing more than a typical diversionary tactic by the leftist/marxists. They keep trying to use the mantra that terrorism is the result of poverty. Hardly works in the pantybomber case.
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