US Official: Extremists Seek New Ways to Attack US

New York Times ^ | January 2, 2010

[rdl6989]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top counterterrorism official is warning that al-Qaida and other extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.

National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter says the failed Christmas Day attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner is the starkest reminder of that threat.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I didn’t read the story, only the headline.

Is this about the left wing of the Democrat party?

[RummyChick]

not according to the Googly eyed incompentent Obama official

[Repeal The 17th]

No, ya’ think?

[RummyChick]

LOLOL...isn’t that the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They forgot to put Obama in the headline.

[sionnsar]

Do ya think?????

[don-o]

Next thing you know the Times will headline “Sun is rising in the West - setting in the East”

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Yes, they could have added, “Obama to convene top experts to discuss solutions.”

Happy New Year, RummyChick.

[Diogenesis]

[bergmeid]

That is a rather broad statement. I take it as a CYA.

[gwilhelm56]

**No, ya’ think?**

GMTA

[john drake]

Old news; I’m waiting for when we decide to do some serious, mass destruction of their operations world wide, simultaneously, so we cut off all the heads of this hydra. Not under this president, though.

[TaMoDee]

WOW! I hope he tells his clueless leader, J. Incompentano,
about this!

[Trod Upon]

Is this about the left wing of the Democrat party?

You say that as though there's a part of the dhimmicratic party that isn't rabidly left wing.

[Diogenesis]

Dr. Krauthammer: “Obama reassured the nation that this "suspect" had been charged. Reassurance? The
president should be saying: We have captured an enemy combatant -- an illegal
combatant under the laws of war: no uniform, direct attack on civilians -- and now to
prevent future attacks, he is being interrogated regarding information he may have about
al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Instead, Abdulmutallab is dispatched to some Detroit-area jail and immediately lawyered
up. At which point -- surprise! -- he stops talking.

This absurdity renders hollow Obama's declaration that "we will not rest until we find all
who were involved." Once we've given Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, we have
gratuitously forfeited our right to find out from him precisely who else was involved,
namely those who trained, instructed, armed and sent him.

This is all quite mad even in Obama's terms. He sends 30,000 troops to fight terror
overseas, yet if any terrorists come to attack us here, they are magically transformed from
enemy into defendant.

The logic is perverse. If we find Abdulmutallab in an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen,
where he is merely preparing for a terror attack, we snuff him out with a Predator -- no
judge, no jury, no qualms. But if we catch him in the United States in the very act of mass
murder, he instantly acquires protection not just from execution by drone but even from
interrogation. “

[stayathomemom]

The left has tried to paint these terrorists as poor, disadvantaged people who hate us because of our wealth, when in reality, they are well off, intelligent, and are obtaining degrees at Western universities in science and engineering to advance their murderous plans.

[mazda77]

Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone. Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone.

Just how fargin stupid is the general public to the realities of security and terrorist threats that this frikin Einstein can make a statement like that and hope to be viewed as an expert in his field?

Makes one who has been in the heat of it to want to reach out and pinch his head off like one would do to a mole cricket.

[mazda77]

Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone. Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone.

Just how fargin stupid is the general public to the realities of security and terrorist threats that this frikin Einstein can make a statement like that and hope to be viewed as an expert in his field?

Makes one who has been in the heat of it to want to reach out and pinch his head off like one would do to a mole cricket.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Ha. Good one.

I’m still holding out some hope for the “Reagan Democrats.”

[Clint Williams]

I’m waiting for when we decide to do some serious, mass destruction of their operations world wide, simultaneously, so we cut off all the heads of this hydra.

How about: the next time one of yours attempts to take down one of our places you will no longer have to worry about where to face Mecca, or about visiting Medina. They will be all around you and with you, forever.

Of course, there will be a little bit of extra ionizing radiation involved.