Posted on 01/06/2010 9:10:35 AM PST by Nachum
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Under the category of looks-like-about-12-days-too-late, the State Department has announced it is revoking the U.S. visa for suspected Nigerian underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
That will show him and who knows how many others that the Obama administration really means business.
The 23-year-old al-Qaeda-trained terrorist was on a terrorist watch list because he had traveled to Yemen for training. His father also warned U.S. officials he was dangerous. President Obama admitted Tuesday that U.S. intelligence experts knew much about the man but "failed to connect the dots" causing a "potentially disastrous" situation.
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The list, ping
SLAM THAT BARN DOOR SHUT!!!
AND, this is going to go on his permanent record, too. I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t result in double-secret probation as well.
The cows have escaped from the barn - now it’s time to close that barn door.
No Visa? Guess that means they intend to ship him back to Yemen.
I suppose this could work, though I have always favored the effectiveness of the “strongly-worded-statement”
The Obama people have to be feeling the heat when even the knee-pad wearing LA Times makes fun of them.
Maybe he’ll find some homegrown jihadette to marry him and confer permanent status, if that’s what he wants. Come to think of it, he might have some difficulty if the fire down below was as hot as intimated in the news coverage.
This would be funny if it weren’t so serious. I’m not flying anywhere until we have Republicans back in charge.
Did we really have to do this because he was on American soil?
Couldn't he have been kept in the International Zone of the airport, in the area before he would go through customs and immigration? While there, would he be considered to NOT be in the United States? I'm not saying that he should have been sent back to the Netherlands on the next plane out, but he could have been immediately sent to Guantanamo Bay, where we could then say that he was never legally in the United States at all, and so USA rights never entered into the picture at all.
Would that be a correct assumption?
-PJ
For his trial run in taking down an airliner plus the airport, nobama’s administration has revoked his visa????? After healing his private parts, paid for with our tax money, the 23 yr old will be given a civil trial. When will he be elegible for paroll?
Isn’t it great having Barney Fife as our president surrounded by the stooges! We are so screwed with these morons in charge.
What does the crickets-chirping Sociopath of State have to say about this?
Perhaps the poor jihadist can re-apply in the 2011 diversity visa lottery...
http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/
They announced this? Why announce it? Just quietly do it as a formality. This makes them look totally stupid. The Obama PR machine lumbers on. I think Obama should play a round of golf today to celebrate this amazing news.
“makes them sound stupid”. Well?
This is unconstitutional. The man is only a suspect and has not been proven guilty in a court of law. He is entitled to due process before any of his rights are revoked. (sarcasm off...)
LOL. But, usually politicians have some decent PR people who show them how to fool folks into believing they're smart.
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