Posted on 05/03/2010 5:46:41 PM PDT by kristinn
CBS News is reporting the Pakistani-American allegedly tied by forensic evidence to the Times Square bombing attempt last Saturday is "familiar" to the Obama administration:
A source told CBS News that investigators are looking at a possible suspect, a Pakistani American, in the botched car bombing incident near Times Square. The source said forensic evidence uncovered in the vehicle led them to a Middle Eastern man’s name that was familiar to counter terrorism investigators.
Fox News reported the Obama administration knows the person of interest recently returned from Pakistan:
Federal authorities have identified a person of interest in Saturday night's Times Square bomb attempt -- a naturalized American citizen who was in Pakistan for several months and returned to the United States recently, investigative sources told Fox News.
...Sources say that evidence includes international phone calls made by the person of interest, who has not been identified publicly.
The Obama administration's familiarity with the person of interest is in keeping with recent failures by the Obama administration to stop terror attacks on American soil by those known to the administration to have suspected ties to overseas Muslim terrorist elements:
A 23-year-old convert to Islam with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said.
The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, reportedly had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested there for using a Somali passport. The probe was in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, according to ABC News.
While there, Muhammad — a U.S. citizen from Memphis who is a convert to Islam and was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe — studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, Jihadwatch.org reported.
Muhammad told authorities that he approached the recruiting center in Little Rock by car on Monday and started shooting at two soldiers in uniform, according to a police report.
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that (Fort Hood massacre terrorist) Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with an individual associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
Washington Post, December 27, 2009:
A Nigerian man charged Saturday with attempting to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day was listed in a U.S. terrorism database last month after his father told State Department officials that he was worried about his son's radical beliefs and extremist connections, officials said.
The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was added to a catch-all terrorism-related database when his father, a Nigerian banker, reported concerns about his son's "radicalization and associations" to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a senior administration official said. Abdulmutallab was not placed on any watch list for flights into the United States, however, because there was "insufficient derogatory information available" to include him, another administration official said.
Is the Times Square bombing attempt another example of the Obama administration's failure to connect the dots and stop yet another terrorist attack on American soil on their watch? So far, the evidence does not look good for Obama and his administration.
I wonder if this was one of his pals from college or someone he knew from the time he spent in Pakistan. Nothing would surprise me.
[Found before a crumbling statue of one-term Emperor-by-Trick Barack Hussein Obama
in a glass filled desert, comprising a land once known as the ‘America’]
"We first heard of an undocumented man named Obama ,
Who denied all the confusion with a Kenyan and Osama.
At every turn, he worked to have our country defeated,
With every enemy, he conspired to have us deleted,
Sneered he, 'If death panels don't work, my 57 states will just bomb ya'."
Son of the cross-legged guy on the couch with Obama during college??
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No way. he doesn’t have kids and has never married. His sexual preferences never changed. He still likes men.
I know this goes without saying, but you never heard even a suggestion of Muslim extremist over the weekend (at least I didn’t). Not a peep.
But every other theory was discussed or alluded to.
I am afraid we have grown soft and the One has expidited that mentality. The current administration must have most of the MSM following a list of do’s and don’ts when it comes to reporting, and have threatened them with reduced access to their savior The One.
And this “foreign connection”....what the hell is that suppose to mean? Nevermind, I know.
Son of the cross-legged guy on the couch with Obama during college??
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No way. he doesn’t have kids and has never married. His sexual preferences never changed. He still likes men.
I believe that sooner or later we will bear a successful attack and Obama won't do a damn thing to prevent it or follow the leads and identify and punish the planners.
It's more likely than not that we will suffer a successful terrorist attack on Obama's watch. He has weakened our national defense and our national security, and he has announced to the world that he won't use nukes no matter what happens. He is afraid to even call terrorists "terrorists."
Maybe deep inside he thinks America deserves to be punished for the sins it has committed (according to the left).
He had reduced anti-terror funding to New York last year. I just put up a piece about this today. NYC is the one place that you would think should get a lot more protection.
Yes, I’m aware of those changes the Obama administration made. That’s why I think that deep down he wants America to be punished for imagined sins.
Oh yes.
“Familiar”? They guy likely is known to nobama who probably appointed him a Czar of something or other. What a foolish and reckless administration. When the bombs go boom and blow you and your children to a bloody pulp just what will nobama say then?
It is so “BIDEN” Infuriating that a MUSLIM RADICAL TERRORIST is sitting in “OUR WHITE HOUSE” destroying OUR AMERICA as a Kenyan Village Idiot and Con-Artist and Laughing about it! and No Business Person would ever Hire this Jerk and Treasonous Traitor to be a Janitor in their Own Business! REVOLTING! Doesn’t Academia understand they are the First to Go to Hell! THe Jews are finally understanding they Voted for HITLER II after only a year of this Hell! Wake Up, AMERICA!!
Great report, as always.
I noticed BO hasn't taken his kids to see the “Lion King” in NYC and the “date night” with Michelle was so publicized that now they can avoid the city entirely by saying “there was too much criticism so we won't do that again”. I'm very cynical anymore.
Bush kept us safe for 8 years......I feft secure as possible when he was in the White House.
Mr. B. Hussein strikes again! Sics the FBI on the new terroists - rednecks - for talking smack about stuff (pre-crimes) and lets a real terrorist set a bomb to go off in times square. Are we reliving the Clinton Admin. or what?????! If they have nukes, this is the chance to get them off on Obami’s great satan! He’ll love it!
“No No No No No! Not God Bless America! God Damn America. It’s in the Bible!...”
Rev. Wright: B. Hussein’s racist “minister” for twenty years
Did they do it on an Indonesian passport or something?
"To the Muslims, I say, I will blow them, should the political winds shift in an unfavorable direction" -- Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm (translated into the vernacular).
Cheers!
Did they do it on an Indonesian passport or something?
"To the Muslims, I say, I will blow them, should the political winds shift in an unfavorable direction" -- Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm (translated into the vernacular).
Cheers!
GREAT post. Thank you.
I doubt it. I think it was someone in Gitmo that they let out.
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