Posted on 07/21/2013 5:47:14 AM PDT by Innovative
Speaking in unusual detail, (Transportation Security Administration chief ) Pistole offered specifics about an underwear bomb devised by a master al Qaeda bomb-maker in Yemen meant to be exploded in an airliner over the United States last year. The plot was foiled thanks to a double-agent inside al Qaeda's Yemen branch.
Pistole described the May 2012 bomb as "a next generation device" that was "new and improved in many respects" from the Christmas 2009 bomb. Designed by one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, Ibrahim al-Asiri, the device featured "a new type of explosive that we had never seen," Pistole said. "All of our explosive detection equipment... wasn't calibrated to detect that. And all of our 800 bomb-sniffing dogs had not been trained for that specific type."
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
I have a few comments:
1. Clearly the WOT is NOT over, just because Obama wants to stick his head in the sand and won't even use the term.
2. Spying on AQ works -- maybe that's what we should be concentrating on, instead of wasting time and effort on spying on ALL US citizens.
3. With all our advanced technology, how come AQ can come up with a "new type of explosive that we had never seen and our detection equipment wasn't calibrated to detect it"????!!!!!!!
4. Why is the TSA chief confirming all this in a news conference letting everyone, including Al Qaeda know this????!!!
Just trying to wear us down, as it were. So we no longer question the unlawful actions of the Police state.
Actually, I don’t believe one word of what this Obama bureaucrat says.
“Terrific!!!
I have a few comments:
1. Clearly the WOT is NOT over, just because Obama wants to stick his head in the sand and won’t even use the term.
2. Spying on AQ works — maybe that’s what we should be concentrating on, instead of wasting time and effort on spying on ALL US citizens.
3. With all our advanced technology, how come AQ can come up with a “new type of explosive that we had never seen and our detection equipment wasn’t calibrated to detect it”????!!!!!!!
4. Why is the TSA chief confirming all this in a news conference letting everyone, including Al Qaeda know this????!!!”
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Rampant ignorance.
Great. Now the TSA will make us strip down to our underwear.
Maybe it’s time to stop wearing underwear.
“The plot was foiled thanks to a double-agent inside al Qaeda’s Yemen branch”
Thanks for the info -
I’m sure the agent is thrilled
I’m going to fly “commando” from now on.
I don’t either. probably another misinformation dump to help PR. Question everything...
“Now the TSA will make us strip down to our underwear.’
Not just “TO” our underware — down to being stark naked, while the TSA personnel checks out your underware too.
It is insane that AQ could come up with explosive material that our sophisticated equipment can’t detect!!!!!
“Great. Now the TSA will make us strip down to our underwear.”
No. That comes off too.
The answer to the question on # 4. Because we need them to know it is safe for them to carry out their missions.
I agree.
Moslems must fly nekkid.
Or better yet...not at all.
“Thanks for the info -
I’m sure the agent is thrilled’”
Remember, the Obama administration did NOTHING to save the guy who told them about the location of Bin Laden and now sits and is being tortured in a jail in Pakinstan!!!
Hero doctor who helped nail Bin Laden tortured in Pakistani prison, says family
Is this Jihadi just another #2 that we always get or is he a #1?
Where's Mullah Omar?
Like nearly everything out of this administration, I suspect this is a jumble of lies and misdirection.
Not exactly, I expect them to take the next step beyond. Interesting days coming to airport security near you.
Get it straight
There IS a war .. WITH terror(ists) conducted aginst the united States.
Israel is Israel ... but look at the planet.
WHOM has the most "security" agencies, devices and programs ?
WE do.
It's an entire industry with supported industries on the side.
WHO is the target of terror(ists) ?
WE are
So don't give me that WOT crap ... it's a war against the USA and the sooner we realize it, the easier it will be to take out the minions and leave the snake head for later.
Let a couple of TSA employee lounges blow up and watch the tit suckers vanish
AH ain' goin' t'work t'day ... NO frickin' WAY, man ...
You actually think TSA is patriotic loyal?
BS ... it's the money, job security and the satisfaction of the Little Ceasar syndrome.
My thoughts as well. This was told with too much detail.
What a shock, I don’t trust them. Any of them.
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