I agree with your observation. He creates mucho suspicion with those two statements.
I've said it before and I say it again. A large percentage of these third world terrorists are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Their stupidity as to western custom and routines is what is going to expose a lot of them.
Their contempt for us/our society leads to them doing things like trying to get a deposit back on a van you used in a criminal bombing! ('93). Not the sharpest scimitar in the sharia...