Posted on 12/25/2009 6:01:47 PM PST by Brytani
A White House official said the incident was an attempted act of terrorism. The FBI is investigating and President Obama, celebrating Christmas in Hawaii, was told of the incident about three hours after the plane landed, officials said.
Obama has told White House officials that all appropriate measures be taken to increase security for air travel, a spokesman said. Nevertheless, officials said, they are not prepared to raise the terrorism alert level, currently at orange -- or the second-highest of five levels -- for domestic and international air travel.
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Did you work for Blackwater?
- Why didn't this guy blow up the plane over open water instead of descent to land phase
Those are questions I'm asking. Multiple planes disappearing over water has been an Al Qaida wet dream since way back in the day. The Heathrow plotters were going to do it with ten planes over the Atlantic; back in the early Nineties they planned to do 10 or 12 flights out of the Phillipines over the Pacific. Richard Reid tried to light his shoe over the Atlantic.
Why did he not do this in the bathroom where he wouldn't get caught and get is ass kicked?
This one I can answer. To blow a wide body apart without any help from the fuel load, you'd need a bigger bomb than a guy can smuggle aboard under current security, or at least bigger than you could carry to the lav without raising suspiscion. So, he was probably trying to set off the bomb in a spot that would light a fuel tank. Remember that Al Qaida plot to destroy 10 or 12 planes out of the Phillipines that I mentioned? As a dry run to see how it would work, Ramzi Yousef put a bomb under the seat of a Phillipine Airlines 747 in 1994. The idea was to pierce the center wing tank and blow up the plane, but Yousef placed it in a row too far forward. It killed one passenger, but didn't blow up the plane.
Maybe that's what this guy was trying to do, set off the center wing tank. It looks like that was what Reid was trying to do.
All I have to do is look at Janet Napolitano - that tells me everything I need to know about DHS.
The trifling little weasels are counting on people not to do the math. In the second paragraph, they write that the plane landed around noon. In the last paragraph, they mention that Obama was notified between 9 and 9:30 and note that Hawaii is five hours behind Eastern time.
So they sorta kinda reported the delay without actually coming right out and admitting it. It's like that old joke about the US beating the Soviet Union in a sports event, and the Soviet headlines reading "USSR finishes second; US finishes next-to-last".
This is beyond infuriating!
And what's the deal with you black folks out there? According to polls you still approve of Barry at greater than a 90% level? What the heck???
You got your "first" black president.
I am sad that this country didn't instead elect a man of integrity and patriotism like Alan Keyes, or even someone like Col Allen West. Can't we get past this Marxist jerk yet and just move on? He's destroying our great (soon to be past tense) nation! Time for a reboot...
Oh yeah, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Time to get right with Jesus, if y'all haven't already done so!
Abdulmutallab has told federal investigators that he had ties to al-Qaeda and traveled to Yemen to collect the incendiary device and instructions on how to use it, according to a federal counterterrorism official briefed on the case. But authorities have yet to verify the claim, and they expect to conduct several more interviews before they determine whether he is credible, the official said.
Do you think that every time some idiot tries something stupid then makes claims that he is Al Queada that the federal system should immediately jump through their butts to relay unconfirmed claims of some bungler?
This doesn't look like a sanctioned attack. It looks like someone screaming for attention....a wannabe.
On the morning he died, Mohamed Atta shopped at the Wal-Mart where my mom worked.
His knowinging this case makes no difference.
You don't think it's important to notify the president of the united states that a terrorist attack just happened and 250+ people almost died at the hands of AQ? That hundereds of families were waiting for their loved ones to arrived in Detroit on Christmas, and they almost died? You don't think they should immediatly tell the Commander in Chief, the top guy in charge of our military that our nation was just attacked by AQ?
You judge an entire department of people by the person some BOZO appointed to oversee it? That’s a bit of a broad brush.
Not to worry. We’ll continue to work hard to protect the nation whether we like Napalitano or not (we don’t) and whether you appreciate us or not.
| Our muslim named president who swears he's not a muslim is more concerned with damage control to the muslim world. Very true. Ironically, terror attacks in the Middle East on "mainstream" Muslims are done by Radical Extremist Muslims who view those "mainstream" Muslims as not being Muslim enough.
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No.
All hat and no cattle. A wannabe who never was.
I rather obtain my information from my relatives who are Marine officers and AF Intel.
This wasn’t on the local news or anything. I didn’t hear about this at ALL!
wow.
Neither did Obama.
You didn’t read the article did you?
250 people didn’t almost die.
The article said the man’s claims to be connected to AQ were unconfirmed.
You are hysteric.
I’m sure anyone who got on Free Republic or Twitter or Airliners.net got this news before Obama could be bothered with it.
And neither of them know anything about this case right now.
So your info isn’t even as good as mine, is it?
“I find it interesting that an alleged attempted attack on his plane is considered terrorism, while an Islamofascist attacking and killing several US servicemen at Ft. Hood is not.”
AMEN...and after a KNOWN series of communications with RADICAL Muslims.
I’m relieved you have it all figured out sport. Perhaps you can offer your services to DHS - seems like a good fit.
whitewash
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CQODU00&show_article=1
Military aide told Obama as the plane was landing at 9 am Hawaii time..uh..but there is a 5 hour time difference..and that flight arrived at gate 12:01.
So where was Obama and why couldn’t he be bothered...
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