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Fox News: CIA Tracked Plane Bomber Since August
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/29/2009 3:51:39 PM PST by kristinn

Chris Wallace (filling in for Bret Baier)just reported that Fox News confirms that the CIA was tracking Northwest Airlines flight 253 bommber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab since August. He did not say more than that.

No wonder Obama spoke out again today about a systemic failure. He knew tis news was going to come out.

This terrorist getting through our defenses is going to be the responsibility of his administration, not President Bush's.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200908; abdulmutallab; bombergate; cia; dennisblair; flight253; ghana; gorelick; gorelickswall; harounatoure; idrissabelrahman; insidejob; leonpanetta; mutallab; obama; oumarissa; underpantsbombergate
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To: umgud

That’s right IMO too. He’s focused on taking over the country with the Socialist, “H” the Communist agenda.

Anything else is back seat, in the trunk, or left on the porch as he isn’t interested in it.

He’s got his marching orders, and the Communist Party has approved them.


101 posted on 12/29/2009 5:25:44 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: kristinn

OBAMA’s WATCH!


102 posted on 12/29/2009 5:27:34 PM PST by CommieCutter ("You wanted the presidency, you got it, now FIX THE DAMN ECONOMY!!!!" ----YankeeReb)
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To: kristinn

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/29/airline.terror.cia/

CNN) — The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son’s extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared, but the report was not circulated outside the agency, a reliable source told CNN’s Jeanne Meserve on Tuesday.

Had that information been shared, the 23-year-old Nigerian who is alleged to have bungled an attempt to blow up a jetliner as it was landing in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day might have been denied passage on the Northwest Airlines flight, the source said......


103 posted on 12/29/2009 5:27:46 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: kristinn

Remember all the Bush bashing by the libtards about “not connecting the dots”?


104 posted on 12/29/2009 5:31:47 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Bushbacker1
thousnad cuts= thousand cuts

Maybe it was misspelled or was it a Freudian slip as I was thinking of the "panty bomber"?

105 posted on 12/29/2009 5:33:50 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: antivenom
IMO... This was a serious reaction run... it wasn’t meant to go off.

I totally disagree. His capture alive is the worst outcome for the terrorists - worse than him just getting cold feet. They may be crowing about his getting past security, but they have no way of knowing how compromised they are at this point. This will set them back perhaps another year, in my opinion, before they try anything meaningful again. Anything they learned is by accident, i.e., the fuse not being adequate. That thing was designed to go off, not fizzle out. They don't give a crap about passenger response if they know they can detonate a bomb in the process.

106 posted on 12/29/2009 5:36:37 PM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: piasa

That is a good article by Vardi. It connects all the dots.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/18/al-qaeda-cocaine-business-beltway-al-qaeda.html


107 posted on 12/29/2009 5:41:03 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama are terrorists.)
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To: umgud
BHO, AKA Hussein, Pezidendt.

“Let's be clear, the system worked. Due to the failures of the last eight years er eight years minus this year, our objectives er was a failure due to the failures of the previous administration, whose ill founded war in Iraq, precipitated the continuing hostility that the depraved er denied members of the the extremest groups are continuing to exhibit this hostile behavior. Wherever those who would obsfucate the cause of cooperation and service to the greater good, it is imperative that My goal is to bring these divergent groups to a harmonious conclusion.

108 posted on 12/29/2009 5:52:21 PM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: jimbo123
Expect the Kenyan to throw Leon Panetta under the bus very soon.

This fellow, Umar,...his father went to the U.S Embassy in Nigeria. The U.S. embassy is an arm of the State Department.

So, why is Hillary Clinton not being required to explain why the embassy seeming dropped the ball?

109 posted on 12/29/2009 5:53:12 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: kristinn

Speechless.


110 posted on 12/29/2009 5:53:38 PM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: darkwing104
Psst...It's the State Dept's fault...

Thank you for saying this.

111 posted on 12/29/2009 5:54:42 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: kristinn

bump


112 posted on 12/29/2009 5:55:29 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: kristinn
The American people are not going to accept Obama's twisting and contorting, and blame everyone else game when an airplane nearly blew up in Detroit.

This "system failure" (i.e they KNEW) is significant. And Napolitano's brain-dead first response is going to seal her fate as completely irresponsible, and sooner or later, it's going to bring her boss down.

113 posted on 12/29/2009 6:04:40 PM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Rutles4Ever

I see your point but can’t agree with you. It was a trial run, and the guy who filmed the WHOLE trip is missing.

The guy with the tape is part of this, and no matter how many xray machines they use...these guys are traveling with these explosives up their butts, and removing once after on the plane. They will just use methods of having 2 of these guys standing in line at the bathroom...first goes in and get the powder, the second goes in and sets it up...

Next attempt will not be to Detroit or coming in from Amsterdam.

I think they are hell bent in making a statement in 2009.


114 posted on 12/29/2009 6:09:50 PM PST by antivenom (If FOX "is not a news org," it's equally appropriate that the White House is "not real government")
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To: antivenom
I see your point but can’t agree with you. It was a trial run, and the guy who filmed the WHOLE trip is missing.

The guy with the tape is part of this, and no matter how many xray machines they use...these guys are traveling with these explosives up their butts, and removing once after on the plane. They will just use methods of having 2 of these guys standing in line at the bathroom...first goes in and get the powder, the second goes in and sets it up...

Next attempt will not be to Detroit or coming in from Amsterdam.

I think they are hell bent in making a statement in 2009.

That doesn't make sense. If it's just a test run, there's no reason to light a fire. If they're just rehearsing the "blocking" of the performance, the last thing they want is to end up in custody, and lighting up ten minutes before landing is totally illogical.

115 posted on 12/29/2009 6:16:20 PM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: kristinn

Aha, that explains my surprise and question mark when the Marxist Kenyan decided to grace us with his ugly self again today. Running scared. No wonder he looked so pale and pasty.


116 posted on 12/29/2009 6:21:05 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping.


117 posted on 12/29/2009 6:36:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Rick Santelli for Man of the Year! - Freeper mewzilla)
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To: kristinn
I flew roundtrip on NWA from Detroit to Amsterdam in October. On the inbound flight, when we landed at Schiphol, we were ordered to remain in our seats because the Dutch police had to remove someone from the plane. The whole process took almost 20 minutes, they escorted out a black male from the rear of the aircraft.

I wonder....

118 posted on 12/29/2009 6:42:23 PM PST by 6323cd (I Am Jim Thompson)
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To: mojitojoe
If The O wants to throw someone under a bus, there is that Secretary of State... what's her name again?

Frankly, I'll be The O is starting to wish the plane had went down. would have been easier to cover things up.

My guess is that the Jihadi and their surrogates in the White House are shaking in their boots in fear of underwear bomber, and his associates getting seriously um... interrogated and start talking.

And with all this, is this idiot STILL on the beach??

Sheesh!

119 posted on 12/29/2009 6:46:18 PM PST by jimjohn2458 (jimjohn - conservative, and more black than the Obamination)
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To: Rutles4Ever
Unfortunately the terrorists operate in cells of 4 to 5 people at the maximum therefore this terrorist Omar Al Farouq will not jeopordize future Al Qaeda planned terror attacks because he does not know about them or the people who are planning them.
120 posted on 12/29/2009 6:47:46 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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