Obama: 'We've Closed An Important Chapter In This Tragedy' [Warns: "Not To Rush To Judgment"]

NBCNews ^ | April 20, 2013 | Michael O'Brien

[Steelfish]

Obama: 'We've Closed An Important Chapter In This Tragedy'

President Obama addresses the apprehension of a suspected bomber, and the tragedies in both Boston and West, Texas. By Michael O'Brien.

The nation has "closed an important chapter" in its response to a terrorist attack on Monday, President Barack Obama said Friday evening at the White House, capping what the president called a "tough week" that captured much of the nation's attention.

After a day of anxious waiting that played out live on national television and in social media, police apprehended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the second, remaining suspect in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon — alive following a daylong manhunt that shut down much of the Boston metro area. (snip) The president warned against any rush to judgment. "When a tragedy like this happens … it's important that we do this right. That's why we have investigations. That's why we relentlessly gather the facts. That's why we have courts," he said. "That's why we take care not to rush to judgment -- not about motivations of individuals, certainly not about entire groups of people."

[JoeProBono]

[Fzob]

The War on Terror has been over for some time — I think it ended the day Obama picked up his Nobel Peace Prize.

True. but the war on us continues unabated.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In other words, don't rush to judgement about him.

[Gene Eric]

>> In other words, don’t rush to judgement about him.

He’s a dick.

[Vendome]

It wasn’t an important chapter so much as it speaks volumes of The Religion of Pieces...

[Yardstick]

Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, for all his big government faults, would have gotten the basic morality of a terrorist attack on the American people right, unlike Obama. He would have been outraged and he would have known where to put the blame. The modern Democrat party is a leftist abomination that has no place in our politics.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[luvbach1]

I didn’t watch or listen to this evil charlatan.

[Yosemitest]

The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF, Barack Hussein Obama II, aka Barry Soetoro, is releasing the most dangerous Muslim Terrorist.

WHY ?

Have you read this?

U.S. 'deporting Saudi person of interest'
Obama has unscheduled meeting with foreign minister

(excerpt)

... WND reported Wednesday morning that the Saudi student Alharbi shares the same last name as a major Saudi clan that includes scores of al-Qaida operatives.

Some in the clan are senior al-Qaida members while others are reportedly being held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Two Saudi nationals were reportedly injured in the bombings in Boston, with one, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, initially put under armed guard at a hospital. Alharbi is reportedly studying in the U.S. on a student visa.

A large group of federal and state law enforcement agents reportedly raided Alharbi’s apartment in Revere, Mass.

CNN reported the search took place by consent, according to a federal law-enforcement source, meaning no search warrant was needed.

Now the Saudi embassy in Washington has said Alharbi was no longer under detention and is not a suspect in the bomb blasts.

Saudi diplomat Azzam bin Abdel Karim reportedly visited Alharbi in the hospital.

Nail Al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi mission in Washington, stated that U.S. authorities told the embassy “no Saudi national was a suspect in the Boston Marathon attack and that the Saudi national in question was a witness, not a suspect.”

While it is not clear whether the Alharbi questioned as part of the marathon probe is a member of the well-known Saudi clan, his Facebook page, reviewed by WND, lists him as Facebook friends with at least seven other Alharbis, located in both Boston and in Saudi Arabia.

One of the Alharbis on his Facebook friends list, Ahmed Alharbi, is listed as a pharmacy technician at the Saudi Ministry of Health. Most others live in Riyadh.

The Alharbi clan has long been active in al-Qaida. Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi, for example, is a Saudi national who joined Osama bin Laden’s mujahadeen group in the 1980s. He reportedly became an al-Qaida member in the mid-1990s. He turned himself in to Saudi authorities in 2004 as part of an amnesty deal.

The BBC reported Khaled Alharbi was married to the daughter of al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahri. He reportedly appeared with bin Laden in a video praising the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Another top al-Qaida operative is Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi, a Saudi national identified by the State Department as “a key member of an al-Qaida network operating in Iran.”

The State Department has offered a multimillion-dollar reward for the capture of Abdel Alharbi, saying he is an Iran-based al-Qaida facilitator who serves as the deputy to Muhsin al-Fadhl, who runs al-Qaida’s Iran network.

On his website, former Palestinian Liberation Organization operative Walid Shoebat translated a list of the Saudi government’s 85 wanted al-Qaida members.

The list includes several members of the Alharbi clan:


• Badr Saud Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
• Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
• Khalid Salim Uwaid Al-Lahibi Al-Harbi
• Raed Abdullah Salem Al-Thahiri Al-Harbi
• Abdullah Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Harbi (leader)
• Fayez Ghuneim Humeid Al-Hijri Al-Harbi

Shoebat also points out that several Alharbi clan members are being held by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, including
• Salim Salman Awadallah Al-Saidi Al-Harbi,
  
• Majid Abdullah Hussein Al-Harbi,
  
• Muhammad Abdullah Saqr Al-Alawi Al-Harbi,
  
• Ghanem Abdul Rahman Ghanem Al-Harbi
  
• and Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awfi Al-Harbi.

[luvbach1]

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” - Obama

Just the opposite, 0bumble. It must belong to those who tell the truth about the prophet of Islam and defeat his followers or we are doomed.

[JoeProBono]

[Biggirl]

Obama, it will belong to those who call out a false prophet for who he is, a false prophet.

[Biggirl]

I turned it off as soon as the camereas left Boston.

[EBH]

The nation has "closed an important chapter" in its response to a terrorist attack on Monday, President Barack Obama said Friday evening at the White House

Uh...no I am sorry President Obama this American does not see it that way at all, not at all. Besides the many obvious questions surrounding the radicalization I in fact have many no so obvious questions given these two had more than one bomb in waiting.

First a foremost in my mind right now is the media meme being spewed about the older one traveling abroad for 6 months. Even Fox News pundits are saying he was likely radicalized at that time. I disagree. He was trained and refined at that time, but his radicalization happened here, in the United States. Once near complete, he was sent overseas for training. Where did he get the money to travel? Who sponsored him and his trip?

We are already hearing the foundation being laid for the dysfunctional family meme being laid. From the family seeking asylum to very different views between family members to these young men being disowned by parts of the family. I want to know what the uncle knew and why he disowned them and if it was for terrorist type talk or recognizing the radicalization going on...the uncle needs to spill the beans. It is his duty to the United States and dare I say it is his duty to Islam, if he thinks these young men dishonored them.

And lastly, stop referring to Inspire as some sort of foreign terrorist magazine. Tell the damn truth about it. http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/October/Al-Qaeda-Magazine-Inspires-Homegrown-Terrorism/ It was created by a native American to reach-out to radicalized Americans.

The radicalization is happening here, right here, on American soil all across our nation. No, Mr. President, no the 'chapter is not closed.' We've only seen the introduction.

[TNCMAXQ]

If Romney were president now every Democrat and most members of the media would be saying this was a failure of his administration to keep Americans safe.

[Joe Boucher]

I’d still like to know more about the puke they first thought was involved and why the administration is covering for his moosie ass and are getting him out of the U.S. so quickly so as to not piss off them damn Saudis.

[Sacajaweau]

Had they deported him aka enforcing our existing laws, Boston would not have happened.

And because a foreign country made an inquiry, I have to believe that he was on a list and they're lying through their teeth.

[ansel12]

There you are, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtbxnB-RN4

[Yosemitest]

And this Kenyan TURD calls himself a Christian?

Remember HOW our Heavenly Father telling us HOW to handle other religions,
how to show the proper reaction to their false gods.

"Elijah mocked them, and said,
Cry aloud: for he is a god;
either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked"

Yes, remember:

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works.