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  • US investigates why jet bomb suspect still had visa ...(Hello Janet, what say you ?)

    12/28/2009 9:42:44 AM PST · by IrishMike · 19 replies · 1,142+ views
    BBC ^ | Monday, 28 December 2009
    The US homeland security secretary has demanded to know how the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jet had a visa despite being on a watch list. "We all want to know the answer to that question," Janet Napolitano said. She also appeared to backtrack on a widely criticised assertion that the aviation security system had worked. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arrested after he allegedly tried to set off an explosive device on board a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Friday. A hearing before a federal judge in the city scheduled for Monday, at which prosecutors...
  • The Ball-Burning Bomb in Boxers and Stupid Homeland Security Tricks

    12/27/2009 2:01:16 PM PST · by Shellybenoit · 20 replies · 1,446+ views
    Various/The Lid ^ | 12/27/09 | The Lid
    Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano either doesn't get it, or is dumber than toast. Today President Obama's choice to protect us from terrorism appeared on CNN and proved that she does not belong in her position. Napolitano, said it was too early to speculate on the claims of Al Qaeda connections made by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian held in connection with the incident. After his arrest in Detroit, Abdulmutallab said he had obtained a specialized explosive chemical compound and a syringe sewn into his underwear from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with the terror network, according...