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2009-12-27 Home Front: WoT

Wealthy, quiet, unassuming: Christmas Day bomb suspect

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Posted by Steve White 2009-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Clearly a desperate young man, driven to extremism by a mixture of anguish, hopelessness, poverty and anger at President Bush.

Posted by lex 2009-12-27 08:56|| 2009-12-27 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 interestingly,the election of Barack Obama is a factor in that, because, whatever you think of him as a president, the fact of him shows young people that there is an alternative to killing yourself

Sure. You can kill infidels. Especially those who worship false idols like The One.

Posted by lex 2009-12-27 08:57|| 2009-12-27 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you remember the good ole days, when a Nigerian would only try to scam you out of money?

Posted by IG-88 2009-12-27 09:01|| 2009-12-27 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 "He was shaking. He didn't resist anything. It's just hard to believe that he was trying to blow up this plane. He was in a trance. He was very afraid."

Wrong conclusion. It was OBVIOUS that he was contemplating a horrific act involving his own death.

This is why the Israelis use trained psychological screeners to interview everyone about to board an Israel-bound plane. It's very easy to suss out a terrorist with just a few simple questions - whereareyougoingtoday, whatareyoudoingthere, whydoyouhaveasyringestickingoutofyourlowerpantslegsir?

It works, has done so for decades. The cost would be a billion or two. A bargain.

Posted by lex 2009-12-27 09:11|| 2009-12-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Israeli style screening would, in addition to costing lots of $$$, also result in increasing wait times.

The solution is a combo of technology, behavioral screening and profiling. Unfortunately, the latter two go against PC.

Posted by lord garth 2009-12-27 10:49|| 2009-12-27 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 "Abdulmutallab's background has confounded terror experts. Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College..."
The headline should have been:
"Experts Confounded" (In the USA it would have been "Experts Surprised")

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-12-27 11:32|| 2009-12-27 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Getting really tired of the media and Govt citing that he was "self-radicalized" as if it happens in a vacuum...the common denominators never mentioned are:
1) Wahhabi Mosque
2) Wahhabi Imam
3) Wahhabi Propaganda

Posted by Jack Salami 2009-12-27 12:09|| 2009-12-27 12:09|| Front Page Top

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