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Obama Administration Suffers Another Near-Miss Disaster From Islamo Facists
2010-05-05
President Obama is now learning how the loosening surveillance laws put in place under President Bush has exposed Americans to greater threat from Islamo Fascist sleepers. These sleepers are terrorist who also are American citizens or citizens of countries not normally considered part of the front on the war on terror. First we had the American citizen turned radical cleric, Anwar al Aulaqi. His communications with American citizen Major Nidal Hasan eventually led to the Ft Hood massacre were 14 human beings had their lives snuffed out in the name of Allah.

Since al Aulaqi is American, it has become evident from news reports since the Ft Hood massacre that the liberals inside the Obama justice department had decided to terminate all investigations into al Aulaqi, leaving Hasan free to commit his heinous acts of mass murder (see here, here and here for details on the evidence against the Obama administration -- more here on Ft Hood from RCP). al Aulaqi was also in contact with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day underwear bomber who nearly killed 300 people in the skies above Detroit, MI. There is a case to be made that, if team Obama had not taken their eyes off al Aulaqi, the Christmas Day bomber would have been detected and possibly stopped.

At least we would have known enough to not read the attacker his rights and allow is fellow sleepers the chance to go underground and continue to their targets here in America.

So it is no surprise that the suspect behind the NY Times Square bombing attempt is also an American:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced early Tuesday that an arrest had been made in the failed Times Square car bombing, saying that Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he tried to fly to Dubai on Monday night.

Authorities said Shahzad, who is of Pakistani origin and lived in Connecticut, had paid cash for a Nissan Pathfinder that was found packed with explosives Saturday night on a tourist-crowded block in midtown Manhattan. The vehicle was set ablaze but failed to detonate.

Officials located Shahzad after a sweeping two-day investigation that yielded what senior Obama administration officials described as a flood of international and domestic clues suggesting a plot involving more than one person.

"It was clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans," Holder said at a rare middle-of-the-night news conference at the Justice Department, nearly three hours after the suspect was pulled from an international flight that had already left the departure gate.


This is the basic fault with the liberal view that the threat of government listening in on citizens in communication with known or highly suspect terrorists is not as great as the threat of political misuse of such surveillance. The checks and balances for the surveillance powers put in place by President Bush and ratified at least 3 times by votes in Congress provide plenty of protection from misuse, if the 4th Amendment hypochondriacs on the far left cared to pay attention.

Al Qaeda is not stupid, and in fact are extremely opportunistic. It has been no secret that the Obama administration planned to be less vigilant, dialing down the reactions to potential threats. It has also been well known the liberals wanted to reinstate the barriers of investigating terrorism around US citizens.

So al Qaeda took the natural path and changed its strategy to one of recruiting basically clean individuals who can move about the US with ease -- especially true of US citizens. In this way they have less chance of success on an individual basis, but greater overall chance of success as their human weapons increase in number and agility.

It will not take long for al Qaeda to adjust their approach to improve the detonation procedures for their bombs -- the only thing which saved 300 people from dying in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day, and the only thing which saved those people in harms way in Times Square this weekend. Team Obama needs to reject the liberal madness and denial about being at war and get back to protecting the people. Else he will be a one term President who failed miserably.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  MOUD inferences also read, TREASON BY AMERS AGZ AMERS + IN THE HIGHEST POLITICAL, CORPORATE OFFICES OF THE LAND...???

and

ERGO GWOT is a SHAM = PDENIABLE COVER FOR BLOODY US-ORDERED GLOBAL IMPERIALISM VIA PROXY WAR???

COMMIE-SOCIALIST-GOVTIST NATIONAL-GLOBAL NWO??? "POPULAR" = "DEMOCRATIC" = "VOTER-APPROVED", BUT JUST NOT VOTER VOTED-ON PER SE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-05-05 22:16  

#5  ION DAILY TIMES.PK/FREEREPUBLIC/DRUDGEREPORT > AHMADINEJAD: OSAMA BIN LADEN IN WAHISNGTON, NOT TEHRAN.

"Since AL-AULAQI is American" [AL-AWLAKI, etc.] > HMMMM, HMMMMMM, wehell, unless I've missed something MOUD HAS JUST PERSONALLY, STRONGLY + BROADLY INFERRED, WIDOUT OUTSIDE PRESSURE OR SOLICITATION, THAT OSAMA IS A BUSH = US/US GOVT. PARTNER + PROXY???

MOUD also read, RADIC ISLAM'S SETBACKS in AFPAK, ETC. IS DUE IN PART BECUZ OSAMA = "THE GREAT/IRON SHEIKH OF ISLAM + THE PROPHET" IS IN REALITY A US SPY???

WHICH IN TURN ALSO INFERS THAT ON 9-11, THE USA OR ELEMENTS THEREIN ATTACKED THEIR OWN MAJOR CITY NYC, + [helped]KILLED 3000 OF THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-05-05 22:09  

#4  I thought the law enforcement pieces fell together just a bit too rapidly. Here we go again, the Hasan factor. Thanks TW.

Link

George LaMonica, a 35-year-old computer consultant, said he bought his two-bedroom condominium in Norwalk, Conn., from Mr. Shahzad for $261,000 in May 2004. A few weeks after he moved in, Mr. LaMonica said, investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed him, asking for details of the transaction and for information about Mr. Shahzad. It struck Mr. LaMonica as unusual, but he said detectives told him they were simply “checking everything out.”
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-05-05 19:06  

#3  The New York Times piece posted here yesterday reported that the man who sold him the house that subsequently went into forclosure was visited by Homeland Security/the FBI afterward, who asked him about Mr. Shahzad. Normal procedure, they told him it was.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-05-05 18:48  

#2  Lots of conflicting reports today on whether Faisal Shahzad was on any sort of watch lists.

This has created some confusion among the left.

Some want to blame Bush on the theory that Bush's actions created a terrorists. Others want to blame Bush on the theory that Faisel wasn't put on a no fly list back in 2004. Still others seem to want to blame Bush on the theory that Faisel was a victim of the Bush caused housing bubble collapse. It is even possible a very few are coming to their senses and realizing that the Jihad isn't going away because of Obama's biog or words.
Posted by: lord garth   2010-05-05 10:59  

#1  I think it was George Carlin who rants about calling things a "near miss". The more appropriate headline would have been "Obama Administration Suffers Another Near Disaster from Islamo Fascists."
Posted by: IG-88   2010-05-05 09:21  

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