UPDATE:  Janet speaketh:

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that “the system worked.”

Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions.”

Young, privileged, educated Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet.

Instead, the son of one of Nigeria’s most important figures opted to make his impact in a very different way – by detonating 80g of explosives sewn into his underpants, and trying to destroy a passenger jet as it came in to land at Detroit Airport on Christmas Day

Abdulmutallab, 23, had lived a gilded life, and, for the three years he studied in London, he stayed in a £2m flat. He was from a very different background to many of the other al-Qa’ida recruits who opt for martyrdom.  Via Wealthy, quiet, unassuming: the Christmas Day bomb suspect.

I can see that match.com bio now when he is released from prison for commission of a crime (Eric Holder’s new definition of terrorism).  Wealthy, educated, unassuming, slightly disfigured, burnt snarklies…a result of poor judgment.

So, why did this clown have a Visa and a ticket to fly into this country when he had been denied one in England?

Abdulmutallab has been on a list of persons with terrorist connections for around two years, and in November, his father, former economics minister of Nigeria and former Chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, reported his son’s radical politics and possible terrorist sympathies to the American embassy in Nigeria. The elder Abdulmutallab says that he is “‘surprised’ his son had been allowed to travel after he had reported him to the authorities.” And Great Britain refused to grant Abdulmutallab a visa when he tried to return to England in May.

Obama’s classification for misunderstood.  Hey, remember England said NO VISA to Bill Ayers?



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