Cops fear 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airlines.
FAILED plane bomber Umar Abdulmutallab has bragged to FBI agents that there are more young men plotting to launch attacks on the West.
The 23-year-old Nigerian has told security chiefs of a sinister network in Yemen who are ready and waiting to strike.
The reports come after The Sun revealed that cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
Handling the problem by POTUS & Team Zero.
Politico‘s Carol E. Lee has an interesting story today on President Obama’s “by-now familiar pattern…for dealing with unexpected problems.” As best we can figure, the Obama damage control strategy consists of these 5 easy steps:
Step 1: Deny seriousness of issue.
Step 2: Deny any admin responibility/failure.
Step 3: Have spokespeople convey O’s feelings to public.
Step 4: Blame Bush admin.
Step 5: Concede the issue days later.
I feel so safe now knowing that there are more than just a few waiting to come in from Yemen.
Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces.
His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot.
h/t Nazareth Priest
December 28, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I just checked out a few Obot blogs and they are blaming all this on Bush…and Clinton. They’re delusional.
When I think of all the tax payer money that was spent on revamping our so-called Homeland Security, it makes me ill. It’s amazing how Obama found the money to bail out banks, but couldn’t find enough money to keep air marshals on flights…at the very least, the international flights.
December 29, 2009 at 12:26 am
Oh yes, it is Clinton and GWB in their dreams. We have not been the big stick of yesteryear, that is correct. I just can’t see how they can relieve their messiah of this escalation.
December 28, 2009 at 9:54 pm
the Pokiestani guy helping him with his boarding pass must have been a chaperone from the brotherhood.
one of the sailors from USS Cole bombing died today in Miami. WSVN reported causes related to PTSD. http://www.rebuildingtogethermiami.org/usscole.html
December 29, 2009 at 12:27 am
Thank you for the link raging. As we think of the USS Cole, we should be reminded that Yemen was problem long ago. So sad.
December 28, 2009 at 10:48 pm
this is complete and utter bullsh#t given to us by the same people who gave cretin the baby bomb that was so powerful it only singed his little nuts.
the people we need to be scared of most is our side: they led that clown by the hand every step of the way, lied to our face about the actual threat posed, and next they’ll tell how they’ll protect us by stationing interpol and military in the airports.
December 29, 2009 at 12:40 am
That is why that Interpol exclusion was signed in the dead of night before Christmas Nom. I don’t believe that was an oversight. Everything points out to more control step via OWO.
December 29, 2009 at 12:08 am
Why not post MichEVIL at an airport….her horrible demeanor would be a deterrent to any wannabe bomber. Lets face it, the people we need to be wary of are the ones who are supposed to be protecting us….frankly, they are doing a lousy job!
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
December 29, 2009 at 1:00 am
They are the most unmotivated people on the earth. They love to wield the power they have, and not unlike Hitler’s army of hell. Perhaps that is really going overboard, but the events of the last few years have been accelerating at a horrible pace. One that is a battle between good and evil.
December 29, 2009 at 1:11 am
well and the most unpleasant truth of all is that americans are now the good germans who turn a blind eye to the terror wielded by their government and military. we are all nazis now.
December 29, 2009 at 7:13 am
No, we are not all Nazis now Nom.
December 29, 2009 at 7:15 am
There are many who will perpetuate evil with great willingness, I will agree with that.
December 29, 2009 at 7:16 am
I think that most of us are now trying very hard to find truth.
December 30, 2009 at 3:11 am
maybe they should freaking try a little harder.
it always helps to pull one’s head out of the sand.
December 30, 2009 at 3:24 am
It isn’t about sand Nom. This mess is one huge mother. I think each one of us picks up one tentacle only to find it entangled with another. I honestly cannot see how the truth will come out except that it does seep out slowly.
December 30, 2009 at 2:28 am
there’s a million dead people in Iraq and we knew before we went in there weren’t any wmd.
you can’t find a person in a hundred who will call it mass murder.
it sure sounds like germany and poland to me.
December 30, 2009 at 3:22 am
WE will only receive what we are supposed to receive.
December 30, 2009 at 3:54 am
I am not understanding what you mean.
we certainly know now that our dear leaders lied and started an unnecessary war ( and that carries a presumption that others possessing wmd are a valid reason for war that I don’t believe is true in all cases either): it follows that our refusal to condemn the action means we approve it.
December 30, 2009 at 5:02 am
I can be honest about this and tell you that I am not evil. At the time, I did not know about certain details that would have such consequences. I will never say that because I sat at home that I tacitly approved of those activities.
December 30, 2009 at 1:27 pm
my point is: what are people saying now: mass murder or not?
because it’s obvious to me that not one american in a hundred will admit that it’s mass murder committed in his name with his tax dollars.
December 30, 2009 at 1:29 pm
and if they can’t even do that then they most certainly are good little germans.
December 30, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Then that is your opinion of your fellow Americans that did not have all the information that they needed to make an informed decision. We disagree. I don’t feel that way about our country’s citizens.
December 30, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Nom, I am of German descent. I will go further and tell you that my dearest Jewish friend who was taken to a camp and survived does not call her fellow Germans murderers.
December 30, 2009 at 4:34 am
We only have so much info given to us. The cards are not all on the table is all that I mean. There is more that we will never know about.
December 30, 2009 at 4:37 am
good lord isn’t a million people dead unnecessarily enough?
if not, when does one consider that one knows enough?
December 30, 2009 at 4:49 am
Nom you and I don’t know everything. It is not possible. We see the consequences of actions.
December 29, 2009 at 3:58 am
Yes, how do we tell the good guys from the bad guys. Would gwb now include the USA in the axis of evil?
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
December 29, 2009 at 4:32 am
well as a Tolkien fan:
“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?”
“As he ever has judged,” said Aragorn. “Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”
December 30, 2009 at 8:29 pm
you still do not address my point:
you say because people didn’t have all the facts then, that they can’t be held accountable: this does not address what we know now.
Now we do know that our government invaded Iraq knowing from the very start that there were no wmd. So, why does no one condemn the action now?
Even if I were able to give people a pass for not knowing at the time that what we were doing was mass murder (and I’m not willing because it was freaking obvious) they most certainly know it now. So where is the condemnation for our actions now?
That there by and large isn’t any, shows me that the vast and overwhelming majority of Americans are perfectly fine with our country having killed over a million people unnecessarily. That sure sounds like nazis to me.
I had relatives in that war who fought both the germans and the japanese. When one of my father’s brothers died this year, admirals showed up for his funeral. I call the germans and the japanese who fought both murderers and I call their countrymen that made no objection abettors to murder. But in both countries there were those who did at least voice opposition to their wars, and some who resisted their wars: I do not call all germans and japanese murderers.
I expect the same out of my own nation. I expect people not to be so consumed with a lust for aggrandizement that they seize on every piece of propaganda flung to them by their masters as an excuse to wage war. I expect them not to be so freaking arrogant that they believe they have some freaking mandate to be the world’s policeman. And I expect when they know their country is in the wrong that they step up and say so and protest. And if that fails, and we go to war under illegitimate purposes, then afterwards I f#cking well expect them to step up to the plate and admit they were gullible dupes, look at themselves to learn why they failed, and make godd#mn sure it doesn’t f#cking happen again.
And I’m real strongly displeased with each and every one of them who show signs of being willing to repeat their mistakes all over again.
If that sounds over the top then remember that I really don’t like having blood put on my hands.
December 30, 2009 at 8:59 pm
;?: don’t know how this ended up here, should be 13.
December 31, 2009 at 12:57 am
Nom, something is not working with WP. I enter a reply and it ends up somewhere else. I don’t know what the cause is????
December 31, 2009 at 12:55 am
Nom, I don’t have all of the facts. Why should I call myself and every other American a murderer because you or others have decided that we have all the facts?
If you think that wmds was the only reason we went to war, than your point is salient. I don’t believe that we know everything there is to be known about Iraq. As far as condemning the government now, I am not sure who you want to point the finger at directly without having direct knowledge and evidence in your hands of who that source is. Believe me when I tell you that I would LOVE to know who is the direct source of all the mess in Iraq. There were clusters of people, but whose idea was it and who implemented it? That is who is a criminal in my mind. That is the source. The lackeys that followed orders are criminals as well, but they are not the source that I would like to address.
I have enough friends who serve within the armed forces that have told me over and over, “I will NEVER be told everything.” I believe them, because they are not told everything. I do understand what you are saying, but I just cannot make a blanket statement.
December 31, 2009 at 2:33 am
I think that the only reason to go to war is because one must.
I did in fact think Hussein likely had some wmd, but I still didn’t support war, because I did not think it necessary. He had no military equivalent to us, he could be contained from a distance if he intended anything towards us.
In the first place it was obvious that Hussein was no supporter of any religious theocracy as a theocracy would have removed him from power, and in the second there was no connection between Hussein and any terrorist acts committed against the US.
Therefore, we had no grounds that one could deem necessary.
It was a war for gain. Operation Iraqi Liberation, they called it to start with. Cute.
The grounds by which we tried to justify it were lies and they were obviously lies.
I do not have to know everything to know right from wrong. I don’t know what wolfsbane tastes like, but I know enough not to consume poison. If my criteria were that I must know everything before making a decision, I would be unable to do anything.
You write: “Why should I call myself and every other American a murderer because you or others have decided that we have all the facts?
Our government waged this war and claimed it was for many reasons, reasons that had a habit of transmogrifying whenever the stated reason was exposed as a lie. If anyone felt short on facts then the obvious action would be to amass more facts before proceeding.
There are a million people dead as a result of our invasion. Can you honestly think of ANY circumstance to justify such a thing? I am stunned to find anyone even attempting to do so.
December 31, 2009 at 6:24 am
I am not justifying anything Nom but you insist that we should call ourselves murderers when we didn’t have the information to make an informed choice and we never will have that choice. There is no way that the government is going to allow you nor I to call the shots. I would never want to sit on a jury and not have all the information. Your stance is such that a decision should be based on what is given to you. I would never base a decision on what information I was allowed to have. You and I differ on that. I will never change your mind and you will not change mine. It is what makes us individuals. I learn a lot from you and others who post here. Quite a bit actually. Some things quite frankly have never been issues to me however, when commentators give their opinions I can understand where they are coming from. I feel that I am getting a better picture of what is at hand each day, but by no means do I believe that everything is set before me.
To me this is very similar to undergoing surgery. You have complications and risks that can happen at anytime. It matters not that you have them before you, a complication can force another unforeseen complication that was never mentioned to begin with. You just don’t know everything. I think this way because I have undergone some really terrible issues medically and neither I nor the docs could have ever predicted the outcomes. There have been many surprises.
December 31, 2009 at 6:49 pm
well I am sure we are not going to change each others’ minds, but you have somewhat misrepresented my point of view.
“…you insist that we should call ourselves murderers when we didn’t have the information to make an informed choice and we never will have that choice.”
It is my contention we assuredly did have enough information; however even if I accepted as a premise that we did not, certainly we have enough information now necessary to denounce the war as deliberate mass murder. Further, our failure to denounce that war will no doubt encourage us to fail to denounce any of our other wars, as it promotes a revisionist mindset and the false belief that we are always on the side of good.
“Your stance is such that a decision should be based on what is given to you. I would never base a decision on what information I was allowed to have.”
No, I based my decision on the information I obtained: it was not what was given to me at all. I read a very great deal from very diverse sources, both domestic and foreign medias on many topics: politics, military, history, economics, etc. I most certainly did not rely on George Freaking Bush and Dick F#cking Cheney to inform me.
“There is no way that the government is going to allow you nor I to call the shots.”
It is our duty and responsibility to MAKE our government represent our wishes. This is why the war is in fact also our fault.
December 31, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I’m sorry Nom, I didn’t mean to offer your thoughts in a different light. What you obtained as information is what is allowed to be released.
And that is fine. I will do what I can but I also will do it based on what I believe to be truth. We all have free will, right?
January 23, 2010 at 10:40 am
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1db_1263341143