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Suicideroos II
ABC News got ahold of some government pictures of the Northwest Airline jihadi’s Suicideroos. Check ‘em out:
So was our dreaded terrorist wannabe wearing women’s underwear?
God & Dogs
Got this in an email today. Kind of schmaltzy…
Puts me in mind of the joke about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac…
Suicideroos
So the guys who gave us suicide belts, vests and backpacks have come up with a new insane way to off themselves while killing dozens of others at the same time:
Islam brings you Suicideroos:
The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect’s underwear before sending him on his mission, federal authorities tell ABC News.
Ever since the shoe bomber attempted to blow up an airplane we’ve had to take off shoes to get through security. Now, the geniuses at TSA will have us taking off our underwear before boarding a plane.
Time to go commando.
From HotAir:
Once again, the reaction to a terrorist attack has been to penalize everyone else instead of getting serious about the actual threat. The US should have started emulating El Al after 9/11, whose security screening uses expert analysis and questioning, as well as heightened scrutiny where it belongs.
They Keep Going and Going…
So another Nigerian caused mischief on another flight to Detroit.
From CBSNews:
The same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day saw another security scare Sunday after a confrontation with a sick passenger, officials said.
Security and airline personnel have been on edge since authorities charged a passenger from Nigeria with attempting to detonate a hidden explosive device while his flight from Amsterdam approached Detroit on Friday.
In the Sunday incident, the flight crew became concerned after the man – also Nigerian – became sick and spent about an hour locked in the bathroom, officials said.
“This raised concerns so an alert was raised,” FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said. “The investigation shows that this was a non-serious incident and all is clear at this point.”
No devices have been found on the plane and investigators say no apparent threats were made, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
After the flight crew became concerned, the pilot of the Sunday flight had requested emergency assistance upon arrival, sending federal authorities scrambling to respond to a potential danger.
When will our government realize that the jihadi dirtbags just won’t quit and get serious about protecting Americans instead of protecting terrorists?
Because they won’t stop until we stomp them out of existence or make it too costly to continue.
Hey, did somebody say bomb Mecca?
Now there’s a plan.
Domestic Terror
From Gateway Pundit:
This year, domestic terror plots peaked. There have been 32 terror-related “events” on US shores since 9/11, and 12 of those occurred in 2009.
Airport Security
Traveling by air is nothing short of a pure hassle. Used to be fun. Not anymore.
You have to arrive at the airport sometimes two hours early for your hour and a half flight to Chicago, go through a stupid security procedure that has you removing your shoes and belts, grandma’s practically being stripped searched, and having your possessions pawed over by a non-English speaking moron.
You can’t have so much as a travel-sized tube of toothpaste on you, forget about bottles of shampoo or a soda.
Meanwhile, if you are a terrorist you apparently can sail through security with explosive material strapped to your leg.
How is this possible?
Here’s a good list of questions regarding the latest Jihadi wannabe from SkatingonStilts:
1. According to early reports, the suspect is 23-year-old Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, and his name “appears to be included in the government’s records of terrorist suspects, according to a preliminary review.” The first question, then, is how he managed to get a visa to come to the United States.
2. One report suggested that the visa was granted to attend a religious meeting. Is there some political correctness problem that makes State reluctant to deny visas for such travel?
3. A visa might have been granted for a good reason (a chance to interrogate or arrest him) but only in circumstances where he was watched closely. At a minimum, data about him should have gone to DHS and FBI from State. Did it?
4. Even if it didn’t, TSA and DHS should have identified him as a possible risk from his travel reservations. Did they? If not, why not?
5. If they did, was he screened specially at Schiphol? Did DHS put an air marshal on his flight?
6. Sometimes travel reservation data is spotty and badly recorded, but that shouldn’t be true for the passenger manifests that NW should have sent to DHS. Those should come straight off the passport. Did it? Should airlines be held liable for deaths caused by bad manifest information?
7. How good was the air travel screening in Nigeria?
8. If it wasn’t that good, and I suspect it wasn’t, in part because the plane was not bound for the US, did Schiphol fall down on the job by not properly rescreening Abdulmutallab?
9. Have we let European objections to US screening standards affect the security of flights with connecting passengers?
10. One passenger is said to have helped thwart the attack by climbing over several less active passengers to grapple with the terrorist, apparently suffering burns to his hands in the process. How long will it take Secretary Napolitano (at least) or President Obama (my preference) to visit this guy in the hospital if these facts turn out to be true? Passengers are the last and most effective line of defense in cases like this. But the incentives to sit tight are still great. We need to honor the heroes who react quickly to thwart attacks in the air.
If we’re going to allow Islamic terrorts to turn air travel into a collosal hassle, shoudn’t we at least expend the effort to keep known terrorist off airplanes, and bar them from entering the U.S.?
Is this really too complicated to figure out?
Smart Doggy
Where Is John Galt?
I recently tried to reread Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the epic novel of the power of the individual fighting against the collectivists, but, sadly, just couldn’t get through Rand’s turgid prose. Still, I highly recommend it to anyone trying to get inside the heads of socialists like The Obama, and most of Congress.
Big Government talks about the book and the current mess our country is in:
John Galt leads a revolt by the productive class and outlines Rand’s philosophy in his 60-page radio address. Here, he explains how human beings—alone among life forms—can choose to be mindless:
A living entity that regarded its means of survival as evil, would not survive. A plant that struggled to mangle its roots, a bird that fought to break its wings would not remain for long in the existence they affronted. But the history of man has been a struggle to deny and destroy the mind.
Sad to say, for a movement powered by the mindlessness, there is plenty of fuel to sustain “hope and change”:
•Who but the mindless can believe that government run health care will reduce costs and improve care while covering more people?
•Who but the mindless can believe that this President is now serious about reducing the deficit after shattering spending records during his first year?
•Who but the mindless can take seriously the sham “jobs summit” held by a President whose every policy is a lesson in job destruction?
•Who but the mindless can believe Obama’s lie that “Cash for Clunkers” which cost taxpayers $24,000 per car was successful?
•Who but the mindless would not outraged that our government has reneged on its promise pay back the unused TARP fund to taxpayers?
•Who but the mindless would not question the morality that the world’s finest health care, which has extended and improved human life in unimaginable ways—conceived and produced by countless unsung heroes in the private sector—should magically be transformed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi into a “human right”, taken over by the state and rationed out as they please?
The assault on reason by our President and Congress goes on ad infinitum. It is mindlessness that elected “hope and change” and mindlessness that sustains it. Ayn Rand recognized that the greatest struggle on earth is that between the individual and the collective, and to submit to the collective, the individual must lose his ability to think for himself. Howard Roark, hero of The Fountainhead explains;
The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain.
‘Religious Ceremony’
Among the practioners of the Religion of Peace setting off bombs and killing innocents is a sacrament.
From ABCNews:
Federal officials and police are interviewing a Nigerian man, who allegedly tried to “explode” a powdery substance aboard a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said.
The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information, and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.
The suspect was identified as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who according to federal documents is an engineering student at University College of London.
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.
From Bloomberg:
The passenger was trying to destroy Northwest Airlines Flight 253, and an explosive device failed, the Associated Press reported, citing U.S. intelligence officials it didn’t name. The passenger was subdued and the incident resulted in “minor injuries,” said Susan Elliott, a spokeswoman for Northwest parent Delta Air Lines Inc. in Atlanta.
The plane was moved to a remote area, and authorities interviewed passengers and rescreened luggage after the Airbus 330 landed at about 11:53 a.m. local time, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.
The incident occurred near the end of the flight, and the passenger who created the disturbance was among those injured, according to CNN. One person was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, the network reported, citing a hospital spokeswoman.
Why do we let these people in our country?
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