Posted on 12/25/2009 2:32:51 PM PST by Fred Nerks
I believe a few planes were turned back or diverted for this sort of thing under Bush. I do agree that an ultimatum should be given to the nations that don’t recognize our no fly list.
On the other hand, the no fly list has shown itself to be pretty flawed on too many occasions.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
My guess is that we're dealing with know-nothing reporters. Suggesting that someone trying to ignite some exposed powder was lighting an explosive is enough to call for close examination of the entire story.
ML/NJ
You’re probably right, but it still burns me up thinking of us being dictated to by these punk-a** nations. But then I remind myself: President Barak Obama. And I realize, this is all small stuff.
Well, I’m certainly not going to argue with you that reporters, on the whole, are know-nothing.
Time to kick each and every Muslim out of this country. Religious freedom you say!!!???? Religious freedom is for peaceful assembly and people who obey the Ten Commandments, not for blood thirsty animals from the 12th century.
Stop this ROP sh*t!
If you read the article carefully, I think you will find that the words ‘powdery substance’ and ‘device’ are used.
Can you use a little imagination and combine this information to come up with ‘powdery substance contained in a device’?
You are making it sound as if the perp was trying to set off a handful of loose powder. Why?
Because that's how the article reads. No one talks about igniting gunpowder when someone fires a bullet.
ML/NJ
However I do hear that Helen Thomas is available...
No! It was NOT FIREWORKS.
The guy had powder strapped to his leg and a volatile liquid to pour on the powder to make it explode.
This is just more of the PC police allowing a “no fly” person on an aircraft. Unbelievable stupid - and somebody needs to get fired.
Stupidity Alert!!
And then there is this line:
“The motive of the Christmas Day attack was not immediately clear.”
I’m sorry I bothered...
They attack us on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday and Sunday...but it's not clear why they would attack on Christmas Day...
ML/NJ
WHAT WAS?
NBC, msnbc.com and news services
updated 12:50 a.m. ET Dec. 26, 2009
ROMULUS, Mich. - A Nigerian man tried to light a powder aboard a commercial jetliner before it landed Friday in Detroit in what senior U.S. officials called an attempted act of terrorism.
Flight 253 with 278 passengers and 11 crew members aboard was 20 minutes from the airport when passengers heard popping noises, witnesses said. Passengers saw the attempted attack, and at least one of them jumped on the man and subdued him, airline officials and passengers said.
The man had “some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite” in a bag strapped to his body, U.S. officials told NBC News. Other officials told NBC station WDIV-TV of Detroit that the device was a mixture of powder and liquid, which failed to ignite when the passenger tried to detonate it
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001
Did they read him his Miranda rights, before questioning him?
Will AG Holder, prosecute him, or send him back to Nigeria, for recycling?
Is his tribe related to Obama’s?
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