Posted on 12/27/2009 6:15:32 AM PST by RobinMasters
US authorities have known for months that the al Qaeda-linked Nigerian who tried to blow up a passenger jet before it landed in Detroit had terrorist ties -- and his own father even alerted them to his extremist behavior, it was revealed yesterday.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who was charged in federal court with attempting to destroy Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, remained hospitalized with burns suffered in the failed attempt.
He was read the charges at a hearing, where he appeared smiling in a medical gown and a wheelchair.
Several key details came to light yesterday:
* Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen sewed into Abdulmutallab's underwear a condom filled with three ounces of a nitroglycerin-like compound after he spent a month training with the terror organization, sources told ABC News.
"One flight attendant asked him what he had had in his pocket, and he replied, 'Explosive device,' " according to the Justice Department.
* Abdulmutallab was added to the 550,000 suspects on a watch list kept by the US National Counterterrorism Center in November and had been on government radar for months. Yet there wasn't enough negative information about him to put him on the no-fly list.
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Is that Bush’s watch list?
Old useless, tortured to get, information not up to standards of the Obama administration.
Too much profiling, you know.
Check out the below for when we really knew about him.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912260001.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415319/posts
You are not being suspicous; just smart.
Read my post #19.
I truly believe this will be where the smoking gun will be at. I would love to know what policies Obama put in place to stop profiling Muslims so that something like this could happen.
We need to investigate.
Yet there wasn’t enough negative information about him to put him on the no-fly list.
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umm hum - and if I even SAY the word “bomb” in jest, close to a plane, I can be prosecuted. Anyone reported as a threat to our safety should be restricted from planes. Period. Take a taxi, rent a car, but stay out of the air.
Dont worry folks everything is fine.
They solved the problem by not letting anyone go to the toilet for an hour before landing.
Duh.
By the way I would not have bought my ticket with cash had I been him. I would have charged it and stuck it to the credit company.
“Then why was he allowed to enter the country????”
Because to the leftist leaders of this country multicultuarlism trumps all. This guy hit a trifecta: He was black, a foreigner, and a muzz. Just the kind of guy our leaders would coo over.
“When will Obama ever take responsibility.”
Are you kidding? ObaMugabe is the poster child for the mindset that no one is responsible for his or her own actions. That has been the cornerstone of leftist ideology from the very start.
“This guy hit a trifecta: He was black, a foreigner, and a muzz. Just the kind of guy our leaders would coo over.”
LOL! Good point.
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