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Al Qaeda's Clear Message
WSJ ^ | 12/29/09 | Editor

Posted on 12/28/2009 9:05:02 PM PST by Nachum

Apparently the fellows in al Qaeda took as a personal insult Secretary of Homeland Anxiety Janet Napolitano's comment Sunday that their role in the foiled Detroit airliner bombing wasn't clear but would be investigated. Yesterday, al Qaeda's ascendant franchise in the Arabian peninsula saved Secretary Napolitano the trouble of plowing through all the layers of the national-security bureaucracy for an answer.

The terrorist organization put out a pointed statement not only claiming responsibility but also mocking the U.S.'s ability to stop them. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, they said, "dealt a huge blow to the myth of American and global intelligence services and showed how fragile its structure is."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: al; clear; message; napolitano; qaedas

1 posted on 12/28/2009 9:05:05 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

It would be interesting to know how much Obama has changed the war on terror from the Bush Administration. Something we will most likely not ever know.


2 posted on 12/28/2009 9:07:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Nachum
Today Marc Steyn called her....Janet Incompetano

An apt description, indeed!

3 posted on 12/28/2009 9:14:31 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Trust the Lord with all your heart.......)
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To: Nachum

Secretary Incompitano will be out with a statement soon warning us that we musn’t jump to conclusions, that this “apparant communication” is “being analyzed by experts” and that we’ll “know more in a few weeks, when the investigative process has a chance to play out.”


4 posted on 12/28/2009 9:15:53 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Nachum

Al Qaeda’s real and clear message: We will continue to impliment “bleed-until-bankruptcy” strategy.

http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32759.pdf


5 posted on 12/28/2009 9:37:53 PM PST by cranked
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To: Nachum

Apparently the terrorists got the message that the war on terror is over with. Two terrorists attacks in two months.


6 posted on 12/28/2009 9:37:54 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

I betcha that Barry is feeling so sulky and hurt these days.

How could those meanies attack America after all he has done to kiss up to them? How dare they interrupt his well-deserved Hawaiian vacation with this icky stuff. Don’t they know he has a Nobel Peace Prize???


7 posted on 12/28/2009 9:51:25 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Ronin

It’s orchestrated crap to to deflect from the ‘healthcare’ crap they’re trying to shove down our throats. Maybe I have my tinfoil hat screwed on too tight. I do not believe anything about what is going on these days. Distraction???


8 posted on 12/28/2009 9:55:47 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: Nachum
But, but, "the system worked"!


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 12/28/2009 11:25:02 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: mplsconservative

Nah. I don’t believe it’s orchestrated.

I just think it shows how incompetent this administration is at trying to run the country.

They don’t have the brains to pull off and orchestrated attack because they’d get caught at it big time.


10 posted on 12/29/2009 2:21:27 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Nachum
Al Qaeda has sent a message to the Obama Administration: You are in a war. Someone in our government needs to say clearly that they now understand the message.

A real commander in chief would:

1-Immediately declare the perpetrator as an enemy combatant, tell his lawyer to take a hike, and begin the water boarding.

2-Ask Yemen if they like Iraq's new form of government.

11 posted on 12/29/2009 2:26:48 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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12 posted on 12/29/2009 5:17:48 AM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: Nachum


13 posted on 12/29/2009 5:26:00 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: Nachum

Al Qaeda’s Clear Message

Fruit of the boom.
Please can we hit reset yet? I want all these people who represent us in name only to be put in orange jumpsuits and sent to GITMO with the other terrorists.


14 posted on 12/29/2009 7:37:16 PM PST by Blonde
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To: Nachum
AQ's goals are the same as the global elite.....

They want us all dead. We're using their carbon units and oxygen.

15 posted on 12/29/2009 7:40:17 PM PST by stboz
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To: Nachum

bump


16 posted on 01/02/2010 6:54:32 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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