Posted on 01/04/2010 7:09:46 PM PST by Clive
OTTAWA -- As the clock ticked down to the inauguration of Barack Obama, the RCMP was investigating urgent, high-level U.S. fears that Somali extremists from Canada were poised for a spectacular attack on the historic ceremony, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.
In the days and hours leading up to the Jan. 20, 2009 inaugural on the steps of the Capitol building, the monumental threat unfolded in Washington and at the National Security Criminal Investigations unit at RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa.
About three days earlier, an informant walked into an overseas U.S. embassy and claimed that Canadian disciples of al-Shabab, the al-Qaida-inspired Somali militant group, had crossed the northern border and intended to detonate high explosives at the event, a source close to the investigation confirmed to the Citizen. Al-Shabab is an outlawed terrorist organization in the United States, but not in Canada.
A major FBI terrorism probe, soon involving much of the country's national security and intelligence analysis apparatus, deemed the tip to be increasingly credible, according to The New York Times.
The information was taken so seriously, the incoming administration made contingency plans in the event Obama was assassinated, the Times reports.
"All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving quickly that had an overseas component," Juan Carlos Zarate, former president George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, told Times White House correspondent Peter Baker.
The threat seemed to weigh on Mr. Obama, too, writes Baker: "He cancelled a practice session to go over his inaugural address with aides at Blair House. David Axelrod, his senior adviser, later interpreted that as a sign that Mr. Obama was thinking about the suspected plot.
"He seemed more subdued than he had been," said Mr. Axelrod.
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NOPE...not going to read the whole thing....just wondering WHY this is NOW being discussed.....razzle dazzle...look the other way.....sheesh.
As opposed to Canadian extremists from Somalia.......
No comment as I don’t want to be banned.
Why post this headline when it was all a hoax?
Soulda Coulda Woulda, lol.
Well, if any of this is actually true...why does he continue to apologize and cow to radical islam??
The reason Somali whackjobs are turning up stateside is not because all Somalis are extremists, but because a sizable contingent of the people who have to means and expertise to make up fake reasons for getting refugee status are extremists. Unfortunately, the refugee program is a sieve - a haven for undesirables of every stripe. The average refugee won’t tell an immigration official what he really thinks of America, but he will tell his children, day-in and day-out, so that their extremism exceeds even his.
An anonymous tipster walks into an unnamed embassy and the RCMP soon decides it's a hoax? I don't see President Bush getting all weeweed up about something like this. Obama is a coward, on top of everything else.
So, why was this story released NOW? I suspect that Obama ordered it. The National Post is typical left-wing slimy MSM, and they would be only too eager to jump in and please the One on his orders.
It's Obama's way of saying, "Look, I'm important, too. In fact, I'm the most important person in the WORLD! So stop attacking my administration because some idiot tried to blow up a plane full of peons over Detroit, and start worrying about ME, ME, ME.
*bookmark* .... no wonder so many, including Bush, Obama, Cheney all looked so nervous....
I think there’s something psychologically wrong with someone who voluntarily decides to pack weak explosives around their privates.
BUT
Godzillary asks the best (???) question which is: if the explosion goes off in the back of the crowd, does Barry leave the stage. Um... gee... I... uh...
Was she just hoping that subsequent blasts would take out everyone in line to the presidency except her? Would he just pretend he was in Springdale Middle School’s Spring Fling Lip-Synching Festival and keep going??????
“Pay no attention to the thumbs, elbows and livers that you’re being showered with. There’s been a slight disturbance at the back of the crowd, but the good news is, I’m not quite finished reading my speech.”
Worse, men wearing dark glasses could come knocking on your door.
The article is a total HOAX?
Your comment you won’t post is the same comment that lots more of us can’t post.
Your comment you won’t post is the same comment that lots more of us can’t post.
I say, bring 'em on.
The attack was a hoax
Thank you very much for enlightening me.
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NO thanks. I know already that some Muzzie Skinnies would never take out one of their own, even if they had been forced to eat peameal and listen to Gordon Lightfoot for a few months.
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