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Obama Admin Blows It Again? Person of Interest in Times Square Bombing "Familiar" to Investigators
Monday, May, 3, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 05/03/2010 5:46:41 PM PDT by kristinn

CBS News is reporting the Pakistani-American allegedly tied by forensic evidence to the Times Square bombing attempt last Saturday is "familiar" to the Obama administration:

A source told CBS News that investigators are looking at a possible suspect, a Pakistani American, in the botched car bombing incident near Times Square. The source said forensic evidence uncovered in the vehicle led them to a Middle Eastern man’s name that was familiar to counter terrorism investigators.

Fox News reported the Obama administration knows the person of interest recently returned from Pakistan:

Federal authorities have identified a person of interest in Saturday night's Times Square bomb attempt -- a naturalized American citizen who was in Pakistan for several months and returned to the United States recently, investigative sources told Fox News.

...Sources say that evidence includes international phone calls made by the person of interest, who has not been identified publicly.

The Obama administration's familiarity with the person of interest is in keeping with recent failures by the Obama administration to stop terror attacks on American soil by those known to the administration to have suspected ties to overseas Muslim terrorist elements:

Fox News, June 2, 2009:

A 23-year-old convert to Islam with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said.

The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, reportedly had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested there for using a Somali passport. The probe was in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, according to ABC News.

While there, Muhammad — a U.S. citizen from Memphis who is a convert to Islam and was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe — studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, Jihadwatch.org reported.

Muhammad told authorities that he approached the recruiting center in Little Rock by car on Monday and started shooting at two soldiers in uniform, according to a police report.

ABC News, November 9, 2009:

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that (Fort Hood massacre terrorist) Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with an individual associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

Washington Post, December 27, 2009:

A Nigerian man charged Saturday with attempting to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day was listed in a U.S. terrorism database last month after his father told State Department officials that he was worried about his son's radical beliefs and extremist connections, officials said.

The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was added to a catch-all terrorism-related database when his father, a Nigerian banker, reported concerns about his son's "radicalization and associations" to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a senior administration official said. Abdulmutallab was not placed on any watch list for flights into the United States, however, because there was "insufficient derogatory information available" to include him, another administration official said.

Is the Times Square bombing attempt another example of the Obama administration's failure to connect the dots and stop yet another terrorist attack on American soil on their watch? So far, the evidence does not look good for Obama and his administration.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americainperil; enemiesignored; foo; nationalsecurityfail; nojustice; nosecurity; notransparency; notruth; obama; shahzadfaisal; soa; timessquare; timessquareplot
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To: True Republican Patriot
"Note that for the first two days after the TERROR ATTACK, The WHITE HOUSE directed to the MSM Puppets that it was a White Male, clearly trying to make it an attack by their alleged Right Wing Extremists which is an OUTRIGHT LIE!!"

.....yeah....and giving the miscreant a couple of days to cover his tracks and dissapear....

41 posted on 05/03/2010 6:27:55 PM PDT by spokeshave (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
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To: kristinn
Oh yeah. That one is just so great because he bounces around like a pinball between six or seven equally idiotic ideas!

Anything but the obvious answer.

42 posted on 05/03/2010 6:29:16 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ColdOne

See my post 29...I thought it was an unusual word for the situation...


43 posted on 05/03/2010 6:30:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
Wanna bet that somehow this Pakistani is related to someone 0bama knew when he was at Occidental College?

Yeah, how much?

44 posted on 05/03/2010 6:31:02 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: kristinn

The perp was obviously not concerned about the forensic evidence left in the vehicle because he assumed that the bomb would work. IF the bomb had gone off as planned all the evidence would have been incinerated.


45 posted on 05/03/2010 6:32:33 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: kristinn

So, the balding white guy, changing from a long sleeved t-shirt to a short sleeved on a warm night (shocking, I know) is off the radar now?

Jeez.......we are in sooooo much trouble with these fools!!!


46 posted on 05/03/2010 6:36:54 PM PDT by panthermom
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To: kristinn
CBS News is reporting the Pakistani-American

They had to stick "American" in there!

47 posted on 05/03/2010 6:37:41 PM PDT by vigilante2 (2337)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
Wanna bet that somehow this Pakistani is related to someone 0bama knew when he was at Occidental College?

One of these days, his Pakistani connection is going to come tumbling down around his head and no one, from Bill Ayers, George Soros, the Emanual Twins or anyone else is going to be able to salvage the Usurper. He will go down in flames.

Or eventually someone is removed from the equation...

48 posted on 05/03/2010 6:39:48 PM PDT by antivenom (OBASTARD must become a "Half Term President" * Impeach the anti-Constitution Bastard!)
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To: kristinn

During Lemon’s segment on CNN this evening while running the story and tapes of the “white guy”, the question “what do you think of the TEA Parties? xxx-xxx-xxxx” was scrolled along the bottom of the screen.

It’s interesting to watch and read what the Obamabots are taking in as gospel.


49 posted on 05/03/2010 6:47:14 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: kristinn
Who considers a Pakistani a white man? The Obama Administration, through its new agency MSNBC, was desperate for this perp to be white.

It was such a good fit with the statement about Hispanics being harassed when they take their kids out for ice cream with the Rev Al singing a chorus of RACIAL PROFILING in the background.

BTW, has Obama made any statement at all about this?

50 posted on 05/03/2010 6:52:22 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Just another loony nationalistic egotist.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

new = news


51 posted on 05/03/2010 6:53:16 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Just another loony nationalistic egotist.)
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To: kristinn

WOW!!


52 posted on 05/03/2010 6:58:38 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: kristinn

To busy chasing Tea Party old ladies...................


53 posted on 05/03/2010 6:58:47 PM PDT by 2aberro
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I’ve been voting conservative since 1972 and for the first time in my life I’m ready to forego summer in order to vote.

We’re approaching “never-never-land”.

54 posted on 05/03/2010 7:00:53 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: kristinn

We gotta get those damn right wing Pakistani Muslim Tea Party people under control! This is making us look bad.

/s


55 posted on 05/03/2010 7:06:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: tractorman; Scythian

We are in never-never land.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506017/posts
(Scythian - -just a courtesy ping)


56 posted on 05/03/2010 7:07:24 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Just another loony nationalistic egotist.)
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To: Spunky
This politician must be related to the one you posted:

An archeological team, digging in Washington DC, has uncovered 10,000 year old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first Politician.


57 posted on 05/03/2010 7:08:43 PM PDT by SloopJohnB (OBAMA: Its hard to make a comeback when you have not been anywhere)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Who considers a Pakistani a white man?

Chief Moose?


58 posted on 05/03/2010 7:10:27 PM PDT by satan
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To: panthermom

That “ blame the white guy” moment was pick up by every major news outlet. It was obvious that he was not the perp.

Racial profiling.


59 posted on 05/03/2010 7:22:48 PM PDT by ChiMark
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To: kristinn

So the first action of the American government was
to blame white Americans .. and get a posse of lawyers
to protect the terrorist(s).

America deserves a Darwin Award, but will get worse.


60 posted on 05/03/2010 7:25:22 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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