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:
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.
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.
It’s chilling to think that, for the second time in six months (the underwear bomber and now this), a tragedy on U.S. soil has been avoided solely because of a failed detonation.
Heck of a job, Janet. Heckuva job.
Well, they don’t want to “connect” dots.
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You’re SO right .. on the contrary, I
now truly believe there’s nothing that
would please them more.
They could make it a super excuse for
martial law and total govt control of
everything.
It’s too sickening for words .. Lord,
help us. We must increase our prayers.
STAR...I hope you remember Who is in control.
I’m not worried one bit...
His mercy has been with us .. I know that.
They were all reporting this as some white guy that perpetrated this dirty deed that was almost a success. Shame on the commie news media! You people that make up the media keep trying to pin this all on a white guy; it really getting tiresome.
On one hand today, TMI. We’re in overload. On the other hand, the administration nearly missed this “person of interest” - the plane had left the gate and Holder told us nothing new during his middle of the night “news conference.” The ‘naturalized US citizen’ has to appear in court later this morning, so we’d better get up early!
Good night, dearest STAR! We pray.
“An angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”
FYI,
Also via T
MPOTheHill
RT @PressSec: The President was briefed 6 times yesterday abt the investigation and notified of the arrest at 12:05 AM all by John Brennan.
23 minutes ago via Seesmic
mmmmmmmmmm lets see now...mussie scum and a registered Democrat.
Please let me know if I’m thanking you too much. [grin]
Great post, Kristinn.
Thanks!
Heck, he probably served on the transition team with Major Hassan.
OK, they know who he is, but they’re not saying.
That raises the question, why not?
The perp knows who he is. His friends and helpers know who he is. The perp now knows that he has been ID’d by the authorities.
So, who are they hiding this last bit of information from? Why not release the name of the suspect, so maybe someone might rat on him to the authorities?
Only explanation I can think of is that they don’t want to tell US. They don’t want WE THE PEOPLE to know. And the news media eagerly helps spread lies about bald white tea partiers and people who don’t like Obamacare.
It never gets old.
His Communist friends and family and mentors taught to hate America at every step in his life.
I agree with you. This administration seems to be putting the pieces in place that will be the most likely to create or intall undercover plants who will create violence in the streets so Obama can declare martial law, and undertake wholesale arrests and purges,and institutions, in the way of his idols: Castro, Hugo Chavez, Mao, Stalin.
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