Posted on 10/29/2010 7:22:13 PM PDT by kristinn
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Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said Friday that the packages seized in Britain and Dubai contained PETN, the same chemical explosive contained in the bomb sewn into the underwear of the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit last Dec. 25. That plot, too, was hatched in Yemen, a country that is regarded as one of the most significant fronts in the battle with extremists.
Ms. Harman, who was briefed by John S. Pistole, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, said that both packages contained computer printer cartridges filled with the explosive, but that one used a cellphone as a detonator and the other had a timer.
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John O. Brennan, the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, said that the packages containing explosives, which he compared in size to a “breadbox,” were undergoing forensic analysis and that the inquiry was at an early stage. He said investigators did not yet know how the explosives were intended to be activated.
He said the search for additional explosives was continuing. “We don’t want to presume we know the bounds of this plot, so we are looking at all packages,” Mr. Brennan said.
The latest plot underscored once again the threat from Yemen and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch of the terrorism network based there. Mr. Brennan called it “the most active operational franchise of Al Qaeda.”
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Badda Bing!
Of course, in this case 'computer' is 'laser'! Like journalists and editors, at the DHS/TSA, the more obfuscation the better!
or perhaps FREE BO! Add a can of stink to your medicine chest today!
> Not that Hussein cares, but is Bo going, too?
Of course! On his own GulfStream-5.
And they complained about Jimmy Bakker’s air-conditioned dog house.
I’ve heard reports that 0bama’s entourage to India includes 40 jets and 800 people. Both AF-1’s will be used, and both AF-1 helicopters will be disassembled and sent along as well. Oh, and the teleprompters are going along, too.
Oh, the Global Warming Humanity!!!
The decadent and ostentatious living of the Kenyan Usurper and his clingers-on is the most extravagant I’ve ever seen. No leader anywhere lives and spends the way this communist filth does.
Meanwhile, back at home, 15 to 20% of the people are out of work and losing their homes.
0bama is the WORST, THE WORST president this country has EVER had. EVER. Carter is a very close second, but 0bama is clearly THE WORST.
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