Posted on 10/30/2010 5:44:03 AM PDT by MaestroLC
[Camron] was not briefed until shortly after 2pm, 10 hours after the package was found and 16 hours after Barack Obama, the US President, was informed of the threat.
Only at 7:45pm was a statement released by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.
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There were also questions last night about the confused response from British police, who were only prompted to admit the package had been found after reports emerged in the US - 13 hours after the event.
It was Mr Obama who broke the news that explosives had been discovered in the packages, a suggestion police sources in Britain had earlier dismissed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Here is my idea for new policy on imported shipments...Anything from a Muslim country sent to a Synagogue will be delivered secretly to a Mosque.
9/11 Commission Air Cargo Screening Mandate, Fake Terror and an October Surprise
News of suspicious packages arriving from Yemen plundered the country into a panicked state of fear Friday morning. Some are calling it a fake terror plot (see videos below) thanks to the Presidents remarks four days before the midterm election. Such an October surprise cannot be discounted entirely, but the point of this article is to chastise the Obama administration for dragging its feet on the 9/11 Commission air cargo screening mandate whether this particular scare today is a contrived fake terror plot or not.
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=7566
0bama sent the Brits a message on DVD, but it was formatted for the wrong region.
Rhetorical, right?
Heh.
Our security services aren’t in the business of glory hunting. They’re paid to deal with security matters in a DISCREET fashion, and that’s what they do. Ditto COBRA and the Prime Minister. That they don’t go running off to the media at the first hint of a successful interception of a terrorist device, is a GOOD thing.
I have this little cartoon in my head of Cameron talking to Obama: “Really? A Bomb? In Britain? Thanks for telling me! No, I didn’t know. But your guys are handling it. Thank God for the Americans, you’ve saved us all, yet again!”.
With a little thinks bubble next to it: “I really want to remind this narcissistic, pompous cretin that it was our guys who told his guys about it in the first place and at least I know when to keep my trap shut... No. Must be diplomatic. Must be diplomatic.”
Good call.
Do you know of a good summary article on that? I know what my impression is given the ongoing events at the time, but I haven’t seen a good post-mortem focusing on that.
Like that's going to stop Achmed from sending bombs to various cousins around other middle eastern countries and then on to the US and England. Or Achmed could just as easily walk them across the border to get them stamped from SA or Oman. Easier still, there's countless cells right here in America willing and able to do the job.
Testing securities. The obvious fake one was to grab our attention and then they just wait to see how fast we find the real one, or two, or three, or... Next time, we'll have to find them without the trail of breadcrumbs.
it may turn out that the Brits had the more sensible, non-politicized approach to working the matter quietly, while Obozo had to grandstand for the cameras b/c an election is a few days away
Ya know, I just realized to what extent I don’t believe anything my usurping government tells me. If Janet Napolotano told me I was sitting on a bomb, and I was, I would not believe her.
Though realistic, this is not good. The Marxist Onada and his band of angry commies must go.
Yeah---they need to throw in Joe Biden to fix things (/snix).
"Damn I shouldn't have split a keg with Obama. I can't even feel my damn leg."
And yet, nothing has blown up - nothing to what I hear right now. We are either faced with a disasterously incompetent enemy, or we are faced with a scheming, disasterously incompetent enemy - one that a large portion of this country voted for in the waning days of 2008.
Obviously other governments did there part in exposing this plot. But the Obama administration just wanted to cover it up, and had no concern for those other countries.
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