Posted on 04/17/2013 4:14:25 PM PDT by raptor22
War On Terror: As the administration slashed the domestic bombing prevention budget by 45%, a top military IED expert warned such devices were coming, and an al-Qaida chieftain advocated their use within U.S. borders.
check this later today to see if we knowYes, it's too early to know if the bombing of the Boston Marathon was an act of foreign or domestic terrorism. But it's worth noting that one of the three devices in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing, for which the Pakistani Taliban took credit, was a pressure cooker bomb similar to those used to kill three and injure and maim some 173 others in Boston.
Pressure-cooker explosives have been used in international terrorism, and were recommended for lone-wolf operatives by al-Qaida's branch in Yemen, which gave a detailed description of how to make a bomb using a pressure cooker in a 2010 issue of Inspire, its English-language online publication aimed at would-be terrorists acting alone.
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, pled guilty to assembling a homemade bomb that nearly exploded in Times Square on May 1, 2010. Shahzad, who was sentenced to life in prison, reportedly attended a terrorist training camp in the province of Waziristan.
Naser Jason Abdo, a former U.S. soldier, was sentenced to life in prison last year after being convicted of planning to use a pair of bombs made from pressure cookers in an attack on a Texas restaurant frequented by soldiers from nearby Ft. Hood. He was found with the Inspire article.
Fort Hood is the Army base in Killeen, Texas, where Maj. Nidal Hasan, a self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah" shouting "Allahu Akhbar," opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians.
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“make it hurt”
No, No, No! Didn’t you get the script? It’s all because of the evil Republicans not letting Lord Obama have everything he wants no questions asked.
Wouldn’t it be nice if every budget item in the Fed budget were reduced 45%?
He cut the spending and then used our money to take himself and hundreds of his cronies- to go on many elite vacations.
its because of Sequester ! (also his idea)
As Obama said, because of sequester they couldn’t pick programs that are ineffective or outdated, we had to cut across the board.
So...
What programs are outdated or ineffective ? Why haven’t they already been cut 9so we didn’t have to do sequester in the first place)
Obama’s visit to Boston will cost more than the amount he cut the budget by.
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But they were all supposed to love us after he was elected....
Apr 24, 2012 – OBAMA ADMIN: THE WAR ON TERROR IS 'OVER' By BEN SHAPIRO, Breitbart News
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Yeah, except for gun grabbing measures.
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