Posted on 12/25/2009 9:47:21 PM PST by cold start
Romulus, Michigan (CNN) -- A passenger on an international flight bound for the United States Friday ignited a small explosive device shortly before landing in a move the White House called an attempted terrorist attack, a senior administration official said.
Another passenger on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, quickly helped subdue and isolate the young male suspect with the aid of the cabin crew, passenger Syed Jafry said.
The suspect, identified by a U.S. government official as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was placed in custody and is being treated for second- and third-degree burns on his thighs, according to federal law enforcement and airline security sources.
The sources said the suspect flew into Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on a KLM flight from Lagos, Nigeria, and is not believed to be on any "no fly" list, although his name does appear in a U.S. database of people with suspect connections. He did not undergo secondary security screening in Amsterdam, the administration official said.
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I’d love to kick this guys ass.
On christmas.
Still makes me think Air France Flight 447 was taken out with a similar method.
I see they gave him medical care for his wounds.
If it was me, I would throw some bandages in his cell and tell him to stop bleeding on the floor.
That would be it.
we’ve spent all this time and all this money and yet we still haven’t the wherewithall to synchronize those listed as having terrorists ties with our no flight list? or secondary screenings for people who board planes in 3rd world countries?
And think about how Obama has apologized for America around the world.
He went to Cairo and made his speech where he was making nice with the Muslim world.
He has proudly proclaimed that “we do not torture”.
He has promised to close Gitmo, because the mere existence of Gitmo allegedly recruited more angry Muslims to the cause of terrorism.
He has frequently said that we haven’t always lived up to our highest ideals.
After everything he has done to make nice with the Muslim world, it defies believeability that this terrorist attempt could ever happen. (sarcasm)
Thank God for alert, active passengers on the plane who stopped the son of Allah. Feed him bacon in the hospital and later in prison.
I’d give him bandages soaked in oinkment. Oh, and a little sulfur works wonders on chemical burns.
A CNN reporter said this list was only that his name came up in cell phones and websites.
So he was on the list to be the list.
More pre 9/11 thinking.
“we’ve spent all this time and all this money and yet we still haven’t the wherewithall to synchronize those listed as having terrorists ties with our no flight list? or secondary screenings for people who board planes in 3rd world countries?”
Evidently!
“More pre 9/11 thinking.”
This is pre ‘93 thinking ... don’t know what’s worse, the muzzies attacking from without or from within ... he was bound for Detroit ... safe house in case it failed? Bets?
He’s a mussie, and we’d have to deflee and wash the cell after he’s done anyway.
No bandages, no care: lock the cell and see how long it takes him to starve.
A slight revision in the plan: ensure that he’s located where his screaming won’t disturb the pedophiles...
Air France Flight 447 Of course that is what happend to it.
he was bound for Detroit ... safe house in case it failed? Bets?
They do not need a safe house with the ACLU and AG Holder.
Oh No!!!! we are profiling again.
They do not need a safe house with the ACLU and AG Holder.
True...but no where in the whole US would be better for him to be than Detroit if he needed a temporary safe haven...until Bammy could protect him.
That doesn't sound much like an Amish name to me...
Oh - wait... terrorist attack... by a... shock-and-awe.... Religion of Peace® adherent? NO WAY!!!
We don’t have the backbone to fight such a battle - unless the nuke happens first. That and we get a non-muzzie president in the office.
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