Posted on 12/26/2009 1:37:37 PM PST by reaganaut1
The Nigerian man accused of trying to ignite an incendiary device aboard a trans-Atlantic jetliner on Friday came to the attention of American officials at least “several weeks ago,” but the initial information was not specific enough to raise alarms that he could potentially carry out a terrorist attack, a senior Obama administration official said on Saturday.
The investigative file was opened after the father of the suspect, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, warned officials at the United States Embassy in Nigeria of his son’s increasingly extremist religious views, the official said.
“The information was passed into the system, but the expression of radical extremist views were very nonspecific,” said the senior administration official, who has been briefed on the inquiry but spoke on condition of anonymity because it is continuing. “We were evaluating him, but the information we had was not a lot to go on.”
The incident prompted a significant change to airline security on Saturday. Domestic and international passengers will not be allowed to move about aircraft during the last hour of a flight, and there will be extra screening of baggage at airports.
It was unclear whether Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name was entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, which includes people with known or suspected contact or ties to a terrorist or terrorist organization. That list is maintained by the United States National Counterterrorism Center. It includes about 550,000 names.
Those people, however, are not necessarily placed on the federal government’s so-called no-fly list, which prohibits persons entering the United States because of known or suspected terrorists links. Mr. Abdulmutallab was not on that list, federal officials say.
Mr. Abdulmutallab [...] was carried off the plane handcuffed to a stretcher, his trousers sheared off.
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No matter. We still have to have every single passenger subjected to enhanced security measures from now to doomsday, and it doesn’t matter how much warning that mutt’s daddy tried to give “the authorities.”
Tough luck, Charlie. That’s Obama’s policy!
But if you are a member of the Tea Party, you’re a radical!
Pathetic!
Don’t you feel safe with old Janet in charge of Homeland Security? Now she’s changed the rules so you can’t stand up and walk around. Anyone say anything about his guy getting up and walking around? No, I didn’t think so. Yet old Jamit thinks keeping people in their seats is going to keep planes from blowing up.
Now is he on the no-fly list?
“Yet old Jamit thinks keeping people in their seats is going to keep planes from blowing up.”
She’s upset because the hero got out of his seat and stopped him...
“She’s upset because the hero got out of his seat and stopped him...”
And if you’ve seen my posts in the past, I don’t use the term “Hero” a lot.
Nope. Just to the restroom and back.
what the hell is it about this ‘religion’ that attracts so manyt followers?
I cannot for the life of me see anyone converting TO Islam for any reason
It would seem more like something you should try to escape from your whole life
So, instead of tightening up on known Muslim extremists who get on airplanes without even a passport, they plan is to increase harrassment of everyone else.
Yeah, that’ll really work.
I am SO GLAD that I no longer have to fly very often.
So now we have last call for bathroom breaks and the muzzies just use that opportunity. Next, the bathrooms will be shuttered and you will be forced to pee in a bottle in front of 3 witnesses all because we can't filter by profile.
Look at all the information and warnings they ignored that led to the attacks of 9-11. This is nothing new.
Ah, so THAT’S how 0bama got in!
EGGSactly Batman!
The Government gets very nervous when the Sheeple attack the wolves instead of cowering in the corner.
People who act and stop bad guys learn and teach others that they don't need Government doing everything for them and we can't have that now can we!
Escape...We read it every day....Christian wannabe executed....
I have a circa 1850 book.....There is a vivid picture of a "warrior" on a horse with the caption: "A Sword in one hand and the Koran in the other". The Religion: Total state control: Total extinction of non mulims.
You don't live in a mud hut with no utilities and no hope of ever bettering yourself. They sell Religion as a way to paradise by blowing up people and getting a first class ticket to heaven and dozens of virgins to attend your every need.
It may sound far fetched to us but to people who are likely to die young of sickness and malnutrition its not that hard of a sell.
That is why I applauded Bush's decision to invade Iraq and Nation Build. If you change their economy and infrastructure to where people aren't living on the edge of starvation and can better themselves that nonsense extremist crap can't take hold. But it will take years of work to change. The Nutjob fanatics know it and will try and destroy all efforts to stop Iraq becoming a capitalist Economy with Free Elections.
Just for your information, this guy is filthy rich...so that “poor” of an excuse is mute on this one! And I don’t recall osama bin laden being too poor either.
Oh no not all are poor some are just nuts but if they didn't have a ready made population of poor and downtrodden people to recruit from their movement would be far less worrisome.
BTW Bin Laden does not strap explosives to his chest to kill people, he gets poor ignorant retches to do it in the name of Allah and for the cash he gives the family of the poor fool.
ookkk so why this one did it? His father is rich...man...I cannot find a way to find any excuses for these guys. Sorry. This one was NOT poor.
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