Posted on 12/27/2009 6:29:14 PM PST by reaganaut1
Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, said on Sunday that there was so far no evidence of a wider terrorist plot in what federal authorities said was an attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian man to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.
But speaking on CNN’S “State of the Union,” Ms. Napolitano said that the suspect’s claimed ties to Al Qaeda were “part of the criminal justice investigation that is ongoing.”
Although Ms. Napolitano said it would be “inappropriate to speculate” on such ties, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation over the weekend said that the claims of the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, were plausible, and that he saw no reason to discount Mr. Abdulmutallab’s account that he had obtained explosive chemicals and a syringe sewn into his underwear from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda.
Asked if Mr. Abdulmutallab was part of a bigger plot or whether he was a “lone wolf,” Ms. Napolitano replied, “Well, right now, we have no indication that it’s part of anything larger, but obviously the investigation continues.”
Ms. Napolitano was pressed on CNN as well as other Sunday news programs why Mr. Abdulmutallab, whose name was in the American intelligence community’s central repository of information on known or suspected international terrorists, had been allowed to board the trans-Atlantic flight in Amsterdam. Mr. Abdulmutallab, the son of a prominent Nigerian banker, was put in the database last month because his father had recently warned officials at the United States Embassy in Nigeria that he was concerned about his son’s increasingly extremist religious views.
“You have to understand that you need information that is specific and credible if you are going to actually bar someone from air travel,” Ms. Napolitano said on CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The fascist/socialist scum Obammy has hired to be his administration will say and do whatever their affirmative aqtion messiah tells them.
“...CNN was not able to independently confirm [Jason] Schuringa’s account....”
This was because when they called the Homeland Security department for confirmation the spokesperson there said, “We have no clue what happened on that plane. Was there an incident of some kind?”
Now why would you think that when Napolitano specifically said no. Say are you one one of those whackos with a bumper sticker on your car?
And there was a post of one of the guys that was in the airport before the flight and said a indian looking man got this guy on board without a visa claiming he was suddanese and he couldnt get a visa. It is amazing how fast they make these determinations.
String her up.
Janet Napolitano doesn’t seem to have any evidence of higher brain function either.
How would “Butch” Napolitano know? As soon as the terrorists ask for a lawyer we don’t ask any more questions.
I long for the good old days when we put panties on their heads to get them to talk.
No evidence? The attempted bombing itself is evidence of a wide ranging, wide-reaching, ongoing terrorist plot!
Pretending this is a one-off may suit this administrations wishes but it doesn’t reflect the reality. I suspect this event is getting little play from the White House because it is inconvenient.
Remember. this is a “criminal investigation”. No terrorism plot - move on.
I’ve seen some big assholes in my time - elephant’s rear; hippo’s rear; Al Gore’s rear.
But I defy you to tell me that Napolitano isn’t the biggest asshole in the U.S. Bigger than that of a cellmate’s of Big Horny Bubba.
If “stupid” were gold, she’d be the richest woman in the world.
God, somebody fire her before we have a “criminal investigation” of the nuking of an American city!
Bald faced liar Napolitano MUST GO:
From the Metro Detroit website:
Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.
Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.
While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time.”
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html
25 Brits in jet bomb plots
COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen.
It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet.
The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London.
They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike.
A Scotland Yard source said: “The great fear is Abdulmutallab is the first of many ready to attack planes and kill tens of thousands.
“We know there are four or five radicalised British Muslim cells in the Yemen.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2785733.ece#ixzz0awm8ZRLa
Janet “From Another Planet” Napolitano is a blithering idiot.
Janet-—reno or nepolatiano...what’s the diff??? BOTH DISGUSTING TOOLS.
Napolitano should be fired. She’s using her DHS position to stick her nose into places it doesn’t belong, and she’s not doing her job. I don’t care if she is a lesbian. We don’t need diversity that much. ;)
I am surprised that the term “terrorist” was even spoken by one of the Obama drones.
Should we be heartened?
After all, a muslim kills a dozen people and ZerO would not call it terror, and here’s another Muslim who kills no one that they are calling a terrorist.
Reality setting in?
Logically, the more “lone wolf” Muzzie attacks we get, the more reasonable it is to consider ALL of em potential terrorists....
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