US learned about alleged extremist links of airline bomber as he was in the air - Developing

Drudge Report ^ | Jan 5, 2009

[jackv]

Meanwhile...

[VeniVidiVici]

U.S. border enforcement officials came close to stopping the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet while the suspect was en route to Detroit on Christmas Day, new data show.

LOL! If the bad guy had half a brain and had been successful I'm sure the passengers would care less if they had come close to stopping him or not.

[dragnet2]

Disregard...I posted this in breaking earlier, it went away, then popped up again, then was completely taken down...lol

[garjog]

Perhaps the reason that they didn’t warn the pilot was that the administration treats terrorists like criminals. Mustn’t accuse someone of a crime without evidence. Might violate their rights and all.

Instead we should be treating these guys as soldiers in a war against us.

[KJC1]

Drip, drip, drip.

Obama and his cronies (and various and sundry libs) tried to “no big deal” this incident, and now it is unraveling.

But, the pressing question is: “Mr. President, did you have ice cream in your shave ice?”

[Eroteme]

Huh? Way after the fact they try to feed us this story to show us *the system worked*? CYA, IMHO.

How does admitting they KNEW there was a suspected terrorist aboard help them? If this supposed to be CYA, then they're even more incompetent than we imagined. This info makes them look far worse. They knowingly endangered lives and acted in reckless disregard for the safety of the passengers and thousands of souls in the flight path. Before this, HS could only be charged with being incompetent boobs. Now, they're certifiably insane, criminally negligent incompetent boobs.

[Mygirlsmom]

Why did they NOT notify the flight aircrew / pilot so that he could be closely watched!!!

Apparently they must not have been thought it to be a very big deal...after all, they waited until THREE HOURS after the plane landed to let the Vacator-In-Chief know about it.

[keepitreal]

U.S. border enforcement officials came close to stopping the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet while the suspect was en route

Close is not good enough when a man has a bomb on a plane.

[DoorGunner]

>>”U.S. learned about alleged extremist links of airline bomber as he was in the air... “

1. We are told that the mad bomber boarded the plane without showing his passport.

2. Now, we are told that PSA learned about him while on the plane.

The only reason for him to elaborately evade showing a passport would be to hide his identity, so how did his name get on the manifest?

DG

[B-Cause]

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"de omnibus dubitandum"
doubt everything (especially from our government)

[BlackjackPershing]

If this happens, our Republic is ruined forever.

[granite]

There is only one possible solution. The device was intentionally disabled in advance.

[Chode]

please...

[granite]

It disappeared as soon as I posted my theory about the device being inert to begin with.

[granite]

How does admitting they KNEW there was a suspected terrorist aboard help them? If this supposed to be CYA, then they're even more incompetent than we imagined. This info makes them look far worse. They knowingly endangered lives and acted in reckless disregard for the safety of the passengers and thousands of souls in the flight path. Before this, HS could only be charged with being incompetent boobs. Now, they're certifiably insane, criminally negligent incompetent boobs.

... unless they KNEW in advance the device was a dud.

[azishot]

I was trying to be sarcastic. They are incompentent boobs. Why else would they put out a story like this days after it happened saying they knew he was on board? They think it’s expected of them?

None of it makes sense.

[granite]

I was trying to be sarcastic. They are incompentent boobs. Why else would they put out a story like this days after it happened saying they knew he was on board? They think it’s expected of them? None of it makes sense.

It makes sense if they knew ahead of time that the device was bogus and the dude was being setup.

[azishot]

How far ahead of time? Before he got on the plane? During the flight?

Think we’ll ever find out? I don’t think so.

[Marty62]

So What.
The terrorists was already on the plane.
Just a little late I would say.
Or they expected the pasengers to take him out.
This is getting worse by the day.

[Domandred]

If true Obama’s f-ed. If it’s a CYA Obama’s f-ed. Either way he’s f-ed.

People will remember and it will be used in 2012 election year.