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Homeland Security Chief Urges Caution After Threat to Mall of America
New York Times ^ | Feb. 22, 2015 | By MARK LANDLER

Posted on 02/22/2015 1:58:57 PM PST by EternalVigilance

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top homeland security official urged shoppers on Sunday to be “particularly careful” in visiting the Mall of America, a sprawling shopping center outside Minneapolis, after it was targeted for a terrorist attack in a video posted by a radical Islamist group.

“If anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they’ve got to be particularly careful,” the official, Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, said on CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: braking; mallofamerica; minnesota; somali; somalia; somalians; terrorism
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To: Tailback

Correct. Guns are banned at Mall of America:

“•Guns are banned on these premises.”

http://www.mallofamerica.com/guests/security


101 posted on 02/22/2015 6:11:49 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Lmao I seriously thought it was to!

Mike


102 posted on 02/22/2015 6:16:43 PM PST by MikeinMotley
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To: circlecity
I’m not sure what good firearms are against a suicide bomber.

It's been done. Many years ago, in the late 1980's, in Tel Aviv a suspicious looking guy strolled into a Tel Aviv market in the middle of July and went to the epicenter of the market. A female shopper saw him coming and watched him carefully as he stood nearby. What made him suspicious? He was wearing a neck to ankle dark coat in 99 degrees of July day. When he opened his jacket to reveal the explosives wired to his entire body he held aloft the detonator and began the ALLAH-HU AK-- he wasn't able to finish before the female smoothly drew a handgun and shot him right in the head. Although western news media said the shooter was Israeli security forces, that's only true inasmuch as all Israeli citizens must undergo military training. Oddly enough, I read this in the Miami Herald and never forgot it, especially since the other media outlets changed the story. I always wondered if the writer or the editor got canned for that little slip.

103 posted on 02/22/2015 7:15:44 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: EternalVigilance

I bet the stores in the Mall are just SO GRATEFUL to our government for telling their customers to stay away.


104 posted on 02/22/2015 7:18:13 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: EternalVigilance
I have SEEN the video of the Nairobi attack that was made into a documentary and consists of the mall security footage of the actual attack with voiceover narration of what is happening. Seeing the victims cowering in fear waiting to be slaughtered by the wolves bearing AK-47s is almost unbearable. The footage of the "rescuers" Kenyan military forces is almost as bad. The only folks with any training or semblance of courage are the armed civilians or off duty SAS (as mentioned)

Finally, the military backed off after any ambulatory survivors near the exits had been evacuated and ASSUMING all the victims inside to be dead, they simply fire a cannon at point blank range into the heart of the mall. That basically brought the building down. But everytime I go to the mall either to see a movie (remember Aurora CO?) or to shop with my wife I remember Nairobi and I carry my Sig MK 25 (9mm) with a spare 18 rd mag or I carry the Sig P227 45 and a spare 10 rd mag. It's a pain to carry a full sized service auto IWB in the South Florida heat but the secret is in dressing correctly. Anyway, the purpose of carrying a concealed weapon isn't to be comfortable, it's to be comforting.

105 posted on 02/22/2015 7:26:55 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Edward Snowden released information about encryption keys being stolen by NSA and it’s UK equivalent. See https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

One line in particular stood out to me in that very long article: They said they were not interested in cellphone usage in Somalia. This is all being done in the name of “national security” but they are more interested in my phonecalls and emails than the communications in a hotbed that’s exporting terror?

Defund DHS. Now. If/when the Islamists make another mass attack in America it will undoubtedly prove - once again, like the run-up to and follow-up of the Boston Marathon bombing - that the people who are supposedly “protecting” us are incompetent at best. And given that they and the foreign enemy combatant-in-chief at the helm are holding the door wide open for the terrorists armed, funded, shielded from justice, and excused by them... I’d say it’s more likely to be DELIBERATE failure.


106 posted on 02/22/2015 7:30:00 PM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I was thinking the same thing. Just like how Bush orchestrated the hijackings to get into Iraq to steal their oil and flame the worldwide Islamophobia.


107 posted on 02/22/2015 7:30:44 PM PST by sagar
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To: txrefugee

DING!

We have a winner!


108 posted on 02/22/2015 7:37:05 PM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: txrefugee

My take as well. Timing is extremely suspicious.


109 posted on 02/22/2015 7:42:39 PM PST by madison10
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To: EternalVigilance
If I was President I'd ask the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to announce this:

“If anyone is planning to go to the Mecca today, they’ve got to be particularly careful."

110 posted on 02/22/2015 7:46:30 PM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: windcliff

“I see two ill-fitting suits.”

And I feel ill at the thought that this group is “protecting” us.


111 posted on 02/22/2015 7:53:53 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: windcliff

“I see two ill-fitting suits.”

And I feel ill at the thought that this group is “protecting” us.


112 posted on 02/22/2015 7:54:50 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: USARightSide

“How does one ‘be careful’ at a mall???”

C-O-N-C-E-A-L-E-D-C-A-R-R-Y


113 posted on 02/22/2015 7:55:37 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America; Travis McGee
Would Barry orchestrate a mass casualty attack on a mall in order to get Congress to FULLY fund the DHS? I guess we’ll find out. Remember the timing of Sandy Hook, right before the start of Barry’s attempted ‘gun grabbing’ 2nd term.

Now paging Travis McGee!EFAD

114 posted on 02/22/2015 8:25:07 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: fireman15
Ping!
115 posted on 02/22/2015 8:26:22 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: madison10

DITTO


116 posted on 02/22/2015 8:30:57 PM PST by fivecatsandadog ( IMPEACH THE TRAITOR. But don't loose your head over it.)
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To: cowboyusa

the bastards are inside the White House walls

117 posted on 02/22/2015 8:59:35 PM PST by devolve (They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. --Nathaniel Lee)
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To: txrefugee

Sad but I think it is a false flag as well.

I don’t believe a thing these people say.


118 posted on 02/22/2015 9:14:23 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Adversity does not build character so much as expose it.)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Perfect.


119 posted on 02/22/2015 9:27:31 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Pray. Work. Fight. Then pray some more.)
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To: windcliff

At least three.


120 posted on 02/22/2015 10:14:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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