http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/homelandsecurity/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:24:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419408/posts On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419408/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419384/posts The ongoing controversy surrounding the debate over illegal immigration and border security issues in the United States, specifically as it applies to the porous U.S.-Mexico frontier and the status of millions of undocumented workers and other migrants that enter the country each year from Mexico, continues to dominate headlines. Although the overwhelming majority of those entering the United States from Mexico each day are in search of opportunity, many observers worry that it is only a matter of time before al-Qaeda exploits this vulnerability for its own ends. In assessing this threat, Muslim communities in Mexico have come under increasing... Jamestown Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419384/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 08:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419355/posts One of America's top military leaders says Yemen-based terrorists helped plan the Christmas Day, December 25, plot to blow up a U.S. bound airplane. General David Petraeus told reporters in Baghdad Friday that the U.S. and Yemen have been sharing information about al-Qaida in the country, including activity that "resulted in the failed attack on the airliner." The head of the U.S. Central Command said Yemen has carried out "very significant" operations against al-Qaida, some of which prevented a series of suicide bombings. General Petraeus said the United States is helping Yemen, but that its neighbors have also provided significant... Voice Of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419355/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:49:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419277/posts Maybe there will be peace in out time, After almost one year into the promised bi-partisan Presidency of Barak Obama, there is finally an issue that seems to be uniting Democrats and Republicans, DHS Secretary Janet Napalitano. The person charged with protecting America has been an absolute train-wreck as the head of Homeland Security. It started early in her tenure when the DHS decided to stem terrorism with a program of profiling. While the intention was right on, the execution was a bit off. Instead of targeting people like radical Islamists, Napalitano's DHS wrote a document recommending to law enforcement... Fox News / The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419277/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:35:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418545/posts A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street. When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad. They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks. "It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and fortifications," said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on the North Freeway. That type of rocket... Click2Houston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418545/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:23:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419080/posts Please feel free to copy (don't link, it uses my bandwidth) and circulate. The Stentorian (cartoons) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419080/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418968/posts On August 1, 2001, Hollywood actor James Woods witnessed four men of Middle Eastern appearance engaged in suspicious behavior on a transcontinental flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Mr. Woods’ first public recounting of his observations was five months after 9/11 on The O’Reilly Factor. During that February 15, 2002 broadcast, Mr. Woods stated that the suspicious behavior of the four men “would have been blatantly obvious to the most casual observer.” Investigation ultimately confirmed that the actor witnessed a “practice run” for the 9/11 hijackings. He ultimately learned that all four men he observed aboard his flight were terrorists... CAnada Free Press/ Northeast Intelligence Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418968/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:55:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418618/posts Here is video from Fox News today where former FBI Assistant Director Steve Pomerantz and former Homeland Security official Scott Weber talked about the preliminary report President Obama was to receive today on the attempted terrorist bombing on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Weber said Obama needs to move swiftly, because reports indicate there are at least 25 other terrorists in Yemen prepared to launch similar attacks. "We don't have much time," Weber said. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418618/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418518/posts According to a news report out of Houston this morning, police there found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher like the one shown in the photo above, alleged to belong to a man by the name of Nabilaye I. Yansane, in a southwest Houston apartment complex. Though I have yet to see comments by members of the Obama Administration in response to the news about this weapon, I have some ideas about what they might say Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418518/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:54:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417863/posts TSA (Thousands Standing Around) now get to check out naked chicks in between wanding old ladies and releasing classified manuals on-lineAll because Western Civilization doesn't have the collective testicular fortitude to tell suspected barbarians they can't fly.  That and the fact that incompetent bureaucratic boobs didn't have the foresight or initiative to merge the terrorist database with the no fly list. Flying is not a right, it is a privilege, like driving. You meet a certain profile, you don't fly. Period.Ride your goat, Ahmed!The Founders set up a government to protect the liberties of free and moral people.  We lock... Western Hero http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417863/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417841/posts Much has been written recently since ThreatsWatch first broke the story of President Obama’s stealth Executive Order (EO) rendering an international police force immune from the restrictions of the Constitution and American law. Reports are focusing on the ramifications of the EO to U.S. sovereignty and the potential surrender of Americans to war crime tribunals in the International Criminal Court (ICC). But is the President using the 2(c) provision to sidestep Constitutional law and place the U.S. under the jurisdiction of the ICC without ratification of the UN Treaty by 2/3 of the Senate? Or is he granting unrecognized authority... NewsReal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417841/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:51:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417694/posts Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had announced his sympathy for jihadi terrorism. Yet so crippled by political correctness is today's America that no one blew the whistle. Instead, he was sent to Fort Hood, where he opened fire on Nov. 5, killing 13 and wounding 31. Almost two months later, the current administration still can't bring itself to identify Hasan as an Islamic terrorist. They can't even decide to allow soldiers to carry self-defense arms on U.S. military bases. Next -- even as the uniformed goons known as the Thousands Standing Around were pointlessly strip-searching little old ladies in every airport... Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417694/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416494/posts Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that "the system worked" with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Monday, she was backpedalling, acknowledging that "our system did not work in this instance." In truth, for a lot of Americans, Ms. Napolitano has not had much credibility since she tried to ban "terrorism" from the official lexicon of her department. But arguably the most serious indication that she is wholly ill-equipped to carry out her present responsibilities can be... Center for Security Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416494/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416955/posts No conspiracy here, right Janet? Blog theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416955/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:22:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416912/posts I mean seriously, does it take a rocket scientist to figure this out? Let's look at the outlined red flags that the terrorists handed to us on a silver platter.Romulus, Michigan (CNN) -- Part of an explosive device that failed to take down a plane last week was sewn into the underwear of the Nigerian man accused of igniting it, a law enforcement official told CNN Monday.The group said it tested a "new kind of explosives" in the attack, and hailed the fact that the explosives "passed through security”.Al Qaeda said in a released message:“There was a technical problem that... TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416912/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:22:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416791/posts On Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claimed that the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam to Detroit flight last week demonstrated that "the system worked." On NBC's "Today" show on Monday, she claimed that her comment was taken out of context, and that she agrees that the system "failed miserably." Ms. Napolitano's second attempt at honesty was just as disingenuous as the first. In her interview on Monday morning, she claimed that her reference to the system working just dealt with how security responded after the attack had been thwarted. . . . Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416791/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:36:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416389/posts Even a hungover, nearsighted, cross-eyed, Spanish Fighting Bull could have seen this guy coming a mile away. Umar the Islamic Jihadist Terrorist, whose actions should have raised more red flags than even the Russian Army owns, tried to blow up a commercial flight to Detroit with a Panty Bomb. The myriad of red flags, any one of which would have been enough to have prevented you or me from ever boarding our flight, didn’t even slow him down as he flew from Nigeria to Amsterdam and then on to Detroit. Why is it that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a last minute,... NetRight Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416389/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:10:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416381/posts I believe the terrorists must know this. They pick the flights from Amsterdam for a reason. It’s no coincidence that two different Nigerians chose to cause a ruckus on the exact same flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on two different days. Hmmm . . . did the system work? Sure doesn’t sound like it if she can’t even insist on U.S. Air Marshals on flights from Amsterdam. If they had any cojones–and even though she looks like she’s of that gender, she doesn’t–the Obama administration would have told the Dutch, “No air marshals, no flights from Amsterdam to anywhere near... Debbie Schlussel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416381/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:55:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416346/posts FBI: Man Flew Into NYC From BWI With Firecracker Passenger Taken Into Custody After Explosive Device Found Wedged Between Two Seats On Piedmont Airlines Flight Into LaGuardia NEW YORK (CBS) ― A passenger who flew into LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night was questioned by FBI agents after allegedly boarding the flight with an explosive device in his possession, CBS 2 has learned. Officials confirmed Monday that a crew member on board Piedmont Airlines flight 4126 was cleaning the plane after it landed in New York around 7:30 p.m. when he found a large firecracker-like device wedged between two seats. Port... WCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416346/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416328/posts More good news on the terrorism front, this time from ABC’s Brian Ross, who reports that Umar Abdulmutallab says “more like me” will be coming to the US. Al-Qaeda has launched a new offensive against the US using the international air travel system, and that the US has not completely grasped the significance of the attack on Christmas Day. The British seem to have a better handle on it: Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416328/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:43:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415780/posts Despite mounting evidence of a sophisticated international plot to bring down a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, the man charged in the thwarted attack — who was on U.S. officials' radar for years — was never considered a sufficient threat to keep from flying. The alleged Christmas Day terrorist had been in one of the U.S. government's largest terror databases since November, when his father brought him to the attention of embassy officials in Nigeria. But Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came to the attention of intelligence officials months before that, according to a U.S. government official involved in the investigation. The... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415780/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413542/posts Through his DHS secretary, President Obama continues to make life in the United States more dangerous. Janet Napolitanto is doing everything she can to stop the enforcement of immigration law in the US. She has said that she will only concentrate on "criminal aliens" when enforcing federal immigration law. But wait if they came into the US illegally aren't they ALL "criminal aliens?" She has also directed her department of homeland security to gag local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens. Like the POTUS, Napolitano believes that protecting our borders is a racial... judicial watch/the lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413542/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413527/posts Target: YOU Google Video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413527/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411783/posts In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport. The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located about 60 miles north of New York City. Stewart is a major passenger airport for the state’s mid-Hudson region that also handles large quantities of cargo and serves as a military field. The illegal aliens all had security badges approved by the Transportation Security Administration... Juducial Watch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411783/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407642/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds over the next five years. The load selected for this contract is a 135-grain, hollow point designed for the office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection. It will fall under the Winchester Ranger line. Gun Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407642/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:45:53 GMT