http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/waronterror/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:48:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418214/posts Intelligence efforts are said to be focused on finding those involved in the plot to get Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the Northwest Airlines plane with explosives in his underwear. Security officials are also likely to identify other "high value" al Qaeda targets who could be the target of strikes. The suggestion comes as US President Barack Obama condemned the "systemic failures" that saw intelligence about a Nigerian trained in Yemen planning a bomb attack squandered with the potential cost of hundreds of lives. Mr Obama called for "lessons to be learned" over the failures to link up intelligence. The... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418214/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:48:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418035/posts The leaders of the Detroit undie bomber’s Al-Qaeda group are Gitmo Grads and may have been represented by Eric Holder’s firm before their release. Two Gitmo grads rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia rejoined the jihad and made a movie earlier this year. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri (right) and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi appeared in a threatening Al-Qaeda movie earlier this year. Said Ali al-Shihri (or al-Shahri) passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. (AFP) The two set up their base in Yemen. This week... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418035/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417915/posts Delta Air Lines Inc. is offering travel credits to passengers on the Amsterstam-to-Detroit flight that a suspected terrorist tried and failed to blow up on Christmas. Spokeswoman Susan Elliott told The Associated Press on Wednesday the world's biggest carrier is notifying passengers about the vouchers. The amount wasn't disclosed. According to authorities, a Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al-Qaida tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as the plane was preparing to land in Detroit on Friday. It was carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members. Delta is offering its gratitude to one of the... ABC News - Money http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417915/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417882/posts I knew it would not take too long before deep sources inside the intel community would start to spill the beans about changes the liberal Obama administration made to our national security apparatus that were the likely (and I emphasize that for now) cause for terrorists having more success in hitting us in 2009 than any other time since 9-11. The Strata-Sphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417882/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417703/posts The United States prevented Dutch authorities from installing full body scanners before the suspected Christmas Day bomb plotter passed through security at Amsterdam's airport, the Dutch government claimed today. The Dutch claimed that they had been trying to install the machines for flights to the US since 2008 but had been blocked by US officials who wanted passengers to all destinations screened. Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417703/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417705/posts Times Square Shut Down Due To Suspicious Vehicle 42nd Street And Broadway Closed As NYPD Investigates Park White Van NEW YORK (CBS) ― The NYPD has closed down part of Manhattan's Times Square in response to a report of a suspicious vehicle, CBS 2 HD has learned. Police blocked off Broadway at 42nd Street just after 11 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a white 1992 Dodge van with tinted windows that has been parked at the location for two days. The van has temporary plates and a tarp is covering the windows, police say. WCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417705/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:37:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417732/posts A growing number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees are said to be returning to terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere.  The Pentagon most recently released a report in May showing that one in seven former detainees either returned, or is suspected of returning, to terrorist activity. At least two of them have taken leading roles in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group that has claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.  The Obama administration says it will proceed with caution in transferring any more detainees out of Guantanamo Bay but... FOXNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417732/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417779/posts A Muslim woman is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she was dismissed from the Atlanta Police Department’s civilian honor guard because she refused to remove her traditional head scarf. Helen Lane alleges that the head of the voluntary guard laughed at her when she told him she would wear her hijab at a September 2006 funeral. She said she felt “humiliated, hurt and was traumatized” by the laughter. Lane, who is seeking $240,000 in damage, said she told by another Atlanta official that “the hijab was like a swastika.” The city has denied the allegations and the honor guard... www.ajc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417779/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:25:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417810/posts BAUCHI: Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on Wednesday. An AFP reporter listed 42 bodies on the floor of the morgue in the city of Bauchi, all with bullet or machete wounds. Another 25 bodies, mostly young people including minors, had been placed in cold storage rooms. A morgue employee told AFP "the bodies were brought in on Monday" after clashes erupted in Bauchi between suspected members of a radical Islamist sect and security forces. Police... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417810/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417803/posts Do you think any administration officials should lose their jobs over airline security breach? FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417803/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:54:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417789/posts The US blocked Dutch attempts to install full-body scanners for passengers travelling to the US before the failed suicide bombing of a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day, the Dutch interior minister said today. Authorities at Schipol airport in Amsterdam had wanted to introduce the devices to monitor US-bound flights, but the scanners were not installed because US authorities wanted them to be used on flights to all destinations, said Guusje Ter Horst The disclosure could put further pressure on Barack Obama, who has come under criticism in the US after the security lapse that allowed a young Nigerian Islamist to... Guardian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417789/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:36:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417797/posts After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions. Over eight years after 9/11 and 30 years after the Iranian illegal seizure of the United States embassy and the 444 day Iranian hostage crisis, Washington is still avoiding being intellectually honest about the war we are in. Our Politically Correct Government is Making Life More Miserable For the Innocent America is long overdue for a serious global strategy that includes targeting threats such as the terrorist killer at Fort Hood, the individuals recently arrested in Detroit, Denver and New York, and... humanevents http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417797/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:47:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417794/posts (IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas publicly proclaimed three terrorists who murdered a Jewish father of seven children to be “shaheeds” – holy martyrs, according to a report by the PA media watchdog, Palestinian Media Watch. PMW Bulletins http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417794/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417787/posts Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber struck a forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, causing an unknown number of American casualties, a U.S. military official said. CNN.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417787/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417734/posts Rich. Educated. Westernized. Poor. Ignorant. Uneducated. Which is the group most likely to be a terrorist? Liberals would say the second. And they would be wrong. As usual. Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417734/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417640/posts The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner apparently turned to the Internet for counseling and companionship, writing in an online forum that he was "lonely" and had "never found a true Muslim friend." It appears he had a Short Fuse. President Obama was briefs 3 hours after the attack. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417640/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:16:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts Security: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the attempted destruction of Flight 253 were released from Guantanamo two years ago. The case for indefinite detention has been made once again, and not in Illinois. Sometimes America's chickens do come home to roost. In a statement released Monday, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which counts among its leadership two former Guantanamo detainees, claimed responsibility for the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, told FBI agents he was trained for his Christmas Day mission in Yemen by top leaders of the group who provided... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417324/posts A congressman who oversees American intelligence operations, a former CIA operative and an intelligence official agree that Christmas Day's aborted attack on a U.S. airliner proves that the nation's anti-terrorism efforts are flawed. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano praised the nation's aviation-security system Sunday but backtracked Monday, admitting the system "did not work in this instance." "Clearly, the system did not work," Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., told the Tribune-Review yesterday. Hoekstra is the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. "Success is not a person on a plane with an explosive," he said. "That is a failure. The system designed... PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417324/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:12:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417169/posts Flashback VIDEO: Obama Thinks America Will Be Safer Because His Sister Is Half Indonesian http://www.breitbart.tv/flashback-obama-thinks-america-will-be-safer-because-his-sister-is-half-indonesian/ Breitbart.TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417169/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:08:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417170/posts Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces. His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, alleged to be behind the attempt to blow up an American-bound aircraft, spent time in Yemen with al-Qaeda and was in the country only days before the failed attack. timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417170/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417066/posts The latest terrorist assault on air travel again shows the futility and incompetence of most government security measures to protect the flying public. The TSA initial reaction has been to ban going to the WC for the last hour of flying time because this is when the alleged terrorist went to the bathroom and prepared his low-tech firecracker bomb. So, what does this really mean as a deterrent? What a joke, the terrorist simply goes to the WC 1:15 minutes earlier to do the dirty deed. Once again, as with the shoe bomber, airline passengers in reality are the best... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417066/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:19:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417062/posts The US administration is heading towards placing "paralyzing" sanctions on Iran, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren said Tuesday. Speaking to Army Radio, Oren added that although it was "too early," the US had also not yet abandoned the military option. "The Americans attribute the highest importance to the Iranian issue," he said during the interview. "The US, along with other countries, is preparing to impose paralyzing sanctions on [Iran], and preparations are happening even now." Oren went on to reject claims that US President Barack Obama was trying to downgrade relations between Washington and Jerusalem, saying, "The man is... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417062/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417021/posts LAGOS, Nigeria – Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior. MSM makes me sick http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417021/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416883/posts A Muslim spokesman was interviewed on Fox this AM. When asked if he thought that full-body scanners at airports would improve security, he replied that Muslims would never stand for them because they would show the bodies of Muslim women. The interviewer let that pass without any protest. Fox Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416883/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:43:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416596/posts A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416596/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:01:47 GMT