Our Own Weakness Created the Crotch Bomber
By Michelle Malkin | 12/30/09 | 12:35 AM EDT | 7 Comments
Sen. Joe Lieberman was right to sound the alarm about Yemen in the wake of the Undy-Bomber's Christmas Day terror attack over American skies. But he was wrong to call it "tomorrow's war." The Yemen-based jihadist network has been at war with us for years -- since before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, since before Sept. 11 and well before our current commander in chief had begun his vaunted work as a community organizer.
The bleeding-heart ostriches of the left are blaming (who else?) cowboy George W. Bush for radicalizing poor, oppressed Yemenis. But the killer fruits of botched bomber Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab's loom have nothing to do with poverty, social injustice, Western imperialism or Bush Derangement Syndrome. The fundamentalist Muslim is the privileged son of a Nigerian public official. He lived a "gilded life," as the Independent of London described it, studying engineering at one of Britain's most prestigious universities before training for terror in Yemen.
Media sympathizers have spotlighted Abdulmutallab's web postings bemoaning his "loneliness." But more compassion and empathy -- the remedy Barack Obama prescribed in an infamously clueless Chicago community newspaper op-ed after the Sept. 11 attacks -- are useless salves to the terrorist's damned soul. Like so many of his wealthy, educated jihad brothers and sisters before him, from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan, M.D., Abdulmutallab targeted us for who we are -- dirty, unbelieving infidels -- not anything we've denied him.
And for his failed act of self-eunuchery and mass murder, the all-too-enlightened leaders of al-Qaida in Yemen and beyond hailed Abdulmutallab as a "hero."
Another of these "heroes" in Yemen is Jamal Muhammad Ahmad Al Badawi, the convicted mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bombing that took the lives of 17 American sailors in October 2000. Despite being sentenced to the death penalty, escaping twice from jail and being indicted in the U.S. on terrorism charges, the Yemeni government freed him in 2007 in exchange for a promise that he renounce his old infidel-murdering ways. More than two dozen of Badawi's jailbreak buddies, including bin Laden's former secretary, Nasir al-Wahayshi, reunited to form the jihadi training team that now claims it supplied Abdulmutallab with his incendiary device.
Yemen human rights activist and blogger Jane Novak has reported for years on how Yemeni intelligence and military officials have facilitated al-Qaida training camps -- often providing "safe houses, training and passports to the jihadists that travel to Iraq to attempt to kill U.S. troops."
The Yemeni government, Novak points out, has also used al-Qaida mercenaries to fight northern rebels and train tribal militias. Jihad spiritual advisor Anwar al-Awlaki, linked to the Sept. 11 hijackers and Fort Hood mass killer Hasan, also calls Yemen home -- and reportedly blessed the Crotch Bomber attack, according to The Washington Times.
Now, the Yemen government has the gall to blame the West for not providing enough assistance to stop the breeding of hundreds of future flying Crotch Bombers.
America, unfortunately, is hardly in a position to criticize Yemen's jihadi revolving door. ABC News reported this week that two of the four jihadi leaders behind the Christmas Day terror plot were released from Gitmo during the Bush administration in November 2007. (What a quandary for Bush-bashers who have stubbornly denied that Gitmo recidivism threatens our national security.) The freed detainees were shipped off to terror-friendly Saudi Arabia, where they underwent "art therapy rehabilitation" -- the ultimate bloody brainchild of the jihadi-as-victim mindset.
In January 2009, the two "rehabilitated" recidivists released a video vowing to wage jihad to "aid the religion," "establish the rightly guided caliphate" and " fight against our enemies." One of the duo, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September 2008.
Another Yemeni at Gitmo, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, was convicted by a U.S. military tribunal in the last days of the Bush administration for conspiring with al-Qaida, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism. He had scripted the videotaped wills of two Sept. 11 hijackers and boasted of making a two-hour al-Qaida commercial designed to recruit suicide bombers, according to FBI testimony. The recruitment ad celebrated the U.S.S. Cole bombers in Yemen.
Hundreds of Yemeni detainees at Gitmo abandoned the benefit of the doubt years ago. Yet, Attorney General Eric Holder's law firm, Covington and Burling, has provided dozens of them pro bono legal representation and sob-story media relations campaigns. True to form, former Covington and Burling lawyer Marc Falkoff dedicated a book of Gitmo detainee poetry to his Yemeni suspected terrorist "friends inside the wire." And the White House is rolling out the red carpet to bring them to U.S. soil for civilian trials.
At a time when we should be disabling the jihadi revolving door, its rotating shaft is spinning out of control.
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There's an old saying in law, "if you can't pound the facts, pound a table." That's just what the left-wing cry babies are doing. They won't pound the source of the problems, i.e., Barack Hussein Obama II, so they are reaching into the history books and pounding Bush. They figured it worked during Barack Hussein Obama II's campaign so it'll work now. Wrong.
Warning? or mere precognition? Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University gave an interview to the Financial Times, he said, “If Republicans want hearings into what happened, it could very well raise questions about Bush-era failures and that would be politically dangerous.”
See http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9747974-f49c-11de-9cba-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
More to the point is the present Administration's fundamental failure to understand what the hell they are doing. We've got a bunch of yahoos playing White House and the bonus is that they get to plunder the country at will. Case in point:
12-27-2009 London Independent on Sunday Newspaper Headline: "Video Clip Warned of Fresh Terror Attack". "Al Qaida warned of a terror attack just days before a former British student allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers, it was revealed tonight." More, "Security services on both sides of the Atlantic were under scrutiny as it emerged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to board the jet with explosives despite warnings of his extremism, including one from his millionaire father." PAY ATTENTION TO THIS QUOTE: "Abdulmutallab claimed he received training and instructions from al Qaida operatives in Yemen, US law enforcement officials said."
See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/video-clip-warned-of-fresh-terror-attack-18 51418.html
Reconcile that COMPETENT REPORTING, with this:
12-27-2009 L.A. Times Headline: "Janet Napolitano sees NO sign of a wider terrorist plot" . . . "The Homeland Security chief says it's too early to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has ties to Al Qaeda. Sen. Mitch McConnell says U.S. officials should have kept the suspect from flying." The article goes on to state, "Napolitano said that 'right now we have no indication that it is part of anything larger.' " [What a DOPE Napolitano is!]
(See http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-terror-plane28-2009dec28,0,6963038.story)
That same L.A. Times article states that "In the December 21 video posted on extremist websites affiliated with al Qaida, a bearded man in head-dress, identified as Mohammed al-Kalwi, says: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God. "O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America.' "
On 12-27-2009, The London Telegraph Headline reads: "Detroit terror attack: MI5 hunt for bomber's accomplices" Yes, Britain's MI5, its equivalent to the CIA, "is hunting for possible accomplices of the Detroit airline bomber amid fears that he may have been planning to launch the attack from Britain." Imagine that! Accomplices!!! AND, ABC is pointing out that there may be tie between this terrorist to the Fort Hood Jihadist murderer. But Napolitano - the DOPE - says, no indication its part of Al Queda. AND, what does Barack Hussein Obama II DO? HE GOES ON VACATION!!! He's on the friggin Golf Course!
Get this: On 12-27-2009, the Financial Times reported that "the suspect’s father, Umaru Mutallab, former chairman of First Bank, as saying he alerted authorities to a potential risk posed by his son some months ago." THEN, we learn that his son a Nigerian, "obtained a multi-entry tourist visa to the US in London, was on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database." BUT our stupid Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano (the "HOPE" DOPE) said "the names of more than 500,000 people with possible terrorist connections figured on the database, established after the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11 2001." She rabbits on, that “It doesn’t seem there was more information to put him to no-fly. You need information that is specific and credible if you’re going to bar people from air travel,” she said."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9747974-f49c-11de-9cba-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
WHAT DID BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II DO WHEN HE WAS FORWARNED? NOTHING
Instead, Barack Hussein Obama II does what he claims to do best, that's rhetorical offense in the form of "damage control" tailored at fixing his own reputation of growing gross negligence. He enlists a campaign of denial to flood the airwaves and inconvenience AMERICAN travellers -- NOT the terrorists -- who are entering our Country at an alarming rate. Are we still calling them terrorists?
As an aside, just what did that bomber think he was going to do when he got to heaven with all those virgins awaitin' on him without a crotch?
Wow. That comment was longer than the article itself. Since I could not figure out which one to read first I skipped both. Thanks Tank.
Where are the FACTS in what YOU-ANONYMOUS wrote. You're just a liberal hot air mouthpiece for Barack Hussein Obama II. That's soooooooooooooooooo obvious.
Thank you Anonymous for not disappointing us.
Can't stand the heat? That's a good thing.
Make no mistake, we're all thrilled that you're expending the manhours trolling us and taking time to comment--or not comment--or making the point of telling us you're not reading. To do any of that, means you are engaged. Your fingerprints here and at other sites like this, are important to all of us.
Readers take heed that Anonymous is one of the Obamabots, a blogger enlisted to neutralize all Barack Hussein Obama II's bad press and negative comments. A job getting harder by the minute.
For the gang of Eight Republican Senators who voted in 2007 against a bill to beef up airport security? Eighty-five right minded Senators voted for the bill and 7 were absent. Jimbo DeMint led the gang of Eight who voted against this bill. He and those who support his wrong-headed votes need to do some 'spaining. I travel on intercontinental flights from ECU airports and I shudder to think that DeMint and his gang don't much care about my safety...
"Privacy" trumps keeping crotch bombers off the commercial airliners that I travel on. Ideologues such as McClintock have no common sense. And McClintock is the ideologues' ideologue...
Barack Hussein Obama II PROMISED to bring all of our troops home. NOT. Typical broken campaign promise just to get elected. He lied. lickety split. He lied. Sha bam. He's a liar.
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