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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 7, 2010
Bl e e d i n g he a r t s a n d Ji h a d i re v O l v i n g dO O r s
Sen. Joe Lieberman privileged son of a Nigerian public official. victed mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bomb-
was right to sound He lived a “gilded life,” as the Independent of ing that took the lives of 17 American sailors
the alarm about Ye- London described it, studying engineering at in October 2000. Despite being sentenced to
men in the wake of one of Britain’s most prestigious universities the death penalty, escaping twice from jail
the Undy-Bomber’s before training for terror in Yemen. and being indicted in the U.S. on terrorism
Christmas Day terror Media sympathizers have spotlighted charges, the Yemeni government freed him
attack over American Abdulmutallab’s web postings bemoaning in 2007 in exchange for a promise that he
skies. But he was his “loneliness.” But more compassion and renounce his old infidel-murdering ways.
wrong to call it “to- empathy -- the remedy Barack Obama pre- More than two dozen of Badawi’s jailbreak
by michelle malkin
morrow’s war.” The scribed in an infamously clueless Chicago buddies, including bin Laden’s former sec-
Syndicated Columnist
Yemen-based jihadist community newspaper op-ed after the Sept. retary, Nasir al-Wahayshi, reunited to form
network has been at 11 attacks -- are useless salves to the ter- the jihadi training team that now claims it
war with us for years -- since before the Iraq rorist’s damned soul. Like so many of his supplied Abdulmutallab with his incendiary
and Afghanistan invasions, since before Sept. wealthy, educated jihad brothers and sisters device.
11 and well before our current commander in before him, from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Yemen human rights activist and blogger
chief had begun his vaunted work as a com- Sheikh Mohammed to Fort Hood mass killer Jane Novak has reported for years on how
munity organizer. Nidal Hasan, M.D., Abdulmutallab targeted Yemeni intelligence and military officials have
The bleeding-heart ostriches of the left are us for who we are -- dirty, unbelieving infidels facilitated al-Qaida training camps -- often
blaming (who else?) cowboy George W. Bush -- not anything we’ve denied him. providing “safe houses, training and pass-
for radicalizing poor, oppressed Yemenis. And for his failed act of self-eunuchery and ports to the jihadists that travel to Iraq to
But the killer fruits of botched bomber Abdul mass murder, the all-too-enlightened lead- attempt to kill U.S. troops.”
Farouk Abdulmutallab’s loom have nothing ers of al-Qaida in Yemen and beyond hailed The Yemeni government, Novak points out,
to do with poverty, social injustice, Western Abdulmutallab as a “hero.” has also used al-Qaida mercenaries to fight
imperialism or Bush Derangement Syn- Another of these “heroes” in Yemen is Ja- northern rebels and train tribal militias.
drome. The fundamentalist Muslim is the mal Muhammad Ahmad Al Badawi, the con- See malkin on 25
te r r O r 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. - bomber.” One can only imagine what items ready on a “terror watch list” could board a
Thank God for ward- of clothing we will have to remove in order to commercial airliner with a bomb in his pants
robe malfunctions. fly in the future. - Barack Obama roused himself to comment
On Dec. 22, 2001, A day after the attempted murder of 288 on the matter. Though his administration
Richard Reid failed passengers and crewmembers in the skies previously barred using the term “war on ter-
in an attempt to blow over Michigan, Homeland Security Secretary ror,” the president referred to the incident as
up American Airlines Janet Napolitano claimed Abdulmutallab an “attempted act of terrorism” and claimed,
Flight 63 using 50 failed because “when it came right down to “The United States will do more than simply
by Oliver north
grams of the explo- it, the system worked.” Two days later, Na- strengthen our defenses.” He also acknowl-
Syndicated Columnist
sive PETN and be- politano apparently received new “guidance” edged that “there was a mix of human and
came known as “the from the vacation White House in Hawaii. systemic failures that contributed to this po-
shoe-bomber.” Since On Dec. 28, she reversed course and said, tential catastrophic breach of security.”
then, we have all had to remove our footwear “Our system did not work in this instance,” Unfortunately, neither Obama’s nor Na-
prior to boarding commercial aircraft bound and added, “An extensive review is under- politano’s words are particularly reassuring.
for U.S. airports. way.” She has yet to recant her bald assertion Both refer to “systems” - as though they can
On Christmas Day eight years later, Umar that there is “no indication” the incident is “fix it.” But the “system” for securing com-
Farouk Abdulmutallab, wearing a bomb connected to a “larger plot.” This is of course mercial aviation isn’t broken - it doesn’t exist
made from 80 grams of the same explosive, the same secretary of homeland security who - and radical Islamic terrorists know it.
attempted to bring down Northwest Flight 253 warned us in April last year that the “greatest U.S. civil aviation has been the Islamic
en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. Had this threat to U.S. security” is from “right-wing radical-Jihadist weapon of choice since the
23-year-old Nigerian-born, Yemini-trained extremists” and “disgruntled military veter- 1980s. Efforts by successive administrations
al-Qaida terrorist succeeded, he might have ans.” to put defensive security measures in place
revived Detroit’s economy through casket fter three days of silence - and scores of - from air marshals to government-employee
sales alone. He hid the device in his crotch finger-pointing leaks about how an individual airport screeners to high-tech passenger and
and is now infamous as “the underpants known to U.S. intelligence services and al- See nORth on 18
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