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Officials Now Claim They Learned About Extremist Links Of Airline Bomber While He Was In The Air
Maybe I’m being cynical, but something about this just doesn’t sound right. U.S. Border security officials are now saying they learned of the airline bomber’s terror ties after he was already in the air heading for the U.S. They were planning to question him once he landed in Detroit.
U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt as he was en route to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials said in new disclosures today.
"The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection," said a senior law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. "The decision had been made. The . . . database had picked up the State Department concern about this guy, that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen. . . . They could have made a decision on whether to stop him from getting on the plane."
Just a couple of days after President Obama criticized the intelligence community for it’s failure to connect the dots we hear this story? Like I said, maybe I’m being too cynical but this sounds like a heaping helping of CYA to me.
They really did connect the dots, honest! They were a little slow so he was able to get airborne, but you can bet your sweet bippy he was going to br questioned once he landed! Seriously, he really was!
Yeah, right. This sounds like typical bureaucratic BS to me.
The “Flying Imams” Want What???
photo courtesy of sadlyno.com
If you thought you’d heard the last of the notorious “Flying Imams” you were just plain wrong. It seems there trial is now in the discovery phase and what the Imams are asking for might make your heart skip a beat.
I don’t have the strength to rehash the “Flying Imams” case point by point so you’ll just have to read about it. Suffice it to say that a group of disgruntled Imams represented by the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trouble with a capital T. As we’ve reported numerous times, the Justice Department has said repeatedly that CAIR is affiliated with Hamas.
So imagine the shock when attorney and CAIR President asked the court for this:
Omar Mohammedi, attorney for the imams, and President of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, went first. His motion was for the judge, Arthur Boylan, to compel US Airways to divulge its training manuals, and information on its security procedures, so that they could show that the security procedures were not followed down to the last jot and tittle when the imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on November 20, 2006.
That ladies and gentlemen is chutzpah in its purest form. Only in America could a group of Imams led by a Hamas linked organization demand the security and training manuals for a U.S. airline and do so with a straight face.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip to LGF)
