King: Airline bombing suspect had 'significant terrorist connections'OK, so
By Michael O'Brien - 12/25/09 08:38 PM ET
The suspect in an alleged attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas was on a list "indicating significant terrorist connections," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Friday.
King, the top Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, described the suspect in the attempted bombing of a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit as a 23-year-old Nigerian national with potential ties to al-Qaeda.
"He is a 23 year old Nigerian who is also - it's been confirmed to me - while he was not on a no fly list, his name was on a list for having terrorist connections," King said during an interview Christmas evening on CNN.
Mark my words....
Though it is more likely to be an example of the return of 'The Wall' than anything else...
UPDATE: Let me add a separate but related thought... If this jihadi was able to get as far as he did because he boarded a flight in relatively security-free Nigeria (hint: outside the USA), and then didn't get another security screening in Amsterdam (again outside the USA), then why do American holiday travelers now have to get the third-degree from TSA (hint: inside the USA) on their way home from Grandma's??
UPDATE II: Welcome Instapundit readers, and Merry Christmas! Let me take this opportunity to ask that you spread some of your own Christmas cheer and support deployed and wounded service members this holiday season. Consider donating what you can to a worthy cause such as Fisher House or Soldiers' Angels. Thank you for any generosity....
6 comments:
It's not the devil makes flying machines go, but despoiled strippers. We seek virgin strippers by blowing planes up. We kill people to get virgin sex in heaven. Really. That's what drives us. Virginity. It sounds odd to YOU, but we take it very seriously, at the Islamic Nut Company.
Can you tell me how this guy got a visa to enter the US with "significant terrorist connections"!!!! I´m not a US citizen and I know how you are treated each time you have to get a visa. How come that they treat everyone as potential terrorists EXCEPT the guy who actually IS!
State Department are a BUNCH OF IDITOS.
"There IS no terrorist threat!"
- Michael Moore
"On the way to Grandma's" Ha!
Try GRANDMA herself.
My 92 -- soon to be 93 -- year old mother was selected for a pat down 2 weeks ago on the way back home to me from my sister's in CA.
My middle aged sister was travelling with her. My mother cannot walk without assistance and walks with one of those 4 wheeled seated thingeys.
Now I know the next strategery of the Islamic terrorists will be to use blue eyed, totally white haired 4'4" grannies with walkers travelling with middle aged family member(s). It is mathematically predictable.
I think the TSA does it to illustrate that their searches are random and not profile based.
Heaven and the ACLU forbid.
... why do American holiday travelers now have to get the third-degree from TSA (hint: inside the USA) on their way home from Grandma's??
Because the TSA isn't about security. It's about getting Americans to accept intrusive inspections and control by government agents, that they wouldn't have accepted before 9/11.
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