Qatari joking smoking non-shoe-bombing diplomat was on his way to meet jailed Al-Qaeda jihadist

Just a coincidence. Just a coincidence. Just a coincidence. Just a joke. Just a joke. Just a joke. “Qatar diplomat was to meet jailed terrorist,” by Matthew Lee and P. Solomon Banda for The Associated Press, April 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON — A Qatari diplomat…

John Brennan and the Politics of Capitulation

Obama’s national security deputy apologizes for America before an Islamist imam.

Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away – FOXNews.com

WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday. The terrorist organization is deploying operatives to the United States to carry out new attacks from inside the country, including “clean” recruits with a negligible trail [...]

Charles Krauthammer: The Real Detainee Scandal

WASHINGTON — The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control [...]

Bin Laden: Bad Attention Is Better Than No Attention

Bin Laden has released a new audio tape to claim responsibility for the Christmas Day airline plot that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula tried to carry out. It’s sort of like the 7th grade girl who tries to take credit for hooking up two friends who everyone knew were already pursuing [...]

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Stephanie Gutmann: Doing Security the Israeli Way – The American Spectator

“Let’s do things the way the Israelis do.” That’s the latest buzzword in airline security. It’s nice to hear the Israelis being praised for something, but if we don’t understand what the Israelis do, we’re just going to be adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already overloaded system CNN spent an hour interviewing Isaac [...]

Obama takes steps to bolster security – latimes.com

Declaring that “the buck stops with me,” President Obama on Thursday released the results of an internal investigation into the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt and ordered a series of incremental measures meant to close gaps in the U.S. intelligence system that failed to detect it in advance.The president avoided blaming any particular agency or [...]

NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas attempted jihad attack

After all, why not? There was no need for him to cut short his vacation. He already knew that the attacker was a lone extremist and that the attack had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or with a global jihad, which doesn’t exist anyway, so why not keep skiing?…

“Shock” U.S. report due on attempted airline attack – AP

WASHINGTON Reuters – The White House was poised to release a report on Thursday that top aides said will shock Americans about security lapses that allowed a Nigerian man to come close to blowing up a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.President Barack Obama, in remarks scheduled for 4:30 p.m. EST 2130 GMT, was set to [...]

Stopping the Next “Underwear Bomber” – by Alan M. Dershowitz

How rigorous but vital security precautions could prevent the next terrorist tragedy.