When Security Trumps Common Sense – by Dennis Prager

I am not prepared to obey rules that hurt the innocent while doing nothing to prevent terrorism.

A Failed Anti-Terror Strategy – by Jamie Glazov

Nothing Obama is doing will make a recurrence of the terror attempt on Flight 253 any less likely.

Imam tied to Fort Hood and Flight 253 jihadists wrote in October that Yemen would soon be a big player in the global jihad

“And when this new front of Jihad starts in Yemen it might become the single most important front of Jihad in the world.” “U.S. Probes Cleric’s Tie to Jetliner Bomb Plot,” by Evan Perez, Margaret Coker, and Siobhan Gorman for the Wall Street Journal, December 31 (thanks to Maxwell): WASHINGTON…

Bring Back Profiling And Leave The Rest Of Us Alone

In a flip-flop worthy of John Kerry (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told airline passengers that the security system was working just fine  before conceding that there was a major break down in the system on Christmas Day.  But for a bungling terrorist [...]

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Spencer: Flight 253: The Failure of Counterterrorism

In the lead story in Human Events today, I discuss the abject failure of our national approach to counterterror: The chief lesson of the attempted jihad attack on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day is that our entire anti-terror strategy is a huge and abject failure….

Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack – by Andrew Cline

Why the new airport security measures won’t stop future bombing attempts.

Obama ignores Flight 253 jihadist’s ties to Al-Qaeda and Fort Hood imam, calls him “isolated extremist”

“Transcript of Obama remarks on airline security and terror watch lists,” from the Washington Post, December 28 (thanks to Christopher): [...] A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism, and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. [...]…

Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack – AP

Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation’s system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist. A senior U.S. intelligence official said authorities were reviewing the procedures that [...]

Two “Middle Eastern” men detained after acting suspiciously on flight to Phoenix, CAIR leaps into action

Since apparently nothing was found on these guys, this one has already become a pretext for CAIR cries of “Islamophobia.” In CAIR’s “American Muslim News Briefs” was an item entitled “AIR: Plane Incidents in Ariz., Mich. Raise Profiling Concerns.” It noted that “in Arizona, two ‘Middle Eastern’ men were removed…

Thirty flight crew members stranded in Medina, can’t venture outside because they’re non-Muslims

If they did venture out, the could be killed. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: “Crew members stranded in Muslim holy city,” from Herald Scotland, December 18 (thanks to Twostellas): Thirty Flyglobespan crew members are stranded in the Muslim holy city of Medina in Saudi…