The Terrorists’ Best Weapon: Intelligence Failures – by Ryan Mauro
Almost a decade after 9/11, information to stop al-Qaeda is still stalled.
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Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot – AP
An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday. “This is not the first time this group has targeted us,” Obama said, reporting on some of the findings of an administration review [...]
Flight 253 jihadist is “the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years”
Funny how that keeps happening. “Al-Qaeda ‘groomed Abdulmutallab in London’,” by Sean O’Neill and Giles Whitell for Times Online, December 30 (thanks to Kris): The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect organised a conference under the banner “War on Terror Week” as he immersed himself in radical politics while a…
Willful Blindness – by Jamie Glazov
The Obama administration’s refusal to accept what’s causing Muslims to terrorize us.
Report: Iran looking to smuggle raw uranium from Kazakhstan
If the nuclear program is just for the peaceful generation of electricity, why all the secrecy, in this case and across the board? “Intel Report: Iran Looking to Smuggle Raw Uranium,” from the Associated Press, December 29: VIENNA — Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350…
Gabriel Schoenfeld: How the Left politicized the terrorist watch list — latimes.com
The case of the alleged Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is being called a massive intelligence failure. And the evidence thus far does suggest a possible lapse in the government’s management of terrorist watch lists. But if so, the blame doesn’t lie wholly with government agencies charged with maintaining the lists. Some share of responsibility [...]
Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack – by Andrew Cline
Why the new airport security measures won’t stop future bombing attempts.
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 [...]
Fort Hood jihadist consulted cleric about whether killing U.S. soldiers was permitted under Islamic law
But remember, this has nothing — nothing — to do with Islam, if you believe Army brass and, of course, Obama himself. That willful blindness has shown itself to be the root of the failures in intelligence (in more than one sense of the word) that led to this attack….
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