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Muslims, Arabs, and Nigerians in the Detroit area held a demonstration yesterday outside the courthouse where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arraigned, to speak out against terrorism. Major LGF kudos to them. Detroit — Muslims, Arab-Americans and Nigerian-Americans stood together Friday outside the federal courthouse downtown to speak out against terrorism ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, Demonstration
Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab was not the first Al Qaeda terrorist to use a PETN bomb hidden in his underwear; the terrorist who tried (and failed) to assassinate Saudi prince Mohammed bin Nayef in August used the same method.
Right wing radio fire breather Mike Gallagher says we should have separate lines at airports for anyone with the name Ahmed, Abdul, or Mohammed. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says “100% of Islamic terrorists are Muslims.” Oh, my aching head. [Video] In other news, 100% of Popes are Catholic.
President Obama is making another statement on the failed terror attack on Christmas Day, and he isn’t mincing words about the failures of the system that’s supposed to identify possible threats. Here’s a thread to discuss. Quote: What’s also clear is this: when our government has information on a known extremist, and ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
Here’s crypto-fascist Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, advocating torturing the NW 253 bomber by withholding pain medicine for his burns — despite the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is apparently already talking to investigators very freely about his plans and training in Yemen. [Video]
All of the wingnut blogs are screaming that in his statement about the Northwest 253 terror attack, President Obama called the alleged terrorist an “isolated extremist.” This one comes straight from Karl Rove and Fox News, and it’s already everywhere on the right wing: ‘isolated extremist’ - Google Search. They’re trying to ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
ABC News has a report that two of the Al Qaeda leaders behind the Christmas Day attack plot were released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007, and handed over to Saudi Arabia. Where they underwent “art therapy,” and then were set free. Our friends, the Saudis. Two of the four leaders allegedly behind ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, George W. Bush, Saudi Arabia
[Video] UPDATE at 12/28/09 4:35:35 pm: ABC News has pictures of the explosive device sewn into accused bomber Abdulmutallab’s underwear: Northwest Airlines Bomb Photos - ABC News.
Another Nigerian man was taken into custody today aboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas. DETROIT — A passenger onboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day was taken into custody in Detroit on Sunday after becoming verbally disruptive upon landing, officials ...
New details on the attempted Christmas Day terror attack: The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect’s underwear before sending him on his mission, federal authorities tell ABC News. Investigators ...
The New York Times has a story on the scene aboard Northwest flight 253, as passengers acted quickly to avert disaster. During 19 hours of travel, aboard two flights across three continents, law enforcement officials said, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab bided his time. Then, just as Northwest Flight 253 finally began ...
There was apparently an attempt to blow up a passenger jet today, but the bomb failed to detonate. Details are still sketchy. WASHINGTON — A Northwest Airlines passenger landing in Detroit on Friday tried to blow up the flight but the explosive device failed, two U.S. national security officials said. The ...
This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed. [Video] UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am: A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state. [Video] UPDATE ...
The astoundingly corrupt, Islamist-sympathizing Democrat mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been charged with 12 counts of felony criminal conspiracy.
Two days after the New Jersey Jihad arrests, in which three of the suspects were living illegally in the US for decades, the Detroit City Council has passed an ordinance making it illegal for police to ask residents about their immigration status: City Council approves ordinance to prohibit the profiling ...
Damage to businesses and mosques in Detroit raises wider fears. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) As they repaired the broken windows of at least a dozen businesses and mosques along Warren Avenue in Detroit, many Iraqi Shi’ite Muslims wondered Monday if the vandalism was retaliation by local supporters of Saddam Hussein who ...
As the US rushes to evacuate American citizens from Lebanon, Debbie Schlussel says that many, if not most Americans in Lebanon Are Hezbollah Supporters. One thing is lost in all the press coverage of the whining Americans who went to Lebanon of their own accord and now want us to pick ...
As the Middle East crisis worsens, the FBI is concerned about Hizballah agents in the United States—and they should be. In the past five years, LGF has documented a huge amount of open support for Hizballah in the US: FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise. NEW YORK ...
4 held in plot to ship weapons. (Hat tip: Aviator.) Four Asian businessmen plotted to buy hundreds of handguns, machine guns, Sidewinder missiles and aviation radar equipment for export to Indonesia, creating a threat to national security, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The four men — who have been charged in Detroit and ...