OBAMA’S Administration Times Square “WHO DUN IT,”
Is no longer ‘who dun it’ but was he sent by OTHERS,
Possibly even a foreign Islamic terrorist Organization!
We must of course cast doubt on the Taliban’s Claims,
Because that would be a Clear Case of Racial Profiling.
And we certainly do not want to hurt a gentle Religion,
Whose goal is to wipe the nation of Israel Off the Map,
And kill, convert, or control All who Won’ t Accep
t Islam!
Obama and his appointed Czar’s say No Racial Profiling
Is necessary in order to protect our borders from Illegal
Aliens and Islamic terrorists but alertness of US Citizens
And Terrorist Incompetence Won’t Always be in full Play!
Racial Profiling Violates a Civil Liberty But it protects Life!
May 4, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The Obama Administration will play this Times Square incident to the heavens as to their great ability to head off terrorist attacks in America. The truth is this: Had it not been for private citizens noticing the vehicle, and the ineptness of the terrorist to correctly build a bomb that worked, there would have been many dead and injured.
Even though the ineptness of the terrorist to maee a bomb saved the day, Obama’s Administration got the message, and I suspect this will cause it to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan faster than they had planned.
I do not believe Iran and Syria have any desire to take the chance involved in their starting a major Middle East War, while large numbers of American troops are still on their borders
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
Manhunt for Times Square bombers on flights from Boston-New York-Philadelphia
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 4, 2010, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
US security officials began screening passengers boarding domestic and foreign flights out of Boston, New York and Philadelphia Monday night, May 3, hoping to snare a likely foreign terrorist or terrorists on the run after planting the Times Square car bomb.
By then, US officials had come around to accepting that the failed car bomb attack was coordinated by more than one person – possibly even a foreign terrorist organization – and no longer cast doubt on the credibility of the Pakistani Taliban’s claim of responsibility.
DEBKAfile’s European and Middle East sources report that the US has urgently asked West European and Middle East governments to keep a sharp lookout for the arrival of wanted suspects on the run. The investigation got off to a slow start due to the initial skepticism in the administration and New York City Hall to the possibility of a high-profile terrorist operation demanding immediate, comprehensive action.
Shortly after the car bomb parked near on Times Square was defused safely Saturday night, May 1, DEBKAfile reported: Our terror experts doubt that he was a loner. Surveillance was needed to locate the bomb vehicle and steal it from the used car junkyard, several hands must have assembled the materials and prepared the explosive device, and his lightning disappearance indicates that a getaway car must have been on hand to whisk him away from the scene before the police arrived.
The next day, we headlined the Pakistani Taliban’s claim of responsibility, taped in advance by its top bomb-maker, Qari Hussain Mehsud, and strengthened a few hours later by the release of a videotape allegedly made by Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud on April 4, weeks after he was reported killed by a US missile strike in January, and ignored at the time.
On that nine-minute tape, he vowed retaliation for the killing of Islamist leaders: “The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities.”
Shortly before he was killed by a US drone in Aug. 2009, his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, claimed his movement was now able to execute operations inside the United States.
US security officials did not take this claim seriously. However the evidence against Najibullah Zazi, the Detroit taxi driver charged in February with conspiring to attack the New York subway, reveals that al Qaeda in Pakistan recruited him when he arrived their to join Taliban. The two movements’ campaign of violence against the United States and US targets in Pakistan is so closely coordinated as to be virtually interchangeable.
Therefore, when Qari Hussein claimed Taliban was avenging “martyred leaders,” he included Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the al Qaeda commander in Iraq killed by a joint US-Iraqi intelligence team in mid-April.
He also warned NATO governments to denounce the US and apologize for “the massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistani tribal areas – otherwise be prepared for the worst destruction and devastation in their own countries.”
Begin Excerpt from Khaleej Times Online via World News
US arrests Pakistani-American over failed car bomb
(Reuters)
4 May 2010, 7:25 PM
NEW YORK – The Pakistani-American arrested on suspicion of driving a bomb-laden car into New York’s Times Square told U.S. authorities he acted alone, but skeptical investigators are looking into his recent trip to Pakistan, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.
Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was arrested late on Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he tried to take a flight to Dubai, local and federal officials said.
Shahzad, 30, was due to appear in federal court later on Tuesday to face charges of “driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1,” officials said. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, experts said.
“He’s admitted to buying the truck, putting the devices together, putting them in the truck, leaving the truck there and leaving the scene,” the law enforcement source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“He’s claimed to have acted alone. He did admit to all the charges, so to speak,” the source said, adding that investigators were still looking into his activities during a recent trip to Pakistan.
If links were found between the failed Times Square bombing and Pakistan’s Taliban, which claimed responsibility for it, Pakistan could come under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants.
Pakistan vowed to help the U.S. investigation.
Shahzad, who received U.S. citizenship last year, recently visited Pakistan for about five months, returning to the United States in February, the source said.
“Based on our collective experience it’s hard to really believe that this is something someone would do on their own. It seems hard to pull off alone. There’s a lot we don’t know yet,” the source said.
House search
Shahzad is suspected of buying the 1993 Nissan sport utility vehicle used to carry the crude bomb, made of fuel and fireworks, into Times Square as the theater and shopping area was packed with people on a warm Saturday evening. Had the bomb detonated, many people could have died, officials said.
Authorities searched Shahzad’s home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the FBI said on Tuesday. An FBI spokeswoman did not say what authorities had found.
New Yorkers bore the brunt of the Sept. 11 attacks by al Qaeda militants in 2001, and Saturday’s scare was a reminder that the city of 8 million people is always under threat.
Emirates, the airline whose flight Shahzad had boarded in New York before being detained, said in a statement
that three passengers were removed from the plane. CNN reported that two passengers were cleared and released.
“Full security procedures were activated including the deplaning of all passengers and a thorough screening of the aircraft, passengers and baggage,” an Emirates spokesperson said in a statement.
“The intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told an early morning news conference on the arrest.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama was notified of the arrest just after midnight by his counterterrorism chief, John Brennan, after being regularly updated during Monday on the investigation.
Taliban angle
The Taliban in Pakistan said on Sunday it planted the bomb to avenge the killing in April of al Qaeda’s two top leaders in Iraq as well as U.S. interference in Muslim countries.
Some officials voiced skepticism about the claim. But former CIA analyst Bruce Riedel, who last year oversaw an Obama administration strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan, cautioned against dismissing a Taliban role.
“They have said they want to attack inside the United States,” he said before the arrest was announced, adding it was possible the incident involved “some Pakistani-American who has never built a car bomb before in his life but who is being coached either by phone or Internet.”
Pakistan is an ally to the United States and other NATO countries fighting the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan but is also seen as a training ground for Islamist militants.
Saturday’s failed bombing was the second significant plot in nine months targeting New York City.
An Afghan immigrant, Najibullah Zazi, has pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide bombing campaign on Manhattan’s subway system last September.
U.S. authorities disrupted that plot before Zazi and his accused accomplices were able to carry it out. Another Afghan-born man has pleaded guilty for his role in the plot.
Zazi admitted to receiving al Qaeda training in Pakistan.
Garry Hindle, head of security and counterterrorism at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute think tank, said: “We’ve been saying for a long time that this type of incompetent attack is the trend.
If it follows the pattern of previous incidents, we can expect to uncover an amount of prior overseas travel, instruction from trainers and a search for inspiration from radicalizers abroad.”
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