Possible Terror Attempt on Airliner to Detroit

[kwame k]

Kwame,Not Too Much To Drink On A 13 Hour Flight From Auckland To LA.:D

The last time I flew from Michigan to Colorado I was blitzed out of my mind.....thank God I'm a happy drunk. I got to Detroit Metro an hour and a half early and hit the bar, met some cool people at the bar and after four or five shots and a couple of beers, I boarded my flight. I had a two hour layover in Denver and....you guessed it, hit the bar for some food and more booze. Hooked up with a few people flying into Colorado Springs and several shots and 3 or 4 more beers later, they had to pour me out of my seat. The flight attendant for the puddle jump from Denver to the Springs loved me....she said she never laughed so hard during a flight

[kwame k]

Oh for fuck's sake not again

So we're blaming it on intelligence failure again...My God how is it that these guys can never connect the dots

By PHILIP ELLIOTT and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writers – 29 mins ago
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the intelligence community had bits of information that should have been pieced together that would have triggered "red flags" and possibly prevented the Christmas Day attempted terror attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
His criticism came as senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press that intelligence authorities now are looking at conversations between the suspect in the failed attack, a 23-year-old Nigerian, and at least one al-Qaida member. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conversations were vague or coded, but the intelligence community believes that, in hindsight, the communications may have been referring to the Detroit attack. One official said a link between the suspect's planning and al-Qaida's goals was becoming more clear.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that the government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of al-Qaida there were talking about "a Nigerian" being prepared for a terrorist attack. The newspaper said the information did not include the name of the Nigerian.

The rest of the story here

[Dan]

The last time I flew from Michigan to Colorado I was blitzed out of my mind.....thank God I'm a happy drunk. I got to Detroit Metro an hour and a half early and hit the bar, met some cool people at the bar and after four or five shots and a couple of beers, I boarded my flight. I had a two hour layover in Denver and....you guessed it, hit the bar for some food and more booze. Hooked up with a few people flying into Colorado Springs and several shots and 3 or 4 more beers later, they had to pour me out of my seat. The flight attendant for the puddle jump from Denver to the Springs loved me....she said she never laughed so hard during a flight

Damn,That's Alot Of Drink For That Flight.:D

[kwame k]

Damn,That's Alot Of Drink For That Flight.:D

I didn't want to rub it in but.....I had a few more beers on my flight to Denver. I'm amazed that they kept on serving me....also, didn't want to mention the MJ we smoked:0

[BITEYOASS]

Of course this terrorist trust fund child made the mistake of taking a flight to Detroit. Where self-defense = kill the muthafucka or beat until unconcious. Why do you think he wound up on life support at the U of M medical center anyway? :D

[Nickdfresh]

So we're blaming it on intelligence failure again...My God how is it that these guys can never connect the dots


The rest of the story here

That would entail those FBI jock-douchebags talking to those CIA Ivy League faggot-snobs. And who wants to talk to NSA geek-scum?

[standin]

[ELVIS]

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[FORD]

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[Blackflag]

You really need to get a new hero, because this guy is a dimwit. Even the ACLU guy was like, "wtf is this guy talking about, and how is this relevant?" Is it too much to ask to find somebody that can string two coherent thoughts together?

[FORD]

Not sure what you mean Pibbles. They seem to be on the same page to me. I'm not hearing any disagreement.

[Blackflag]

Oh yeah, they were definitely in agreement about that deranged Ben Gurion rant...

Wait, the ACLU guy just ignored it and moved on because it was fucking irrelevant. That's right.

He didn't even make any fucking sense...how does interviewing people after they're already on your soil and about to enter your country have to do with what happened in Detroit? And what do interviews have to do with screening machines and the 4th? What a clown.

I can understand why you're attracted to him, no pun intended.

[Seshmeister]

Two things about this IMHO.

1) What a fucking disgrace this is. Obama is quite right to put the boot in. A guy with this guys record paying in cash for a flight? What a joke. Sack some of these idiots.

2) It really shows how incredibly small the terrorist threat is. This is the thing the politicians can never risk saying but it's true. The chance of dying in a terrorist attack remains fucking tiny. So incredibly small it's unimaginable. Even with effectively almost no security the super amazing non existent SMERSH type Al Queda cannot kill anyone?

What a fucking pile of crap this is.

[Seshmeister]

This may sound a little simplistic but why are thousands of American and British troops being blown up and killled in order to stop noone being killed by people in non exploding pants?

[GAR]

Ben Stein's point: "I'm stunned after what the President said.. this is like saying 'Lets all be vigilant now about the Japanese' after Pearl Harbor."

Yet Janet Napolitano still has a job, and even after her comments that "the system worked" when it was a passenger who clobbered the Underwear Bomber!

Kudos to Elvis - as always the only SANE pov countering FORD's thought defecit.