International Cooperation At Low Levels For U.S. Gov

U.S. President Barack Obama

Last week it was revealed, a number of international cities/countries have not modified security at their airports, in response to a formal request from the U.S. government, due to the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing in America.

Yemen, a major player on the terrorism front, also decreed there are, "Limits to its military cooperation with the United States." Their deputy prime minister for security and defense stated, "We cannot accept any foreign troops on Yemeni territory" deeming it will "strengthen Al Qaeda."

Former President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, did a massive amount of damage in the area of international relations and now many in the global community are not willing to stick their necks out, as a result of those bridges that were burned.

If Obama is seen following in Bush's footsteps in any manner, in the area political policy, it shall only serve to worsen international ties. Among those choices...more troops to Afghanistan.

Yemen says there are limits to its military cooperation with United States

Friday, January 8, 2010 - SANAA, YEMEN -- In its strongest language yet, Yemen's government declared Thursday that there are limits to its military cooperation with the United States, warning that any direct U.S. action in this impoverished Middle Eastern nation could bolster the popularity of Islamist militants.

"If there is direct intervention by the United States, it will strengthen al-Qaeda," warned Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen's deputy prime minister for security and defense. "We cannot accept any foreign troops on Yemeni territory."

The statement underscored the rising concern among Yemen's leadership about a domestic backlash that could politically weaken the government and foment more instability. In recent days, top Yemeni officials have publicly played down their growing ties to Washington, fearing that they will be perceived by their opponents as weak and beholden to the United States...

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Britain And Yemen Bounce Blame For Terrorist

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

The British government and that of Yemen, have been bouncing blame for the radicalization of terrorist suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a full airliner of people on Christmas Day, as the aircraft landed in Detroit, Michigan in America.

The British government is stating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab became radicalized in Yemen in 2008, after he was kicked out of Britain. While the Yemen government is stating he, "Joined Al Qaeda in London."

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Yemen official minimizes nation's link to jetliner bombing suspect

Reporting from Sana, Yemen - A senior Yemeni official downplayed his nation's connection to the Nigerian Islamic militant suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, saying the man became an Al Qaeda militant in Britain, even though he met with a radical cleric in Yemen shortly before allegedly undertaking his alleged mission.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab joined Osama bin Laden's group while living in Britain from 2005 to '08, Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister Rashad Alimi told reporters Thursday in Sana, the capital. "The information we have is that Umar Farouk joined Al Qaeda in London," he said.

At some point, the onetime engineering student and the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker set off alarm bells in Britain, which didn't allow him to reenter the country. "But Yemen didn't get that intelligence," Alimi said.

Alimi's comments were the most detailed public explanation so far by government officials of Abdulmutallab's connection to Yemen...

http://www.latimes.com

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Pleads Not Guilty

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Al-Qaeda affiliated man, accused of attempting to blow up a Christmas Day flight landing in Detroit, Michigan in America, has pled not guilty. LOL is he serious - with nearly 300 witnesses against him, he may as well starting Googling the prison they are going to send him to.

Obama Takes Blame For FBI And CIA Failures

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In an internationally televised speech today, U.S. President Barack Obama, accepted the blame for the FBI and CIA's intelligence failures, which led to a radicalized 23-year-old Muslim that received Al Qaeda training, attempting to blow up an airliner landing in Detroit, Michigan in America on Christmas Day.

U.S. President Barack Obama

Obama has vowed changes and as much as the Judiciary Report would like to believe these changes will properly take effect, one knows better. There are "powers that be" that have been embedded in Congress, the FBI, CIA and NSA for years, who constantly resist certain types of change. It will be a battle getting teach item implemented.

President Obama: Security failure 'my responsibility'

1/7/10 4:59 PM EST - President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted responsibility for intelligence shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day bombing plot on a Detroit-bound airliner, saying, “Ultimately, the buck stops with me.

“As president, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people, and when the system fails, it is my responsibility,” Obama said.

Obama said an intelligence review found that the U.S. government had the information needed to thwart the plot but failed to do so because of a series of compounding shortcomings, including that intelligence analysts didn’t focus heavily enough on information warning that al-Qaida in Yemen wanted to strike the United States.

“The U.S. government had the information scattered through the system to potentially uncover this plot and disrupt the attack. Rather than a failure to collect and share this intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence we already had,” Obama said at the White House...

http://www.politico.com

Obama's Afghanistan War

U.S. President Barack Obama

The spate in terrorist activity, against the West by Al Qaeda, is fueled in part by their disillusionment and anger with the Obama Administration engaging more troops in Afghanistan.

When Obama swept into office, he did so with the promise he would end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then, he did an about face in office, recently stating he is committing 30,000 more troops to the ongoing endeavor in Afghanistan. This has stirred up a hornet's nest in the Middle East, already plagued by terrorist violence.

Britain Warned U.S. Gov About Detroit Bomber In 2008

U.S. President Barack Obama

A new report has surfaced revealing, in 2008 the British government did indeed warn its U.S. counterparts, about radicalized terrorist, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who attempted to blow up a NWA-Delta airlines flight on Christmas Day.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Once again, the federal government’s problem the Judiciary Report wrote about months before the bombing attempt, regarding their failure to cross reference information within U.S. law enforcement, meant vital information fell between the cracks and signs of potential trouble were missed.

U.S. President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

They government needs to rectify this on a national level, with the FBI, CIA, ATF and their fellow federal agencies, working as a cohesive unit, rather than a fragmented team, engaging in turf wars. Clearly, everyone is not on the same page.

There should be at least a minimal level of information shared between all national agencies, while assigning more sensitive information to higher tiers, only accessible by certain officials. Local and state police should be piped into the same system as well.

MI5 warned U.S. about Detroit airline bomber in 2008

Last updated at 8:25 AM on 05th January 2010 - Claims: Information on alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was passed to UK spy agencies, Downing Street has said.

British intelligence agencies had given the United States information about the Detroit plane bomber long before his attempted attack, Downing Street claimed yesterday.

The name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was included in a dossier of people believed to have made attempts to deal with known extremists that was shared with American intelligence in 2008, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said.

Abdulmultallab was listed as having tried to contact radical Islamists while studying in London but was not singled out as a particular risk because he was 'not radicalised until he left the UK in October 2008', the spokesman added...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

U.S. Reopens Embassy In Yemen

U.S. President Barack Obama

The U.S. government has reopened its embassy in terrorist magnet, Yemen, after threats from Al Qaeda forced an abrupt closure. Government officials believe they have addressed the security issue that caused them to close shop.

U.S. Reopens Embassy in Yemen

SAN'A, Yemen -- The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened Tuesday after a two-day closure, saying successful Yemeni counterterrorism operations have addressed the threat that prompted the measure.

The embassy shut down on Sunday because of an imminent al Qaeda attack. In an announcement on its Web site Tuesday, the embassy said the Yemini operations have allowed it to resume operations.

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U.S. And U.K. Close Embassies In Yemen

The U.S. and U.K. governments have closed their respective embassies in the country of Yemen, due to threats from terrorist group Al Qaeda, endangering their employees.

U.S. President Obama and British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown

U.S. President Obama and British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, sanctioned the move, as it is not worth the lives that could be lost at the hands of the terror collective, who have recently escalated their attacks around the world.

72 Virgins?

...No!

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab being arrested

I just had a thought. What's Umar Abdulmutallab going to do with the so-called "72 virgins" after the bomb he tried to ignite on a Christmas 2009 flight, misfired and burned up his family jewels.

There are no "72 virgins." It's a story made up to dupe Muslims into criminal acts. Furthermore, what kind of man needs 72 vaginas. That's just greedy!

Umar Abdulmutallab came from a wealthy family, lived in a $4,000,000 London apartment and was sent to a good university, but threw it all away to follow the misguided teachings of Al Qaeda, a terrorist group and Boko Haram, an extremist Muslim sect the Nigerian Information Minister, Dora Akunyili, accused of brainwashing youths.

It would appear so, as Abdulmutallab displayed all the signs of brainwashing, illustrated by passenger reports of his blank staring and unresponsiveness to stimuli.

He became radicalized by Muslim extremists at a London university, which led him to Al Qaeda and now life imprisonment.

"Al Qaeda Link In Foiled Terrorist Plot"

U.S. President Barack Obama

The United States Congress is calling for hearings into the attempted bombing of an NWA airlines flight on Christmas Day, as it landed in Detroit, Michigan in America.

This winter, terrorists have ramped up their efforts against America, in deeds such as the aforementioned, Fort Hood and an attempt in Queens, New York. Something is clearly going on, creating these incidents in such close proximity to each other. It lends the appearance they are in a mad rush to bomb this nation.

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Some U.S. law enforcement officials are doing damage control regarding the NWA flight, in attempting to play down the terrorist's ties to Al Qaeda, but if he is an insignificant rogue figure, merely inspired by the aforementioned terrorist faction, why was he in the United States government's watch list, on a database, as someone with terrorist ties. Said officials are contradicting themselves.

Furthermore, based on reports, the bomb he smuggled on the flight undetected, then assembled, seemed quite "sophisticated." Then there is the obvious fact he was able to get through various international security checkpoints undetected. How was he able to foil national security for three nations. That level of security breach hardly seems something a 23-year-old student could accomplish on his own with no help from experienced terrorists.

Terror Suspect Scoped Beauty Supply Stores

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The latest terrorist bust concerning a wannabe terrorist named Zazi, stirred deep, selfless questions in my mind.

For example, seeing the product shot of the peroxide (hair bleach) he was buying to build bombs, had me selflessly thinking, you mean to tell me the stuff I use to highlight my hair is strong enough to take out buildings in explosions!

What about my hair! Um, I mean the safety of citizens everywhere. *Mumbling* Forget Zazi, I wanna know why my hair highlighting pack is that strong!

Najibullah Zaz

Zazi was not only scoping out fashion sites with the intent to bomb them, taking out scores of innocent designer clothes, he was also lingering around beauty supply stores, probably wanting to blow them up too. It's clear this man wanted everyone to be ugly!

Think about it girls - no make-up, hair dye, hair highlighting, tweezers, waxing kits, facial scrubs. How evil and sadistic! I say give him the death penalty (just kidding - give him life in prison).

Side Bar: A couple years ago, while going on a trip outside the country, U.S. Customs in Florida told me I could not carry my make-up foundation on the plane, unless it was in a Ziploc bag, otherwise I'd have to leave it with them.

I was like "ha" you expect me to "go without foundation for the next five days." I looked at him like he was the anti-Christ. I was ready to have the man institutionalized. However, a nice lady in the line next to me, faced with the same dilemma, had brought a few Ziploc bags and gave one to me.

The government is busy putting out Amber alerts for terrorists, skirting the real issues in not putting out Amber alerts telling women make-up foundation must be placed in Ziploc bags.

Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies

NEW YORK — An Afghan immigrant who received explosives training from al-Qaida went from one beauty supply store to another, buying up large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and nail-polish remover, in a chilling plot to build bombs for attacks on U.S. soil, authorities charged Thursday.

Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old shuttle driver at the Denver airport, was indicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Investigators found bomb-making instructions on his computer's hard drive and said Zazi used a hotel room in Colorado to try to cook up explosives a few weeks ago before a trip to New York.

The extent of Zazi's ties to al-Qaida was unclear, but if the allegations prove true, this could be the first operating al-Qaida cell to be uncovered inside the U.S. since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Over the past few days, talk of the possible plot set off the most intense flurry of national terrorism warnings since the aftermath of 9/11...

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