Terror attack foiled on Northwest Airlines flight

[Richard Hakluyt]

Nonsense Yi, they were all wedding parties 

I didn't say it was easy, and FWIW I believe the British contribution has been even more lamentable............but where are the tangible beneficial results for our efforts?

[Razgovory]

That argument would have more resonance if the USA had actually got anything done.

What do we need to do to qualify for actually getting anything done?  We've zapped umpteen AQ mucky mucks in Pakistan, umpteen mad mullahs in Yemen, umpteen fedayeen freedom fighters in Iraq.

Good question.  What does this zapping actually accomplish?  In 2001 Bush complained about how he was tired of the US "swatting at flies".  It's almost 2010 and we are still swatting at flies.

[Fate]

Funny, I remarked a long time ago that the hysteria of the left over detaining prisoners in the WoT (no matter how humanely - remember that there still has not been any credible evidence that anyone was being tortured at Gitmo, for example) would result in the US just not taking prisoners anymore, and instead just look to kill them. This was dismissed as silly and ridiculous.

Now the Golden Child is instituting that *exact* policy, and we don't hear the usual suspects complaining about it at all. Curious.

Now the people who once chided people for "rooting against America" are doing exactly that.  Curious.

A Fatetastic response Raz, you should be proud.

Needs more GOPtard. 

[Fate]

So, in summation: The guy--

1. paid cash;
2. for a one-way ticket;
3. on an international flight;
4. to Detroit, the main hub for the Disneyland of the American Islamic community, Dearborn MI:
5. after his father called the US Embassy in Lagos directly less than a month before about his son's recent militantism.

In short, the ball was dropped, primarily overseas.  If these flags don't go red, then it doesn't matter how many people don't get to bring their bottles of Head & Shoulders with them.

Supposedly Nigeria is a "cash society" due to the amount of fraud in the country, so the correlation between buying a ticket with cash and OMGTERRORIST may be weaker than expected.

The latest reports are saying that he actually purchased a round trip ticket.

The ball was still dropped. All mooslimbs should have mandatory secondary screening when entering the US from abroad.

[CountDeMoney]

So, in summation: The guy--

1. paid cash;
2. for a one-way ticket;
3. on an international flight;
4. to Detroit, the main hub for the Disneyland of the American Islamic community, Dearborn MI:
5. after his father called the US Embassy in Lagos directly less than a month before about his son's recent militantism.

In short, the ball was dropped, primarily overseas.  If these flags don't go red, then it doesn't matter how many people don't get to bring their bottles of Head & Shoulders with them.

Supposedly Nigeria is a "cash society" due to the amount of fraud in the country, so the correlation between buying a ticket with cash and OMGTERRORIST may be weaker than expected.

The latest reports are saying that he actually purchased a round trip ticket.

The ball was still dropped. All mooslimbs should have mandatory secondary screening when entering the US from abroad.

Isn't Nigeria on some sort of Filthy Country list anyway?  Nobody with flies on their eyelids and distended bellies with powdered milk moustaches shouldn't be allowed to fly anywhere anyway.

[Admiral Yi]

Isn't Nigeria on some sort of Filthy Country list anyway?  Nobody with flies on their eyelids and distended bellies with powdered milk moustaches shouldn't be allowed to fly anywhere anyway.

Don't you mean "fly nowhere noway?"

[CountDeMoney]

Isn't Nigeria on some sort of Filthy Country list anyway?  Nobody with flies on their eyelids and distended bellies with powdered milk moustaches shouldn't be allowed to fly anywhere anyway.

Don't you mean "fly nowhere noway?"

Noway nohow.

[Capetan Mihali]

Terrorism update: a pseudo-molotov filled with diesel ( ) found in the parking lot of the DHS in Philadelphia...

[CountDeMoney]

Terrorism update: a pseudo-molotov filled with diesel ( ) found in the parking lot of the DHS in Philadelphia...

Pseudo-Molotov?  What's that, like a pipe bomb without the pipe?

[Habbaku]

Terrorism update: a pseudo-molotov filled with diesel ( ) found in the parking lot of the DHS in Philadelphia...

Pseudo-Molotov?  What's that, like a pipe bomb without the pipe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Litvinov

[MadImmortalMan]

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.

[Tonitrus]

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.

A bumbled underwear-bandit, who himself is no further threat, probably shouldn't make the cut...but I imagine most red-blooded Americans would, under the same cirmcumstances, do what my current avatar did to "Scorpio" to get information.

[Ed Anger]

I'd start slicing off fingers.

Unless he was an American. Then he gets due process. Foreigners? Fuck 'em.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Such ingratitude.

The fellow did get you out of a boring business trip Ed 

[Razgovory]

Terrorism update: a pseudo-molotov filled with diesel ( ) found in the parking lot of the DHS in Philadelphia...

How do you fill a fake Russian hammer with diesel?