Barrel Strength

Early reports relating to an incident on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, indicate that a Muslim man from Nigeria attempted to set off an explosive device on the flight.

The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information, and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.

The suspect was identified as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who according to federal documents is an engineering student at University College of London.

He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.

It is indeed fortunate that the attempt was thwarted because of incompetence, but weren’t all these terrorist attacks by Muslims suppose to be history after Obama’s World Apology Tour which included “A New Beginning” speech, aka “The Islam mythologies in the Cairo Speech“, and a statement that the US “is not at war with Islam” in Turkey?  Wasn’t Obama bowing to the Saudi king enough?

Update – Mission Accomplished?

On Dec 22nd Murtha stated the following.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha told reporters Tuesday that he isn’t convinced al-Qaida is still a threat to national security.

Murtha said he visited Kuwait and Afghanistan during Thanksgiving and approves of the military’s strategy, but expressed a need to measure progress in Afghanistan.

“I don’t agree there is a threat to national security,” Murtha said, while not ruling out the possibility that he could be wrong about al-Qaida’s influence. “They keep saying they’ve defeated al-Qaida.”

It seems Murtha is competing with Biden for the title of the resident idiot within the Democratic party.

CBS news reports the following from New Jersey.

Police said as many as 11 students beat up an eighth-grader honor student in an apparent case of revenge. The victim, who is Hispanic, suffered severe injuries, and it was possible he may lose sight in one eye. It is not believed, however, that he was the victim of a hate crime. Police said the student who threw the first punch was also Hispanic, and the other students all come from diverse backgrounds.

It is good to know that that the crime was driven, not by hate, but rather by love.

… A continuing series on Obama’s efforts.

Obama and Copenhagen

December 18, 2009. Obama Calls Global Warming Agreement an “Unprecedented Breakthrough”

President Obama touted that “for the first time in history, all major economies have come together to accept their responsibility to take action to confront the threat of climate change,” calling the late-hour agreement struck in Copenhagen, Denmark an “unprecedented breakthrough.”

December 23, 2009. Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justified

“I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen,” he said in an interview with PBS Newshour.

“What I said was essentially that rather than see a complete collapse in Copenhagen, in which nothing at all got done and would have been a huge backward step, at least we kind of held ground and there wasn’t too much backsliding from where we were.”

Returning home empty-handed – yet again!