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Underwear Bomber Scores Tactical Victory For Al Qaeda

Yeah, that’s right, even though the bomb failed to detonate, our side failed to stop him from getting into position where he could set it off to begin with.

Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the blown attack. Janet Napolitano at first claimed our anti-terrorist system worked, then backtracked and admitted it failed. This is a critical point.

There are reports out that the terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was aided in boarding the Detroit bound flight in Amsterdam without a passport by an unidentified man who asserted Mutallab was escaping from Sudan and needed to get to the U.S., and that it is routine to slip Sudanese refugees on flights despite not having a passport.

Mutallab, now known internationally as the underwear bomber, successful boarded the flight while carrying his explosive charge in his underwear. When Mutallab failed to set it off, due to some malfunction, he then tried to set it off by setting it on fire. He was foiled when passengers and crew subdued him.

This is a reminder of what we are up against. When it comes to terrorist attacks, we have to be lucky every single time to stop attacks before they occur. We cannot afford a failure. The terrorists only have to get lucky once. And this time they did. Only the Big Guy upstairs prevented this from going off the way al Qaeda wanted it to.

Our system of protecting people from terrorist attacks failed. The underwear bomber scored a tactical victory for the terrorists. Why was it a tactical victory for the enemy? They penetrated defenses and succeeded in getting the bomb in position. This despite our receiving warnings from Mutallab’s father that his son was up to something with al Qaeda. Despite Mutallab being on terrorist watch lists and known to be cavorting with various extremist terrorist groups. That’s reason one this was a tactical victory for the terrorists.

Reason 2 that it was a victory for evil is that air travel will now have even more restrictions placed on it. Here comes the full body scans and Lord knows what else. Requirements to stay in your seat for the last hour of the flight, with your hands in plain sight. Talk about treating people like a pack of Kindergartners. Air travel is restrictive and inconvenient enough. Now it will become even more so. No thanks, I’ll drive from now on.

Al Qaeda has also stated that more attacks are on the way, and that they practice tactics for penetrating security so as to carry out attacks. They found a big hole in Amsterdam by getting the Underwear Bomber on board without a passport. That means there is one rule that definitely needs to be implemented and that’s where international flights are concerned, no passport, no boarding, absolutely no exceptions.

We got lucky this time in that the bomb was a dud. Our being lucky this time had nothing to do with our security measures that are in place BECAUSE THOSE SECURITY MEASURES FAILED! Had they worked as planned, Mutallab should never have made it aboard that flight to Detroit, but been detained in Amsterdam.

Message to Obama and Napolitano: don’t fail us again!

Tags: Napolitano, security, Terrorism