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POPSView on Systemic failure The near-calamity that resulted Christmas Day from a would-be plane bomber who reportedly underwent terror training with al-Qaida in Yemen makes us wonder whether the United States' intelligence and security agencies learned anything from Sept. 11.
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POPSThe Christmas Bomber Speaks … Finally
The intelligence he possessed was perishable. Each moment that passed that he was not speaking meant lost counterterrorism opportunities. Every hour, every day, every week that went by gave them precious time to close bank accounts, e-mail addresses, phone numbers he knew about, and shut down training camps, safe houses, and other intelligence leads he could have given us. Terrorists he knew about have been put into hiding, and other leads that were hot in the days immediately following his capture have since gone cold. The mishandling of Abdulmutallab’s questioning is an intelligence failure of massive proportions. And it highlights the problem with the Obama administration’s approach to terrorist interrogation. The administration’s approach is built on a law-enforcement model unsuited for the challenges of the war on terror. Here is why: In law enforcement, interrogators generally question terrorists after an attack (or in the case of Abdulmutallab, an attempted attack)
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POPS3 USA 'No-troops-there,' killed in Pakistan.
It's a shame to hear of our troops killed, wasted or misused. Since WW2 our military has gotten out of control. Using the proper procedure of Declaring War, in accord with the US Constitution, would be a good start to reign in all our covert political and military agitation. We admit to having troops in over 100 nations. But we have troops in more and have troops in nations we deny a presence. Not even Congress knows where they all are or what they are doing - without a declaration of war these all are, in essence, rogue programs. Today 3 US soldiers - who we don't have/ deny having in Pakistan - were killed there. The spin is sickening, too. These nice guys were just on their way to help out a girl's school. Yup....that's what our Special Forces do: build girl's schools. Or they call them 'trainers,' or 'advisers,' or 'private security contractors,' -- Many claims of former VP Dick Cheney having his own assassination squads have been made. We don't even obey our own
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POPSMARC THIESSEN: WATERBOARDED TERRORIST ASKED CIA TO WATERBOARD HIS COLLEAGUES....... "So his responsibility to allah is to resist as far as he can and then once he has reached his limit he is free to spill his guts. so if you know that, that is their philosophy, this was the first guy who told us, then applied to KSM and other terrorists, so if you know that, what do you do? You find techniques that you know are safe, that will not harm the terrorist, that will not cause them severe pain nor any lasting injury, that are within our laws and give him something to resist."
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POPSTerriost Trial in New York "Would you answer a jury summons knowing you could end up sitting in front of a jihadi sympathizer on the loose who is mentally painting a target on your forehead?"
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POPSA Terror Trial Debacle Happening Right Now A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist linked to al-Qaida got into trouble again Monday in federal court after twice interrupting the sometimes tearful testimony of an American solider who claimed he shot her in self defense in Afghanistan in 2008. “I feel sorry for you,” Aafit Saddiqui blurted out at one point at her attempted murder trial in Manhattan. After a judge had deputy U.S. marshals remove her, she pointed at the witness and muttered something else before disappearing behind a side door. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman allowed Saddiqui to return later, but kicked her out again amid another rambling tirade about injustice. At the end of the day, the defense argued that the removals made her look bad in front of the jury and asked for a mistrial, which the judge denied. “It’s highly appropriate for her to be escorted out of the courtroom when she acts out,” he said. Siddiqui " a specialist in neuroscience who trained at the Massachusetts
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POPSArkansas Army Center Shooter Suspect Seeks Guilty Plea Ferguson said he didn't know how seriously to take Muhammad's claims of terror ties and expressed frustration with his client sending the letter without consulting him beforehand. "He's said lots of things. None of them seem to be real consistent with each other," Ferguson said. "I'm a little irritated with it." Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley did not immediately return a message left on his cell phone Thursday night, but prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty in the case. Muhammad was arrested about eight miles from the recruiting center, on Interstate 630, shortly after the shootings. Police said they recovered Molotov cocktails, three guns and ammunition from his pickup truck. An internal law enforcement memo said Muhammad may have considered other targets, including military sites and Jewish organizations in the Southeast. breitbart.com http://bit.ly/4s11UW
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POPSSpanish lawmaker's photo used for bin Laden poster Busted!! They are pushing fear again people! But I figure they know they are dealing with a bunch of t.v., sports, star struck idiots in this country and they could have pulled this off if this guy hadn't said something... We are so freaking stupid!
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POPSPat Robertson Is Going To Hell THIS is exactly what I mean by Evangelical "christians" and their vicious and hateful speech: Heartless, big-mouthed, ignorant and just so very arrogant. I see absolutely NO difference between this guy and the Al-Qaida mouths who said the U.S. had it coming, or Coulter who said she could "understand" the Dr. George Tiller murder and called it a "procedure with a rifle" Funny? Awesome? Hell, no! These people are not amusing, not intelligent, not just. And they are wrong.
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POPSEvolution of every medium Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous academic appointments. He has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, was published by Random House in March, 2008.
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POPSThey swing with the Pendulum! ABC News' Brian Ross reported that two of the men behind the Christmas Day bombing plot were detainees who had been released from Gitmo. The recidivism rate for the 530 released detainees has risen to 20 percent, and the remaining 198 are deemed hard core.
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POPSArab World: Battleground Yemen "YEMEN IS currently host to no less than three separate insurgencies. Each resembles one another in that they are being conducted by forces committed to some form of political Islam." " Their close proximity to the Saudi border makes them a useful tool for Iran to pressure Riyadh." Americans have no idea......
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POPSAre You Listening, bin Laden? Unless that's what the jihadists are already doing and Obama's too dumb-smart to recognize his own M.O. Or... But no, that can't be right... by LocoPunk "At war with al Qaeda" Read full post at http://bit.ly/4YEDhX
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POPSIF THIS ISN'T TERRORISM......WHAT IS????? The failed attack caused popping sounds and flames that passengers and crew rushed to extinguish. The bomb was designed to detonate "at a time of his choosing," the grand jury's indictment said. There is no specific mention of terrorism in the seven-page indictment. But trying to use a weapon of mass destruction is a terrorism charge, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said. President Barack Obama considers the incident an attempted strike against the United States by an affiliate of al-Qaida.
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POPSPlaying the al Qaeda game instead of a winning game All terrorists live by convincing potential recruits that they have power and creating fear and division among their real opponents. The US, UK and EU are not the real perceived enemy of al Qaeda - Saudi Arabia is the first enemy. Iran may not realize it but they will be the number two enemy, then Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan... Get it! Sending troops to Afghanistan suits them - helps them recruit new members who will then be turned on their home states. Get it - good. Let's get out of Kabul!
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POPSCIA Killed By al-Qaeda Double-Agent According to Western intelligence officials, the perpetrator was Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 36, an al-Qaida sympathizer from the town of Zarqa, which is also the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant Islamist responsible for several devastating attacks in Iraq. Suicide Bombing on CIA Base in Afghanistan last week was carried out by Jordanian Doctor who was al-Qaida Double Agent http://bit.ly/7q0DCn The Jawa Report mypetjawa.mu.nu
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POPSWE DON'T, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DOES Chances of making it past 2010 with no incidents is slim and none and slim left town. The economy and health care might not bring down the Obama administration but this handling of terrorists just might....
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POPSAuf die CIA-Abteilung "al-Qaida" ist Verlass: "Patriot Act" wird verlängert Damit die Gelder weiter fließen können, hat die Terrororganisation CIA wieder einmal seine von ihm ausgebildeten Mitarbeiter von der Al-Qaida bemühen müssen. Dass man einen kaputten Zünder eingebaut hat, ist wohl Präsident Obama zu verdanken. Aufgrund des Friedensnobelpreises kann man sich einen weiteren Flugzeugabschuß momentan nicht leisten.
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POPSBREAKING: US Intel Had Info Ahead of Airliner Attack "The warning signs would have triggered red flags, and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America." Officials said Obama chose to make a second statement in as many days because a morning briefing offered him new information in the government's possession about the suspect's activities and thinking, along with al-Qaida's plans. Obama's statement showed more fire than he had shown previously about the lapses that allowed the bombing attack to take place and came after his homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, had to backtrack on an assertion that "the system worked" in the Detroit airliner scare. Some have criticized Obama for not addressing the issue publicly sooner. An angered Obama called the shortcomings "totally unacceptable" and told reporters traveling with him on vacation here that he wanted a preliminary report by Thursday on what went wrong on Christmas Day, when the suspect carried explosives onto a flight from Amsterdam
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POPSYemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons' Security officials in Yemen said today that 29 al-Qaida suspects had been arrested as part of a new crackdown on the terrorist group. "There is a steady stream of people travelling to Yemen and travel to Yemen is something that is of concern to us," said a UK security source. Tonight, al-Qaida militants in the region posted a statement on the internet claiming responsibility for the failed bomb attempt, which it said was meant to avenge US attacks on the group in Yemen. The statement called for the killing of western embassy workers in the region warning of "all-out war on the crusaders"
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