
Many people in Washington are asking the question of who decided to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a common criminal rather than an enemy combatant. Abdulmutallab is the accused terrorist who was arrested for the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Northwest Airlines jet.
It only makes sense that as Abdulmutallab was al-Qaida trained, had an [...]
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was arrested on December 25, 2009 at the Detroit Metro Airport after attempting to blow up the plane on which he was a passenger. As he was being led away, bleeding and badly burned, he claimed there was another bomb on the plane. Following a intensive search, it was determined that [...]
January 24, 2010 | Posted in
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A new report by the United Nations has come to the conclusion that a rash of Taliban suicide bombings in the last year drove up the casualty numbers of civilians in Afghanistan. In this, the civilian deaths caused by occupying troops from the allied forces have dropped close to 30%. The Afghan people are now [...]
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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It seems as though the ever present and ruthless al-Qaida has been gearing up for yet more terrorist activities in the west. With the botched attempt on Christmas to bring down a plane flying into Detroit and the wide spread attempts in Afghanistan with the attack on the CIA base, al-Qaida is challenging the United [...]
January 9, 2010 | Posted in
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It was written in the New York Times that Michael Kinsley insisted that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda operative, who wanted to undertake a terrorist attack on an airline over Detroit, should be treated as a criminal defendant but not as an enemy combatant. He claims that there should be a line that has to [...]
January 8, 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told his security chiefs on Tuesday that the botched Christmas Day plane bombing was the result of a screw up by U.S. intelligence and that the country had barely dodged disaster, according to a quotation released by the White House.
“This was a screw up that could have [...]
January 5, 2010 | Posted in
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