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http://www.huffingtonpost.com


Federal officials suspect that the Nigerian man / would-be terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is tied to the al Quaeda network.

The Nigeria man was subdued and arrested after trying to bring down a Delta Airlines A-330-300 jumbo jetliner that was enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.

He had explosives hidden under his clothing strapped around his leg after returning back to his seat from one of the craft's bathrooms. The device or lethal powder was originally hidden under special underwear that he wore, at first in front of his private area.

The plane was making its final preps and approach, for it was about to land in Detroit when Umar decided to try to ignite the bomb. The craft landed safely and he was escorted off the vehicle by the Detroit police.

That IS the actual aircraft. It just LOOKS short and stubby because of the way that it was photographed. But his name under the pic ties him with the plane.

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Deep Thoughts On Jihadist Lingerie

The Daily Dish
28 Dec 2009 10:02 pm

With respect to this, a reader asks:

"Is that a bomb in your pants or are you just happy to see 30 virgins?"

[vNZsk39B]

I thought it was a promise of 70 virgins

[duribass]

I understood it to be 72.

Do these morons qualify for the Darwin award?

[popandopulus]

I understand that he might have suffered severe burns as a result of his attempt.

I hope that not one cc., pill, capsule syrup, ointment of painkiller was wasted on this reprehensible human piece of fecal matter.

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Seems the important thing now is to get as much info from this guy as possible, and apparently he's talking ....

Yemen says may harbor up to 300 Qaeda suspects

REUTERS
December 29, 2009

WORLD

LONDON (Reuters) - Yemen's Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi said on Tuesday there could be up to 300 al Qaeda militants in his country, some of whom may be planning attacks on Western targets.

"Of course there are a number of al Qaeda operatives in Yemen and some of their leaders. We realize this danger," he told BBC radio.

"And they may actually plan for attacks like the one we have just had in Detroit."

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, has claimed responsibility for Friday's attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit.

Asked to specify the exact number of al Qaeda operatives, Qirbi replied: "I can't give you really an exact figure. There are maybe hundreds of them: 200, 300 -- I don't have real (hard) figures."

Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up the plane on Christmas Day, lived in Yemen from August to December.

He is said to have told the FBI that there are many more like him prepared to carry out such attacks, according to the BBC report.

Qirbi called for proper intelligence-sharing to stop al Qaeda suspects from traveling to Yemen from countries known to be hotbeds of militancy such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

He appealed for more help from the international community to train and equip counter-terrorist forces to neutralize them.

"We have to work in a very joint fashion in partnership to combat terrorism," he said. "If we do that, the problem will be brought under control.

The United States, Britain and the European Union could do much more to improve Yemen's response to counter the threat, he said. "There is some support that is coming, but I must say it is inadequate."

"We need more training, we have to expand our counter-terrorism units and this means providing them with the necessary military equipment and ways of transportation; we are very short of helicopters."

(Reporting by Stefano Ambrogi; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

© Copyright 2009 Thomson Reuters

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


This boy had a very promising and lucrative caeer, according to the link above.

What went so terribly wrong with him that he wanted to resort to trying to blow up a commercial jetliner?

Here are some more pics of him below. The first 3 show him (wearing the red jacket) with a group of kids (classmates) who he went to London with. He must have been about 13, 14 or 15 back then.

So sad to see a young boy grow up into an Islamic extremist and do something as dispictable as being a suicidal terrorist! All of his adult life is gone now. Like Richard Reid & Zarcarius Mousoauwi, he'll be behind bars for the rest of his life! So sad.

[MiniBoy]

What went so terribly wrong with him that he wanted to resort to trying to blow up a commercial jetliner? The mind-numbing, tolerance-destroying effects of organized religion. Abrahamic faiths are particularly odious toward others. The same phenomenon that causes Christian freaks to blow up abortion clinics and murder doctors. Or deny equal rights to homosexuals. The same crap that makes Jews think they have some divine right to Palestine, even if they have to murder and imprison generations of non-Jews that were already living there to get what they want. The pure bull sh*t that was used to justify slavery. The same crap that says some will be "saved" while others will not, once Jesus lands his holy space ship in Israel and the "faithful" all rise up in naked rapture. Etc. and etc.

These religions are a scourge on the world. We'd be better off with people praying to a bag full of door knobs. Abolish this destructive, ancient nonsense and start educating everybody with real science.

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^ MidtownGuy, I'd be interested in hearing what about your post isn't bigoted: that is, targeted at a group you're not a member of.

[Qrhzbadu]

Since this terrorist wanted to blow himself up, I suggest we simply allow him to do just that. Let's put him in the middle of a field, wire him up with an identical device and set it off. Just before we flip the switch, we tell him, "We are glad to help you, only you can't take out a commercial airliner at the same time. Have a nice life with your 72 virgins, scumbag." Ka-boom! One less terrorist to worry about.

Oh, wait a minute, I must have been dreaming. What was I thinking? This fine, upstanding gentleman is innocent of all charges and must be afforded due process. And a Koran. And a prayer rug. And food. And shelter. And protection. And a television interview with Diane Sawyer.

[neonasafluni]

^ MidtownGuy, I'd be interested in hearing what about your post isn't bigoted: that is, targeted at a group you're not a member of.

By this definition of "bigoted", intolerance targeted at a group I'm not a member of, Yes! I am a bigot and that is most definitely a bigoted post. So would be the statement "I hate bigots" if I don't consider myself one.
It's really not very useful, just a provocative word to throw around. (which is fine, as my post was provocative as well.)

We're all bigots in some sense.

The Abrahamic interpretations that so many extremists are following seem to all have a horribly intolerant idea in common: that one's own name for a Supreme entity and one's own way of honoring that entity is the only righteous one. That others are damned or going to some kind of cosmic waiting room. Regarding Christianity I will say this...it's a pity so many Christians today pay so much attention to hateful outdated elements of the Old Testament and to the harmful ideas of an organized Church, and so little attention to the actual meaning of the message of Christ the historical figure.

[amannddo]

Since this terrorist wanted to blow himself up, I suggest we simply allow him to do just that. Let's put him in the middle of a field, wire him up with an identical device and set it off. Just before we flip the switch, we tell him, "We are glad to help you, only you can't take out a commercial airliner at the same time. Have a nice life with your 72 virgins, scumbag." Ka-boom! One less terrorist to worry about.

That has to be one of the funniest and well thought out post I've ever read. Have a Happy and safe New Year, Bob.

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...it's a pity so many Christians today pay so much attention to the harmful ideas of an organized Church, and so little attention to the actual meaning of the message of Christ the historical figure.

That's about the gist of it.

...it's a pity so many Christians today pay so much attention to hateful outdated elements of the Old Testament...

This: not so much. The Christian reading of the Bible is that Jesus came to free people from adherence to those outdated elements. Christians should be peaceful --and it's OK for them to eat pork.

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I understand that he might have suffered severe burns as a result of his attempt.

I hope that not one cc., pill, capsule syrup, ointment of painkiller was wasted on this reprehensible human piece of fecal matter.

Not to worry. He is getting free healthcare paid for by you and me, under the current cruel system.

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There'll be more indignities for the passenger to endure.

I remember when airline travel was so classy.

[Necedofer]

I remember when airline travel was so classy.

That started to erode when they were no longer allowed to hire stewardesses for their looks.

[jackie Obrian]

The glamor of flight

[ViagraPriceBuying]

This: not so much. The Christian reading of the Bible is that Jesus came to free people from adherence to those outdated elements. Christians should be peaceful --and it's OK for them to eat pork.

Evidence to the contrary surrounds us.

Pork and premarital sex are not a ticket to hell for most in the 21st century, but the example of eating pork is clearly not what I was referring to. I see self avowed "Christians" in the media every day disproving your statement about what they consider "outdated". For example, Sarah Palin and millions of followers think the dinosaurs lived a couple thousand years ago, and a dude on an Ark saved animals two-by-two. Millions and millions of today's Christians ARE still pushing the ideas of the Old Testament. They are the Fundamentalists. I think you have heard of them. They have been screwing up this country(and the world) for quite some time.

The self-defined Christians that are blowing up doctors, legislating against homosexual equality and rights, and all of the other things I mentioned in my post are not quoting from the New Testament when they spread hate and destruction, ablarc. They still adhere to the Old Testament's hate and violence. Listen to so many of the Evangelicals, the Catholics, etc...The "abomination" drivel from Leviticus...it's the Old Testament. Dominion over the Earth...and who cares if we kill whatever we want...Old Testament. These books are from the old Testament and they are very alive and well, STILL drilled in to young Christian minds and reinforcing the intolerance and destruction that has typified so much of Christianity for centuries.

I believe that what you describe is just your Christian reading of the bible, a reading shared by more enlightened souls...an emphasis on the NT and a sincerely peaceful spirit. Yet, others who call themselves Christians will stand with signs that read "God made an Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" and other such rubbish... as justification for denial of equal rights in society, discrimination, or much worse such as the fate of Matthew Shepherd, at whose funeral "Christians" had signs saying he was burning in hell, while his family was putting him in the ground. You've got the Pope telling millions of Christians in AIDS ridden countries that condoms are wrong, because of those "outdated elements" you seem to suggest are a thing of the past. I disagree. I believe Christianity, as being practiced by billions, is an intolerant system of beliefs that still includes fundamental faith in much of the Old Testament. Those with a modern, tolerant interpretation of their religion (like a Christianity buffet, pick and choose what u like) are not who my post was aimed at. I have family and friends that attend their house of worship at holidays or whatever...I (mostly)respect their (mostly)modern form of religion. I want to make clear my post was aimed more squarely at extremists who have religion the way Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has it.
I really, really, don't like people who use religion as a basis for bigotry. And there we have that word again. :-)
I'd just rather see people worshipping, or practicing ritual, in small informal groups the way the very early Christians did it.

I've noted from some of your past posts that you believe Islam to be violent, based on your direct knowledge of things written in the Koran. It's a bit hypocritical, is it not, when you go on to say that the Christian Bible is only violent in parts...we'll just ignore the nasty half...a modern reading of it puts things like stoning someone to death in their proper historical consideration...yet you cast Islam with a much wider net? The same benefit of the doubt is not given to peace loving Muslims who pick and choose from their book the same way you do from yours. At least my bias against Abrahamic faiths extends to condemning all three of them equally. Three faiths whose inconsistency, hypocrisy, and occasional truths are hopelessly intertwined to the point where most adherents are unable to distinguish the pearls of wisdom from the hateful parts. That's why I say, at this point, I would rather see them, in their current organized "Earthly" form, relegated to the dust heap of history, in favor of science and less proselytizing or violence-justifying forms of spirituality.

Ablarc, I'm glad you are a peaceful man. It's sad that so many others who share your faith in Christianity don't conduct themselves as kindly.

[Sarbrienna]

LOVE that "glamour of flight" link!

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It seems that a lot of people (especially new yorkers) LOVE to talk about these"terrorists" when they have a very little understanding of them.As an enemy of this country...I guess i will share a little.This country is run by COWARDS!They were warned several years ago to stay out of the holy land and underestimated ONE person who practically funds this war himself.This country WAS suppossed to be a democracy...a government "by the people , for the people". That alone justifies ANY means of attacks these people choose to committ against this country.HIT THE PEOPLE!The troops now have invaded their country and their forces are now the 'FREEDOM FIGHTERS" that are cutting the heads off the american terrorists.As a native american indian ,MOHAWK to be precise, I damn well understand these people and their plight.They too do not want to end up on a reservation .they too do not want to lose their land. they do not want to be subject to this countrys rules and laws.FIGHT ON!!