He’s just a lonely boy…. lonely and BOOM!

The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner apparently turned to the Internet for counseling and companionship, writing in an online forum that he was “lonely” and had “never found a true Muslim friend.”
“I have no one to speak too [sic],” read a posting from January 2005, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was attending boarding school. “No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems.”

Read the whole Washington Post investigative journalism thingie, and you too, can join the millions of others who now know more about the college years of the Undi-bomber than they do those of the President of the United States.
h/t Peter C.

“We have no suggestion that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was improperly inspected”
Related.

A case of Peri-Millionaire Banker’s Son Stress Disorder nearly results in tragedy;

A man is on the no-fly list but is allowed to board the plane. Everyone flying on an inbound long-haul flight to the United States is forced to hand over excessively large amounts of liquids and gels and put the small amounts permitted into separate plastic bags, yet the no-fly guy’s material for bomb-making sails through undetected.
This time the last line of defense worked. Next time, the paradise-seeking jihadist might get lucky and find himself sitting next to, say, Charlie Sheen, too immersed in a lengthy treatise on how 9/11 was an inside job to notice the smoldering socks in the next seat; or to the same kind of nothing-to-see-here crowd who thought Major Hasan’s e-mails were “consistent with his research interests”.

(Speaking of the uncommon heroism of the earthbound, here’s commentary that cries out for a few minutes of combustive companionship in a two-seater…)
Update – This account mentioned in the comments looks to be legit.

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport

Times;

Lord Fraser said that there was “a growing suspicion about what the Libyans are up to with [Libyan Lockerbie bomber] al-Megrahi.” He said: “I and others understood that he was released on the grounds of compassion and that he was going to die.”

Previous – “Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?”
h/t tim

“Bomb-sniffing dogs on Vancouver transit worry Muslim leader.”
It’s a wonderful world we live in.

Via Andy McCarthy;

In effect, Pakistani intelligence is running its own secret war against America, a war bankrolled by the Saudis. These are the Taliban’s shadow partners. And they are winning. In effect, we are offering Pakistan-based insurgents 30,000 new targets with no changes in the rules of engagement. Even now, when our troops come under attack, they are not permitted to pursue enemy fighters back across the border and destroy their Pakistani redoubts. Imagine sending troops to France to free the French from the Nazis but failing to take out their Eagle’s Nest next door in Germany. Welcome to our war policy today in Afghanistan.

Much more at the link.

Ottawa Citizen

The fast-moving international case against a Pakistani-Canadian businessman charged with plotting a terror attack in Denmark and suspected of others in India moved into Pakistan on Monday night with news of the capture of another suspect.
[…]
If confirmed, Kashmiri’s arrest will expand the global nature of the case, which already has connections to Chicago, Copenhagen, Mumbai and Kanata. It would also highlight the intercontinental reach of suspected terrorist operations.
Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, and Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, 49, were arrested in Chicago by the FBI last month and accused of plotting the murder of an editor and cartoonist at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which ran controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammad in 2005. They face charges of conspiring to provide material support for terrorism and providing material support to terrorism.

Buried way, way down at the bottom…

According to his brother, Rana is “honest” and “hard-working.” In Monday’s edition of The Hill Times, Abbas Rana said the charges against his the brother were “false,” and that the ordeal had plunged his family into a nightmare.
[…]
“Abbas is a respected Parliament Hill journalist who has been on the The Hill Times staff for seven years,”

via Bourque

Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
h/t Robert W.

But New York City gets the circus!

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described [*!] mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early Friday.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
* Alleged!
Speaking of Sheikh Jihadi Extreme Makeover….

I knew I’d seen that face before!

Benjamin Kerstein;

Elected to enact sweeping, revolutionary change, especially in the Middle East, Obama’s efforts thus far have been an embarrassing failure. Netanyahu shows no signs of making preliminary concessions, Abbas is threatening to resign rather than face negotiations with Israel without a complete settlement freeze, and the Arab states show no signs of making any gestures toward normalization. Faced with humiliation on all fronts, Obama is currently busy trying to placate all sides, telling both us and the Palestinians what he thinks we want to hear, while convincing no one of his sincerity.
Less than a year into his term, then, Obama is presented with two potentially disastrous scenarios. First, he may come out of this looking weak, feckless, and incompetent in one of the areas he promised to be most effective and influential. The damage to his political standing and prestige could be immense. Second, and more importantly, his image (and, I suspect, self-image) as an omnipotent healer and messianic agent of change, already badly compromised, could be shattered completely. Given that his meteoric political rise was based on little more than that image – a fact of which he must be at least subconsciously aware – such an outcome would place not only his foreign policy clout but his entire presidency in jeopardy.
Given all this, it is not unthinkable that Obama may have concluded that the only way out of this impasse of his own making is to make an unexpected, game-changing move; one that would both remake the map of the Middle East and cement his reputation as the harbinger of a new politics and a “new world,” as he put it in his Cairo speech. Recognition of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state is precisely the kind of Hail Mary pass he may be looking for. It would bring him the adoration of his far-left base and the Arab nations, as well as many European politicians; it would turn him into the hero who defied the dreaded Israel Lobby; and it would write his name into the history books as the man who ended a century-old conflict. There might even be a second Nobel Prize in the offing, this time for actually accomplishing something. One imagines that such temptations may well be difficult to resist.

h/t Ben

ABC News;

U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

That sound you hear in the distance is the mainstream media changing gears from “Hasan The Hapless Victim” to finger pointing at the failure of those within the Obama administration to “connect the dots” … oh, wait…
Questions remain – victim of war or victim of feminism? Well, he’d never actually been to war….

Kim is of my best friends in dog sport, and owns one of my Mini Schnauzers. When I learned earlier today that she’d been on the scene at Fort Hood, I asked if she’d be willing to write about the experience. In her own words….

I was notified by dispatch that there were several shots fired and potentially several victims. The scene was not safe so we were instructed to “stage” close to the scene. While staging I was approached by a police officer that their was an “officer down!”…I told him I had not gotten a “code 4”, our code that the scene was safe for emergency responders to enter the scene. The officer left and came back again to me to tell me again there was an officer down and needed EMS NOW!
He assured me the scene was safe so we proceeded into the scene. Several bystanders were around and Ft Hood fire dept was already on scene. My partner went to a pt lying on the ground on her side of the ambulance and I approached the officer who had been shot; her gun shot wound was exposed which appeared to be potentially fatal due to the location, a tourniquet was applied prior to my arrival which probably saved her life; she was conscious but appeared very pale and probably in compensated shock at this point due to the massive amount of blood loss I witnessed around her.
I was then summoned to other patients calling for EMS; the next pt I approached was shot in the neck with a arterial bleed…I instructed bystanders to continue to hold pressure to the wound and gave them bandaging material. I triaged several pt’s with potentially life threatening wounds, each worse than the next.
A young man walked up to me and asked if I could help him, I asked him, “where are you shot?”, he told me in the chest…I directed him to go sit in my ambulance and an army medic sat with him and started oxygen and bandaging on him; in the mist of the madness I was trying to determine who would be the first to be transported still waiting on the helicopters to land so I could fly out the worst.
While getting more bandaging material off my ambulance several bystanders carried a soldier to my truck that had been shot in the head, he was conscious and breathing, he kept asking me “am I gonna die?”, I told him I was doing the best I could, knowing from experience his situation appeared bleak.
Behind my ambulance several bystanders were doing CPR on a lady that had obviously been fatally shot, in a mas-cal situation you do “the most good for the most people”…that means save the ones you can and black tag the un-salvageable…it’s a harsh truth but effective in this type of situation.
Since the helicopter was still not there I made the decision to take off and transport these two critical patients to Darnell Army Hosp which was about 4 mi away. I quickly dropped off those patients and headed back to the scene with an ER nurse as well to help. In the meantime, several other ambulances had showed up and others had been transported leaving me with one soldier shot in the shoulder, and deservedly last, the shooter was the last to leave the scene and was flown to a hosp approx 30 mil away since the local hosp’s were overwhelmed at this point.
I consider myself and seasoned and experienced medic but no one can prepare you for a war zone, which is exactly what this was…I felt so helpless trying to help so many with such limited resources. Thank God for all the bystanders, fire dept and community EMS services that came to our aide. Thank you officer Kimberly Munley for being so brave and fearlessly doing your job….

And you too, Kim.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
April, 2009 – “The report is not saying that veterans are extremists. Far from it,” Napolitano said on CNN’s State of the Union. “What it is saying is returning veterans are targets of right-wing extremist groups that are trying to recruit those to commit violent acts within the country. We want to do all we can to prevent that.”
November, 2009 – Napolitano said: “The investigation into the shootings has began and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the causes of this terrible crime, so let me not comment any further as the investigation is ongoing.” While she was in Brussels, reports out of the US suggested that the suspect in the killing of at least 13 people at the Fort Hood base shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is great) before opening fire.”

It’s the new “cry for help”.

According to the suspect’s cousin, Hasan was also harassed after 9/11 because of his ethnicity, and was called a “camel jockey.”

Well said: Horrific Outbreak of Stupidity
h/t Jason
Update: Not all are equally reluctant – “So we give congratulations to the Ummah for their jihadist operation executed by the brother Nidal Malik Hasan on the American base where he was working as a psychiatrist and recently (received orders to go Iraq), and he seemed upset and did not want to participate in this war, and he did not want to be among the ranks of infidels against his Muslim brothers”

It’s what we pay them the big bucks for.
h/t Stan

At The Torch:

Islamist bad guys and Afstan/British brass hats and frock coats

The entire West Side Highway, the roof of the Marriott Hotel directly below, and everything flying through the air, was on fire. I stood there for what seemed an eternally long time, fixated in shock and amazement as the cars on the West Side Highway blew up, one after another. It took me about two seconds to deduce that I needed to get out – immediately. Although we had a good evacuation procedure in place, I was not going to wait for it to be dictated to me. I grabbed my backpack, then a frightened Karen, and stressed in a loud, forceful manor laced with foul language (using everything in the book and then some!) that everyone needed to move now!

h/t Kathy Shaidle, who notes;

PS: Nice of Obama to show up in New York earlier this week for the memorial service for… Walter Cronkite, a man whose televised lies slandered American servicemen and helped sign the death warrants of millions of abanonded anti-communist Vietnamese, who died so that a bunch of spoiled, dirty hippies could live and spread their contagion throughout society for the next fifty years.
Ooops, Obama couldn’t make it to New York today though.

“Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?”

“Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference! “ *

Since nobody else seems willing to stick up for them;

A North African offshoot of al-Qaeda has China in its crosshairs because of its treatment of Muslim rioters in Urumqi last week.
A group called al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQM) is threatening attacks on the 50,000 Chinese workers in Algeria, according to a report prepared by international risk consultants Sterling Assynt and revealed in the South China Morning Post Tuesday.
The Chinese government is taking its first threat from Osama bin Laden’s deadly network seriously. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters: “We will keep a close eye on developments and make joint efforts with relevant countries to take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of overseas Chinese institutions and people.”

Via Andrew Keyes, (who’s waiting for a reaction from the left that will never come).

Jules Crittenden examines the explosive revelation;

So killing al-Qaeda leaders is not only a big controversial hush-hush secret, it’s also wrong.
OK, I’m confused. I thought that was what they were supposed to be doing. I’m pretty sure that’s what Bill Clinton had in mind when he was lobbing cruise missiles onto assorted patches of desert and rocky crags in Afghanistan. I know that is pretty much was George Bush was talking about with his “dead or alive” speech. In fact, when the U.S. military blew up Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the CIA started lobbing Hellfires into Yemen and Waziristan, I thought that was the basic idea. Kill al-Qaeda leaders.