Major revelation on Times Square bomber reveals failures in Obama anti-terrorism May 7, 2:18 Anthony G. Martin The Times Square bomber has direct ties to the Fort Hood massacre--the terrorist attack on U.S. soil which killed American servicemen and women and which the Pentagon refuses to acknowledge as a terrorist attack by Muslim extremists.
In a new revelation yesterday, it turns out that the perpetrator of the failed Times Square attack had the very same Muslim imam as Major Hasan, the Fort Hood jihadist.
(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed).
The imam is the infamous Anwar al-Awlaki who served as a spiritual adviser to at least 3 of the hijackers who attacked the United States on 9/11. This is the same imam who was in regular contact with the Christmas Day 'underwear' bomber, who attempted to detonate an explosive device on an airplane flying directly above Detroit.
Thus, the 3 recent attempts by Islamic Jihadists to attack America all have at least one thing in common--direct connections with a Muslim imam who is at the center of the ongoing terrorist threat to the nation.
In addition, ABC News reported yesterday that the Times Square perpetrator, Faisal Shahzad, not only had direct contact with Muslim imam Anwar al-Awlaki but with Pakistani Taliban and the mastermind behind the Mumbai massacre:
Accused Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad linked up with the Pakistani Taliban through the internet, ABC News has been told by law enforcement and intelligence sources close to the investigation. Once the Taliban identified him as more valuable in the U.S. than in Pakistan, they trained him to return to execute his bomb attack.
But according to these sources, Shahzad also had a web of jihadist contacts that included big names tied to terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad, including the figure who has emerged as a central figure in many recent domestic terror attempts - radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki.
Besides Awlaki, sources say Shahzad was also linked to a key figure in the Pakistani Taliban, its Emir Beitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone missile strike in 2009. The Mehsuds had been family friends of Shahzad, who is the son of a former high-ranking Pakistani military officer.
Further, transcripts of the tower conversation with the plane on which Shahzad had boarded reveal an interesting microcosm of a larger problem with anti-terrorism measures in the Obama Administration.
In each of the attempts by Jihadists to attack and kill Americans since Obama took office, the failure of 2 of the plots had absolutely nothing to do with federal officials, Homeland Security, or even local law enforcement. The bombs simply failed to detonate. This does not amount to a 'thwarted' attack as some in the Obama Administration tend to think. Had the bombs detonated there would have been death and destruction. This points to some dangerous gaps in Homeland Security and local law enforcement.
The success of the Fort Hood attack apparently did nothing to prompt the Obama Administration to fill in those gaping holes. Instead they rely on rhetoric and appearances. Words, however, mean nothing unless actions back them up.
With each terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Obama took office, an ominous picture is emerging of a nation that is highly vulnerable. But the Administration would rather focus on Tea Party activists and smearing 70% of the American public that supports Arizona's new immigration law than to actually protect the country from the real dangers to our very existence posed by Muslim extremists.
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