No links, no quotes. It just seems really curious that security practically strip-search Norwgian grandmothers, but they let Abdul get onto a plane with high explosives strapped to his crotch. There should have been some red flags in this case, not the least of which is that he was already on a "watch list".
Let's see: you've got a white grandma, and you've got a male Muslim of the right age, already on a "watch list", boarding a plane on a one-way ticket. Golly, who's the most logical candidate for a more intensive look? Forget "political correctness"; I think saving a few hundred lives just might trump that.
It may be interesting to know that the detonator failed, with the result that the crotch-bomber failed in his mission (and would likely never have been able to service his 72 virgins, in any case) - but aren't the media simply providing terrorists with a handbook of what worked and what didn't? Do they really need to tell them that the detonator was defective? Granted, the terrorists might have figured it out, but when media draw them diagrams, are they not treading dangerously close to complicity?
And then there are the fools in the BO administration: Janet Napolitano, BO's head of DHS, is actually stupid enough to claim that "the system worked". Say what? Jannie, babe - the system most definitely failed. The only thing that prevented disaster was a crapped-up detonator, and it wasn't your team of crack agents that took the bad guy down - it was the work of some seriously ticked-off passengers.
In Jannie's world, the system worked because her folks were there, ready to respond, after a potential disaster was averted. And some folks wonder why I oppose government involvement in health insurance.
