President Pinocchio on Terrorism

[PoliticalChic]

Obama's claim.....no attacks?

Really?

July 21, 2010
39. Islam Convert Creates American Hit List
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Paul G. Rockwood Jr., an American citizen, became an adherent of Anwar al-Awlaki’s ideology of violent jihad after converting to Islam. In studying al-Awlaki’s teachings, Rockwood came to believe it was his religious responsibility to seek revenge against anyone who defiled Islam. He created a list of 15 individuals to be targeted for assassination, including several members of the U.S. military. Rockwood is said to have researched explosive techniques and discussed the possibility of killing his targets with a gunshot to the head or through mail bombs. Nadia Piroska, aka Maria Rockwood, Paul’s wife, knowingly transported the list to Anchorage, Alaska, to share with an unnamed individual who apparently shared Rockwood’s ideology. The list then made it into the hands of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Anchorage.
Rockwood was charged with making false statements to the FBI in a domestic terrorism charge, while Nadia was charged with making false statements to the FBI in connection to the case against her husband. Paul was sentenced to eight years in prison, while his wife was sentenced to five years of probation.
May 3, 2010

38.Explosive-Filled SUV in Times Square
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Faisal Shahzad, age 36, a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, attempted to detonate explosives in an SUV parked in Times Square. After explosives training in Pakistan, he is said to have received $12,000 from entities affiliated with the terrorist organization Tehrik-e-Taliban to fund the attack. Following the failed bombing attempt, Shahzad attempted to flee the country to Dubai, but was arrested before the flight was able to leave New York’s JFK airport.
Shahzad pleaded guilty to 10 counts, including conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism and to use a weapon of mass destruction. He was sentenced to life in prison and is being held at the same Colorado supermax prison as Richard Reid and Jose Padilla.

March 26, 2010
37. Taxi Driver Conspires with al-Qaeda
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Chicago taxi driver Raja Lahrasib Khan, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, was arrested by the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on two counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. According to the charges, Khan was affiliated with Ilyas Kashmiri, leader of the al-Qaeda-linked extremist group Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami in Kashmir, and has previously been indicted in the U.S. on terrorism charges.
Khan originally transferred $950 to Pakistan, to be delivered to Kashmiri, and later attempted to send around $1,000 provided to him by an undercover agent. Khan’s son was stopped by government agents at Chicago’s O’Hare airport before leaving the country. The criminal complaint filed against Khan also alleges that he had discussed plans to bomb an unnamed sports stadium in the United States.
Khan has since pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization as part of a plea deal. He was sentenced in 2012 to seven and a half years in prison.

December 25, 2009
36.Underwear Bomber
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a now 28-year-old Nigerian engineering student who lived in London, boarded a plane from Nigeria to Amsterdam and then flew from Amsterdam to the U.S. It was on this second flight when he attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear as the plane began to land. The device ignited but did not detonate, and passengers quickly stopped Abdulmutallab from trying again, leading to his arrest by U.S. authorities upon landing in Detroit. The bomb, containing the explosives PETN and TATP, was similar to the failed device used by Richard Reid in his shoe in 2001.
Media accounts following the plot indicate that Abdulmutallab admits involvement with al-Qaeda in Yemen and pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. In February 2012, Adulmutallab was sentenced to life in prison following his conviction.

November 5, 2009
35. Attack at Fort Hood, Texas
Individuals directly involved:
Attack successful, terrorist apprehended
A U.S. Army psychiatrist, Major Hasan, 44, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. His actions were apparently motivated by former Yemeni al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” as Hasan conducted the attack. The U.S. government has labeled the incident “workplace violence.” However, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, in a special report, labeled the case as “the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.”
Major Hasan was severely wounded in the attack, but survived, and faces pre-meditated murder and attempted murder charges. The case, now in the sentencing phase, is awaiting several more steps including presidential approval if capital punishment is the verdict. A judge rejected Major Hasan’s “defense of others” strategy, which would have required him to prove that he acted to prevent immediate harm to others; in this case, to Taliban fighters. Instead, Major Hasan has decided to make the case that the United States’ involvement in the Middle East is “illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims.”

October 21, 2009
34.Material Support to al-Qaeda
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled. One terrorist apprehended, investigation ongoing for co-conspirator
Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra, co-conspirators, were indicted on charges of providing and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and al-Qaeda, conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country, and conspiracy to provide false information to law enforcement.
The conspirators expressed their desire to participate in violent armed jihad based on their Middle Eastern terrorist training. Mehanna continued to post al-Qaeda materials via the Internet. Mehanna pleaded not guilty to charges against him and has since been convicted. He is serving 17 and a half years in federal prison. Abousamra is thought by the FBI to have left the United States for Aleppo, Syria, in 2006 and a federal arrest warrant was issued in 2009. The FBI is currently offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to his capture and return to the United States.

September 24, 2009
33. Dallas Skyscraper Bombing Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Maher Husein Smadi, a 25-year old Jordanian, was apprehended in an attempt to plant a bomb in a Dallas skyscraper. Originally identified through FBI monitoring of extremist chat rooms, Smadi was arrested and charged after agents posing as terrorist cell members gave Smadi a fake bomb, which he later attempted to detonate. Smadi was found guilty and sentenced to 24 years in prison. Smadi will be deported to Jordan after his internment.

September 23, 2009
32. Illinois Car Bomb Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Michael Finton, or “Talib Islam,” 35, an American citizen, was arrested on September 23, 2009, by undercover FBI agents after attempting to detonate a car bomb filled with what he believed to be close to one ton of explosives outside the Paul Findley Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown Springfield, Illinois. The blast was also intended to destroy the nearby office of Representative Aaron Schock (R–IL). Evidence presented against Finton has shown that he expressed a desire to become a jihadist fighter and was aware that his planned attack would cause civilian injuries. He has been arrested on charges of attempted murder of federal employees and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Finton pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 28 years in prison

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You wanna talk about totals or is that not important to you?

Face It! George W. Bush was working diligently to get tax cuts for the rich and completely ignored warnings from the CIA, FBI, etc. which told him Osama Bin laden was preparing to attack us with commercial airliners:

Bush Warned of Hijackings Before 9-11

"You wanna talk about totals or is that not important to you?"
Totals of what....soldiers or civilians?

1. 2,753 people who died at the World Trade Center during the attacks, and the 2,977 overall 9/11 deaths that include the strike at the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville, Pa.Sep 9, 2015
Civilians, you dunce.

2. Warnings?????

He didn't get any warnings, you moron.

"There was . . . an awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles."

A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers (washingtonpost.com)


"...information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies. ... In a press briefing, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the threats were very general and did not mention a specific time, place or mode of terrorist attack." http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6,_2001,_President's_Daily_Briefing_Memo_(External_Links)

Pretty specific warning, huh?


But good enough for brain damaged Democrat supporters, huh?


3. And...do you know who asked for intelligence briefings?

"The White House said the presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was requested by Bush, who sought information about the possibility of an al Qaeda attack in the United States."
CNN.com - White House releases*bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004


Seems like Bush was far more responsible than the oaf in the White House now.....the one who took a nap while Benghazi was under attack.



4. "BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief"
BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief

He never said no attacks fool. Listen to what he said, not what you wanted him to say.

"He never said no attacks fool. Listen to what he said, not what you wanted him to say."

The message he intended for dunces like you, is clear.

There is a vast gulf between what Barack Hussein Obama spews, and the truth. He actually says this "no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland. "
Of course the meaning he hopes has moment is how he has protected America.

He hasn't; he has merely shown a ability to parse the language in the manner of Bill 'the rapist' Clinton's " "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Obama version of keeping America safe and protected:


May 7, 2007
24. Fort Dix Plot
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Six men were arrested in a plot to attack Fort Dix, a U.S. Army post in New Jersey. The plan involved using assault rifles and grenades to attack and kill U.S. soldiers. Five of the alleged conspirators had conducted training missions in the nearby Pocono Mountains. The sixth helped to obtain weapons. The arrests were made after a 16-month FBI operation that included infiltrating the group. The investigation began after a store clerk alerted authorities after discovering a video file of the group firing weapons and calling for jihad. The group has no known direct connections to any international terrorist organization.
In December 2008, five of the men were found guilty on conspiracy charges but were acquitted of charges of attempted murder. Four were also convicted on weapons charges. The five men received sentences ranging from 33 years to life plus 30 years. The sixth co-defendant pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the others in illegal possession of weapons and was sentenced to 20 months in jail.

April 11, 2007
23. Plot to Bomb Americans in the U.S., Europe
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Christopher Paul is a U.S. citizen from Columbus, Ohio. He joined al-Qaeda in the 1990s and conspired to target Americans in the United States and abroad. In 1999, he became connected to an Islamic terrorist cell in Germany, where he plotted to target Americans at foreign vacation resorts. He later returned to Ohio and was arrested for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction—specifically, explosive devices—“against targets in Europe and the United States.” Paul pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, his appeals were denied.
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth


March 10, 2007
22. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-Led Plots
Attacks both successful and foiled, terrorist apprehended
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, captured in Pakistan in 2003, was involved in a number of terrorist plots and is one of the most senior bin Laden operatives ever captured. He is being held at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. In March 2007, Mohammed admitted to helping plan, organize, and run the 9/11 attacks. He also claimed responsibility for planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the 2002 bombings of nightclubs in Bali and a Kenyan hotel. He has stated that he was involved in the decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and took responsibility for helping to plan the failed shoe-bomb attack by Richard Reid, along with plots to attack Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf, Big Ben, various targets in Israel, the Panama Canal, Los Angeles, Chicago, the Empire State Building, and U.S. nuclear power stations. He had also plotted to assassinate Pope John Paul II and former President Bill Clinton. He and his associates have delayed and prolonged pre-trial motions and they continue into 2015.

December 6, 2006
21. Illinois Mall Grenade Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Derrick Shareef was arrested on charges of planning to set off hand grenades in a shopping mall in Rockford, Ill., outside Chicago. Shareef reportedly acted alone and was arrested after meeting with an undercover Joint Terrorism Task Force agent. FBI reports indicated that the mall was one of several potential targets, including courthouses, city halls, and government facilities. Shareef, however, settled on attacking a mall in the days immediately preceding Christmas because he believed it would cause the greatest amount of chaos and damage. Shareef, who was also found to have connections to convicted terrorist Hassan Abujihaad, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and after pleading guilty, was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

August 9, 2006
20. Plot to Lace Airliners with Liquid Explosives
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
British law enforcement stopped a terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound commercial airliners with liquid explosives. Twenty-four suspects were arrested in the London area. The style of the plot raised speculation that al-Qaeda was behind it, but no concrete evidence could initially be found. Since the trials, the acquisition of new al-Qaeda documents have revealed that members of the plot met and communicated with Rashid Rauf (a British al-Qaeda operative who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2008).
The United Kingdom initially indicted 15 of the 24 arrested individuals on charges ranging from conspiring to committing murder to planning to commit terrorist acts. In April 2008, eight men were brought to trial. In September, the jury found none of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft, but three guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. The jury was unable to reach verdicts on four of the men. One man was found not guilty on all counts.
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth
Obama’s comment obscures the truth that in his eight years in office, as shown by the sharp increase in the number of Islamist plots and successful attacks, the homeland has been less safe.
Claiming victory while the U.S. is in the most active period of terrorist activity since 9/11 is not only pushing a false narrative, but it risks diverting our attention from what needs to be done to defend the U.S. homeland."
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

June 23, 2006
19. Sears Tower Bombing Plot
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Seven men were arrested in Miami and Atlanta for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, FBI offices, and other government buildings around the country. The arrests resulted from an investigation involving an FBI informant. Allegedly, Narseal Batiste was the leader of the group and first suggested attacking the Sears Tower in December 2005.
All of the suspects pleaded not guilty. On December 13, 2007, Lyglenson Lemorin was acquitted of all charges, but deported in 2011. The jury failed to reach a verdict on the other six. The second trial ended in a mistrial in April 2008. In the third trial, the jury convicted five of the men on multiple conspiracy charges and acquitted Naudimar Herrera on all counts. On November 20, 2009, the five were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to 13.5 years, with Batiste receiving the longest sentence.

April 27, 2006
18. NYC Subway Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Conducting online surveillance of chat rooms, the FBI discovered a plot to attack underground transit links between New York City and New Jersey. Eight suspects, including Assem Hammoud, an al-Qaeda loyalist living in Lebanon, were identified for plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels. Hammoud, a self-proclaimed operative for al-Qaeda, admitted to the plot. He was held by Lebanese authorities but was not extradited because the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon. In June 2008, Lebanese authorities released him on bail. In February 2012, Hammoud was convicted in a Lebanese court. He was sentenced to two years in prison, which he had already served.

April 20, 2006
17. Atlanta Residents Target D.C. Landmarks
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, from Atlanta, Ga., were accused of conspiracy, having discussed terrorist targets with alleged terrorist organizations. They allegedly met with Islamic extremists in the U.S. and gathered video surveillance of potential targets in the Washington, D.C., area, including the U.S. Capitol and the World Bank headquarters, and sent the videos to a London Islamist group. Ahmed is said also to have traveled to Pakistan with the goal of joining Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.
Both men were indicted for providing material support to terrorist organizations and pleaded not guilty. In June 2009, a federal district judge found Ahmed “guilty of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists here and overseas.” Ahmed was subsequently sentenced to 13 years in jail. Sadequee was also found guilty and sentenced to 17 years.

March 3, 2006
16. SUV into College Crowd
Attack successful, terrorist apprehended
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old Iranian native, drove his SUV into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, injuring six people on March 3, 2006. The reasoning, he stated, behind the attack was retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world. Taheri-azar called police shortly after the incident, and turned himself over to authorities a few miles from his hit-and-run. Taheri-azar was sentenced to a prison term of at least 26 years and two months, after pleading guilty in 2008 to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Obama pledged to make his counterterrorism policies more nimble, more transparent, and more ethical than the ones pursued by the George W. Bush administration."
Obama and Terrorism


Let's see how he's done.....

February 19, 2006
15. Plot to Attack U.S. Military in Iraq
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Amawi, El-Hindi, and Mazloum were arrested in Toledo, Ohio, for conspiring to kill people outside the United States, including U.S. Armed Forces personnel serving in Iraq. The men also conspired to train and arm for a violent jihad against the United States, both domestically and abroad. Training involved use of materials including those found on secure and exclusive jihadist websites, downloaded and copied training videos, and materials for jihad training sessions. The men also were found to have provided material support to terrorist organizations and to have verbally threatened attacks on President George W. Bush. The investigation was begun with the help of an informant who was approached to help train the group. In June 2008, the three men were convicted of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq, and other terrorism-related violations. Amawi was sentenced to 20 years, El-Hindi to 13 years, and Mazloum to approximately eight years.

December 5, 2005
14.Wyoming Refinery, Pipeline Bombing Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Michael C. Reynolds was arrested by the FBI and charged with involvement in a plot to blow up a Wyoming natural-gas refinery; the Transcontinental Pipeline, a natural-gas pipeline from the Gulf Coast to New York and New Jersey; and a Standard Oil refinery in New Jersey. He was arrested while trying to pick up a $40,000 payment for planning the attack. Shannen Rossmiller, his purported contact, was a Montana judge and private citizen working with the FBI. Rossmiller posed as a jihadist, tricking Reynolds into revealing his plan. The FBI later found explosives in a storage locker in Reynolds’s hometown of Wilkes–Barre, Pa. Reynolds claimed that he was doing much the same as Rossmiller, and was working as a private citizen to find terrorists.
Reynolds was convicted of providing material support to terrorists, soliciting a crime of violence, unlawful distribution of explosives, and unlawful possession of a hand grenade. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

July 5, 2005
13. National Guard Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James were members of a group who were arrested in Los Angeles and charged with conspiring to attack National Guard facilities, synagogues, and other targets in the Los Angeles area. Kevin James allegedly founded Jamiyyat ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), a radical Islamic prison group, and converted Levar Washington and recruited others to the group’s mission. The JIS allegedly planned to finance its operations by robbing gas stations. After Washington and Patterson were arrested for robbery, police and federal agents began a terrorist investigation, and a search of Washington’s apartment revealed a target list.
James and Washington pleaded guilty in December 2007. James was sentenced to 16 years in prison and Washington to 22 years. Patterson received 151 months, while Samana was found unfit to stand trial and was initially detained in a federal prison mental facility. He was later sentenced to 70 months in jail.

June 5, 2005
12. Jihad Training Camp
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani immigrant, was arrested in Lodi, Calif., after allegedly lying to the FBI about his attendance at an Islamic terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
Hamid was found guilty of providing himself as “material support” to terrorists and three counts of providing false statements to the FBI. In interviews with the FBI, he confessed that he specifically requested to come to the United States after receiving training in order to carry out jihad. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hamid’s conviction in a split decision. A federal district judge is currently considering an appeal from his lawyers while he is held in an Arizona prison.

August 27, 2004
11. GOP National Convention Bombing Plot
Individuals directly involved:
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, both reportedly self-radicalized, were arrested for plotting to bomb a subway station near Madison Square Garden in New York City before the Republican National Convention. An undercover detective from the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence Division infiltrated the group, providing information to authorities, and later testified against Elshafay and Siraj. Siraj was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Elshafay, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty and received a lighter, five-year sentence for testifying against his co-conspirator.
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

 

[Campbell]

And this...from the imbecile's link:

"Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has read the memo, told ABCNEWS today: "They raised a very serious terrorism concern and threat to the United States, and it involved the use of training at aviation schools and terrorists from the Middle East. That should have been fair warning."


It was under the Clinton administration that the above information was NOT ALLOWED TO BE SHARED BETWEEN FBI AND CIA!!!

"In 1995, while America’s intelligence agencies were still investigating al Qaeda's 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, the Clinton administration strengthened FISA to a degree that was unprecedented. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick called for increased restrictions on information-sharing between intelligence (CIA) and law-enforcement (FBI) agencies. In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:


“We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”
The Wall of Separation between Law-Enforcement and Intelligence - Discover the Networks



Democrats have worked assiduously to make this nation less safe.

AUGUST '01 BRIEF IS SAID TO WARN OF ATTACK PLANS

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

Continue reading the main story



The Congressional report last year, citing efforts by Al Qaeda operatives beginning in 1997 to attack American soil, said that operatives appeared to have a support structure in the United States and that Mr. bin Laden ''wanted to hijack airplanes'' to gain the release of imprisoned extremists.

AND THEN....AFTER IT HAPPENED THE STUPID ASSED BUSH INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO HARM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! (and the last I heard they had never found any WMD's.)

 

[PoliticalChic]

And this...from the imbecile's link:

"Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has read the memo, told ABCNEWS today: "They raised a very serious terrorism concern and threat to the United States, and it involved the use of training at aviation schools and terrorists from the Middle East. That should have been fair warning."


It was under the Clinton administration that the above information was NOT ALLOWED TO BE SHARED BETWEEN FBI AND CIA!!!

"In 1995, while America’s intelligence agencies were still investigating al Qaeda's 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, the Clinton administration strengthened FISA to a degree that was unprecedented. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick called for increased restrictions on information-sharing between intelligence (CIA) and law-enforcement (FBI) agencies. In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:


“We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”
The Wall of Separation between Law-Enforcement and Intelligence - Discover the Networks



Democrats have worked assiduously to make this nation less safe.

AUGUST '01 BRIEF IS SAID TO WARN OF ATTACK PLANS

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

Continue reading the main story



The Congressional report last year, citing efforts by Al Qaeda operatives beginning in 1997 to attack American soil, said that operatives appeared to have a support structure in the United States and that Mr. bin Laden ''wanted to hijack airplanes'' to gain the release of imprisoned extremists.

AND THEN....AFTER IT HAPPENED THE STUPID ASSED BUSH INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO HARM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!

1. The reason you wish to change the subject of the thread from the title must be that the OP and following posts are 100% accurate and correct.

And so is this:

2. Warnings?????

He didn't get any warnings, you moron.

"There was . . . an awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles."

A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers (washingtonpost.com)


"...information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies. ... In a press briefing, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the threats were very general and did not mention a specific time, place or mode of terrorist attack."http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6,_2001,_President's_Daily_Briefing_Memo_(External_Links)

Pretty specific warning, huh?


But good enough for brain damaged Democrat supporters, huh?


3. And...do you know who asked for intelligence briefings?

"The White House said the presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was requested by Bush, who sought information about the possibility of an al Qaeda attack in the United States."
CNN.com - White House releases*bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004


Seems like Bush was far more responsible than the oaf in the White House now.....the one who took a nap while Benghazi was under attack.



4. "BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief"
BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief

 

[Campbell]

And this...from the imbecile's link:

"Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has read the memo, told ABCNEWS today: "They raised a very serious terrorism concern and threat to the United States, and it involved the use of training at aviation schools and terrorists from the Middle East. That should have been fair warning."


It was under the Clinton administration that the above information was NOT ALLOWED TO BE SHARED BETWEEN FBI AND CIA!!!

"In 1995, while America’s intelligence agencies were still investigating al Qaeda's 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, the Clinton administration strengthened FISA to a degree that was unprecedented. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick called for increased restrictions on information-sharing between intelligence (CIA) and law-enforcement (FBI) agencies. In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:


“We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”
The Wall of Separation between Law-Enforcement and Intelligence - Discover the Networks



Democrats have worked assiduously to make this nation less safe.

AUGUST '01 BRIEF IS SAID TO WARN OF ATTACK PLANS

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

Continue reading the main story



The Congressional report last year, citing efforts by Al Qaeda operatives beginning in 1997 to attack American soil, said that operatives appeared to have a support structure in the United States and that Mr. bin Laden ''wanted to hijack airplanes'' to gain the release of imprisoned extremists.

AND THEN....AFTER IT HAPPENED THE STUPID ASSED BUSH INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO HARM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!

1. The reason you wish to change the subject of the thread from the title must be that the OP and following posts are 100% accurate and correct.

And so is this:

2. Warnings?????

He didn't get any warnings, you moron.

"There was . . . an awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles."

A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers (washingtonpost.com)


"...information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies. ... In a press briefing, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the threats were very general and did not mention a specific time, place or mode of terrorist attack."http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6,_2001,_President's_Daily_Briefing_Memo_(External_Links)

Pretty specific warning, huh?


But good enough for brain damaged Democrat supporters, huh?


3. And...do you know who asked for intelligence briefings?

"The White House said the presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was requested by Bush, who sought information about the possibility of an al Qaeda attack in the United States."
CNN.com - White House releases*bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004


Seems like Bush was far more responsible than the oaf in the White House now.....the one who took a nap while Benghazi was under attack.



4. "BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief"
BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.


Ten Years Later, President Bush Tries to Explain His Deer-in-Headlights Reaction to the World Trade Center Attack

 

[PoliticalChic]

And this...from the imbecile's link:

"Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has read the memo, told ABCNEWS today: "They raised a very serious terrorism concern and threat to the United States, and it involved the use of training at aviation schools and terrorists from the Middle East. That should have been fair warning."


It was under the Clinton administration that the above information was NOT ALLOWED TO BE SHARED BETWEEN FBI AND CIA!!!

"In 1995, while America’s intelligence agencies were still investigating al Qaeda's 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, the Clinton administration strengthened FISA to a degree that was unprecedented. Specifically, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick called for increased restrictions on information-sharing between intelligence (CIA) and law-enforcement (FBI) agencies. In a 1995 memo to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, titled “Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations,” Gorelick wrote the following:


“We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”
The Wall of Separation between Law-Enforcement and Intelligence - Discover the Networks



Democrats have worked assiduously to make this nation less safe.

AUGUST '01 BRIEF IS SAID TO WARN OF ATTACK PLANS

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

Continue reading the main story



The Congressional report last year, citing efforts by Al Qaeda operatives beginning in 1997 to attack American soil, said that operatives appeared to have a support structure in the United States and that Mr. bin Laden ''wanted to hijack airplanes'' to gain the release of imprisoned extremists.

AND THEN....AFTER IT HAPPENED THE STUPID ASSED BUSH INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY. SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO HARM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!

1. The reason you wish to change the subject of the thread from the title must be that the OP and following posts are 100% accurate and correct.

And so is this:

2. Warnings?????

He didn't get any warnings, you moron.

"There was . . . an awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles."

A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers (washingtonpost.com)


"...information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies. ... In a press briefing, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the threats were very general and did not mention a specific time, place or mode of terrorist attack."http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6,_2001,_President's_Daily_Briefing_Memo_(External_Links)

Pretty specific warning, huh?


But good enough for brain damaged Democrat supporters, huh?


3. And...do you know who asked for intelligence briefings?

"The White House said the presidential daily briefing, or PDB, was requested by Bush, who sought information about the possibility of an al Qaeda attack in the United States."
CNN.com - White House releases*bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004


Seems like Bush was far more responsible than the oaf in the White House now.....the one who took a nap while Benghazi was under attack.



4. "BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief"
BOMBSHELL: Obama Never Once Met With His Defense Intelligence Chief

President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a ''closely held intelligence report'' that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was ''historical'' in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.

Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked the White House to make the Aug. 6 briefing memorandum public. The A.P. account of it was attributed to ''several people who have seen the memo.'' The White House has said that nothing in it pointed specifically to the kind of attacks that actually took place a month later.

"There was . . . an awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers using airplanes as missiles."

A CIA spokesman said the agency routinely passed on intelligence citing the possibility that al Qaeda might be planning to hijack an airliner as part of a terrorist action against the United States. But a suicide attack involving an aircraft was never envisioned, the spokesman said."
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers (washingtonpost.com)


"...information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies. ... In a press briefing, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the threats were very general and did not mention a specific time, place or mode of terrorist attack."http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.ph...sident's_Daily_Briefing_Memo_(External_Links)

Pretty specific warning, huh?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Obama: "...no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland. "
The Obama/Clinton Plan? Bring in thousands of unvetted Muslims from the cauldrons of terrorism


"But...the oddity is that, while settling in the West, many of these refugees begin to develop a hatred for their new home...and plan to take revenge on it with only its final destruction as the fitting punishment.
Even less understandable, those Muslims who settle and assimilate often have children, brought up in the West, yet identify as opposition to it, and desire its annihilation."
Scruton



August 4, 2004
10. Pakistani Diplomat Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain were charged with plotting to purchase a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. With the help of an informant, the FBI set up a sting to catch Mohammad Hossain in a fake terrorist conspiracy. The informant offered details of a fake terrorist plot, claiming that he needed the missiles to murder a Pakistani diplomat in New York City. An investigation by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local police contributed to the arrest. Aref and Hossain were found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to conceal material support for terrorism and were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

August 3, 2004
9. 'Black Day of Terror'
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Eight members of a terrorist cell led by Dhiren Barot were arrested for plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions in New York, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J. The plots included what the conspirators called a “memorable black day of terror” that would have included detonating a dirty bomb. A July 2004 police raid on Barot’s house in Pakistan yielded a number of incriminating files on a laptop computer, including instructions for building car bombs. Barot pleaded guilty and was convicted in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to commit mass murder and sentenced to 40 years. His seven co-conspirators were sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to 26 years on related charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.

November 28, 2003
8. Ohio Shopping Mall Bombing Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Nuradin M. Abdi, a Somali citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and charged in a plot to bomb a local shopping mall. Abdi was an associate of convicted terrorists Christopher Paul and Iyman Faris and admitted to conspiring with the two to provide material support to terrorists. Abdi has since pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, one of the four counts for which he was indicted. He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in jail per the terms of a plea agreement. After being released from prison, Abdi was deported to his home country of Somalia in 2012.

June 27, 2003
7. Virginia Jihad Network
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Eleven men were arrested in Alexandria, Va., for weapons counts and for violating the U.S. Neutrality Acts. Four of the 11 men pleaded guilty. Upon further investigation, the remaining seven were indicted on additional charges of conspiring to support terrorist organizations. They were found to have connections with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a terrorist organization that targets the Indian government. The authorities stated that the Virginia men had used paintball games to train and prepare for battle. The group had also acquired surveillance and night vision equipment and wireless video cameras.

June 8, 2003
6. Bush Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen of Jordanian descent, was arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges that he conspired to kill President George W. Bush, hijack airplanes, and provide support to al-Qaeda. He was arrested while attending Medina University in Saudi Arabia, where he had joined an al-Qaeda cell. His plans, according to authorities, were to kill President Bush and then establish an al-Qaeda cell in the United States, with himself as the head. He was sentenced to life in prison and is currently being held in the supermax security prison in Florence, Colorado.

March 28, 2003
5. Father, Son Assist al-Qaeda
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani citizen with permanent residency status in the U.S., was arrested in March 2003 and charged with five counts of providing material and financial support to al-Qaeda. Uzair attempted to help another Pakistani, Majid Khan, an al-Qaeda operative, gain access to the United States via immigration fraud. Uzair was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Saifullah Paracha, Uzair’s father, a 67-year-old citizen of Pakistan and resident alien of the U.S., is being held at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. He is believed to have had close ties to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and Mohammed’s nephew Ammar al-Baluchi. Saifullah is said to have used his international business connections to help al-Qaeda procure chemical and biological explosives and assist in their shipment to the U.S.

March 1, 2003
4.Brooklyn Bridge Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Iyman Faris, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kashmir, was arrested for conspiring to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge. He devised the plot after meetings with al-Qaeda leadership, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The New York City Police Department learned of the plot, and Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaeda. He was later sentenced in federal district court to 20 years in prison, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement.


September 14, 2002
3. Lackawanna Six
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
When the FBI arrested Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Mukhtar al-Bakri in upstate New York, the press dubbed them the “Lackawanna Six.” Five of the six had been born and raised in Lackawanna, N.Y., and all six are American citizens of Yemeni descent. They had stated that they were going to Pakistan to attend a religious camp, but attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan instead. The six men pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing support to al-Qaeda. All the men have served their jail sentences and are now living freely in western New York.

May 8, 2002
2. Padilla, al-Qaeda Conspiracy
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
U.S. officials arrested Jose Padilla in May 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as he returned to the United States from Pakistan, where he met with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and received al-Qaeda training and instructions. Upon his arrest, he was initially charged as an enemy combatant, and for planning to use a dirty bomb (an explosive laced with radioactive material). Along with Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted in August 2007 of terrorism conspiracy and material support. Padilla was found guilty by a civilian jury after a three-month trial, and he was later sentenced to 21 years in prison.


December 22, 2001
1. Shoe Bomber
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden who trained in Afghanistan, Richard Reid, hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami on which he attempted to light the fuse with a match. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended aboard the plane by passengers and flight attendants. A U.S. federal court sentenced him to life in prison, and he is currently incarcerated at a federal maximum-security prison in Colorado. Saajid Badat, a supporter to Reid, was also sentenced to 13 years in jail after he admitted to conspiring in the plot



September 11, 2001

in this thread are over 90 attempts by Islamofascists to attack our nation.....both the successful and the unsuccessful.

.... compilation of all Islamist terror plots and attacks against the U.S. homeland since 9/11 according to publicly available records. The list does not include activities that are merely linked to terrorism, such as traveling abroad to join a terrorist organization, but each plot requires some threat directed at the U.S. homeland. Additionally, the primary motivation of the terror plot or attack must be a radical Islamist ideology, which supports the use of violence as a means to achieve the long-run objective of imposing Islamic law, i.e., sharia. As this timeline makes clear, the threat of Islamist terror remains real and the U.S. must remain dedicated to defeating terrorism at home and abroad."
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

 

[Campbell]

Obama: "...no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland. "
The Obama/Clinton Plan? Bring in thousands of unvetted Muslims from the cauldrons of terrorism


"But...the oddity is that, while settling in the West, many of these refugees begin to develop a hatred for their new home...and plan to take revenge on it with only its final destruction as the fitting punishment.
Even less understandable, those Muslims who settle and assimilate often have children, brought up in the West, yet identify as opposition to it, and desire its annihilation."
Scruton



August 4, 2004
10. Pakistani Diplomat Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain were charged with plotting to purchase a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. With the help of an informant, the FBI set up a sting to catch Mohammad Hossain in a fake terrorist conspiracy. The informant offered details of a fake terrorist plot, claiming that he needed the missiles to murder a Pakistani diplomat in New York City. An investigation by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local police contributed to the arrest. Aref and Hossain were found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to conceal material support for terrorism and were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

August 3, 2004
9. 'Black Day of Terror'
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Eight members of a terrorist cell led by Dhiren Barot were arrested for plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions in New York, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J. The plots included what the conspirators called a “memorable black day of terror” that would have included detonating a dirty bomb. A July 2004 police raid on Barot’s house in Pakistan yielded a number of incriminating files on a laptop computer, including instructions for building car bombs. Barot pleaded guilty and was convicted in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to commit mass murder and sentenced to 40 years. His seven co-conspirators were sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to 26 years on related charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.

November 28, 2003
8. Ohio Shopping Mall Bombing Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Nuradin M. Abdi, a Somali citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and charged in a plot to bomb a local shopping mall. Abdi was an associate of convicted terrorists Christopher Paul and Iyman Faris and admitted to conspiring with the two to provide material support to terrorists. Abdi has since pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, one of the four counts for which he was indicted. He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in jail per the terms of a plea agreement. After being released from prison, Abdi was deported to his home country of Somalia in 2012.

June 27, 2003
7. Virginia Jihad Network
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Eleven men were arrested in Alexandria, Va., for weapons counts and for violating the U.S. Neutrality Acts. Four of the 11 men pleaded guilty. Upon further investigation, the remaining seven were indicted on additional charges of conspiring to support terrorist organizations. They were found to have connections with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a terrorist organization that targets the Indian government. The authorities stated that the Virginia men had used paintball games to train and prepare for battle. The group had also acquired surveillance and night vision equipment and wireless video cameras.

June 8, 2003
6. Bush Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen of Jordanian descent, was arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges that he conspired to kill President George W. Bush, hijack airplanes, and provide support to al-Qaeda. He was arrested while attending Medina University in Saudi Arabia, where he had joined an al-Qaeda cell. His plans, according to authorities, were to kill President Bush and then establish an al-Qaeda cell in the United States, with himself as the head. He was sentenced to life in prison and is currently being held in the supermax security prison in Florence, Colorado.

March 28, 2003
5. Father, Son Assist al-Qaeda
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani citizen with permanent residency status in the U.S., was arrested in March 2003 and charged with five counts of providing material and financial support to al-Qaeda. Uzair attempted to help another Pakistani, Majid Khan, an al-Qaeda operative, gain access to the United States via immigration fraud. Uzair was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Saifullah Paracha, Uzair’s father, a 67-year-old citizen of Pakistan and resident alien of the U.S., is being held at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. He is believed to have had close ties to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and Mohammed’s nephew Ammar al-Baluchi. Saifullah is said to have used his international business connections to help al-Qaeda procure chemical and biological explosives and assist in their shipment to the U.S.

March 1, 2003
4.Brooklyn Bridge Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Iyman Faris, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kashmir, was arrested for conspiring to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge. He devised the plot after meetings with al-Qaeda leadership, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The New York City Police Department learned of the plot, and Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaeda. He was later sentenced in federal district court to 20 years in prison, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement.


September 14, 2002
3. Lackawanna Six
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
When the FBI arrested Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Mukhtar al-Bakri in upstate New York, the press dubbed them the “Lackawanna Six.” Five of the six had been born and raised in Lackawanna, N.Y., and all six are American citizens of Yemeni descent. They had stated that they were going to Pakistan to attend a religious camp, but attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan instead. The six men pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing support to al-Qaeda. All the men have served their jail sentences and are now living freely in western New York.

May 8, 2002
2. Padilla, al-Qaeda Conspiracy
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
U.S. officials arrested Jose Padilla in May 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as he returned to the United States from Pakistan, where he met with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and received al-Qaeda training and instructions. Upon his arrest, he was initially charged as an enemy combatant, and for planning to use a dirty bomb (an explosive laced with radioactive material). Along with Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted in August 2007 of terrorism conspiracy and material support. Padilla was found guilty by a civilian jury after a three-month trial, and he was later sentenced to 21 years in prison.


December 22, 2001
1. Shoe Bomber
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden who trained in Afghanistan, Richard Reid, hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami on which he attempted to light the fuse with a match. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended aboard the plane by passengers and flight attendants. A U.S. federal court sentenced him to life in prison, and he is currently incarcerated at a federal maximum-security prison in Colorado. Saajid Badat, a supporter to Reid, was also sentenced to 13 years in jail after he admitted to conspiring in the plot



September 11, 2001

in this thread are over 90 attempts by Islamofascists to attack our nation.....both the successful and the unsuccessful.

.... compilation of all Islamist terror plots and attacks against the U.S. homeland since 9/11 according to publicly available records. The list does not include activities that are merely linked to terrorism, such as traveling abroad to join a terrorist organization, but each plot requires some threat directed at the U.S. homeland. Additionally, the primary motivation of the terror plot or attack must be a radical Islamist ideology, which supports the use of violence as a means to achieve the long-run objective of imposing Islamic law, i.e., sharia. As this timeline makes clear, the threat of Islamist terror remains real and the U.S. must remain dedicated to defeating terrorism at home and abroad."
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

Are you absolutely nuts or does it just appear that way?

Miraculous that the people of the United States elected Obama.................TWICE!



I see that the Republicans were about as good at that as they are anything else they try to do!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Obama: "...no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland. "
The Obama/Clinton Plan? Bring in thousands of unvetted Muslims from the cauldrons of terrorism


"But...the oddity is that, while settling in the West, many of these refugees begin to develop a hatred for their new home...and plan to take revenge on it with only its final destruction as the fitting punishment.
Even less understandable, those Muslims who settle and assimilate often have children, brought up in the West, yet identify as opposition to it, and desire its annihilation."
Scruton



August 4, 2004
10. Pakistani Diplomat Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain were charged with plotting to purchase a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. With the help of an informant, the FBI set up a sting to catch Mohammad Hossain in a fake terrorist conspiracy. The informant offered details of a fake terrorist plot, claiming that he needed the missiles to murder a Pakistani diplomat in New York City. An investigation by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local police contributed to the arrest. Aref and Hossain were found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to conceal material support for terrorism and were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

August 3, 2004
9. 'Black Day of Terror'
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Eight members of a terrorist cell led by Dhiren Barot were arrested for plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions in New York, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J. The plots included what the conspirators called a “memorable black day of terror” that would have included detonating a dirty bomb. A July 2004 police raid on Barot’s house in Pakistan yielded a number of incriminating files on a laptop computer, including instructions for building car bombs. Barot pleaded guilty and was convicted in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to commit mass murder and sentenced to 40 years. His seven co-conspirators were sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to 26 years on related charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion.

November 28, 2003
8. Ohio Shopping Mall Bombing Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Nuradin M. Abdi, a Somali citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested and charged in a plot to bomb a local shopping mall. Abdi was an associate of convicted terrorists Christopher Paul and Iyman Faris and admitted to conspiring with the two to provide material support to terrorists. Abdi has since pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, one of the four counts for which he was indicted. He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in jail per the terms of a plea agreement. After being released from prison, Abdi was deported to his home country of Somalia in 2012.

June 27, 2003
7. Virginia Jihad Network
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Eleven men were arrested in Alexandria, Va., for weapons counts and for violating the U.S. Neutrality Acts. Four of the 11 men pleaded guilty. Upon further investigation, the remaining seven were indicted on additional charges of conspiring to support terrorist organizations. They were found to have connections with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a terrorist organization that targets the Indian government. The authorities stated that the Virginia men had used paintball games to train and prepare for battle. The group had also acquired surveillance and night vision equipment and wireless video cameras.

June 8, 2003
6. Bush Assassination Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen of Jordanian descent, was arrested in Saudi Arabia on charges that he conspired to kill President George W. Bush, hijack airplanes, and provide support to al-Qaeda. He was arrested while attending Medina University in Saudi Arabia, where he had joined an al-Qaeda cell. His plans, according to authorities, were to kill President Bush and then establish an al-Qaeda cell in the United States, with himself as the head. He was sentenced to life in prison and is currently being held in the supermax security prison in Florence, Colorado.

March 28, 2003
5. Father, Son Assist al-Qaeda
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani citizen with permanent residency status in the U.S., was arrested in March 2003 and charged with five counts of providing material and financial support to al-Qaeda. Uzair attempted to help another Pakistani, Majid Khan, an al-Qaeda operative, gain access to the United States via immigration fraud. Uzair was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Saifullah Paracha, Uzair’s father, a 67-year-old citizen of Pakistan and resident alien of the U.S., is being held at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. He is believed to have had close ties to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and Mohammed’s nephew Ammar al-Baluchi. Saifullah is said to have used his international business connections to help al-Qaeda procure chemical and biological explosives and assist in their shipment to the U.S.

March 1, 2003
4.Brooklyn Bridge Plot
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
Iyman Faris, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kashmir, was arrested for conspiring to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge. He devised the plot after meetings with al-Qaeda leadership, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The New York City Police Department learned of the plot, and Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaeda. He was later sentenced in federal district court to 20 years in prison, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement.


September 14, 2002
3. Lackawanna Six
Plot foiled, terrorists apprehended
When the FBI arrested Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Mukhtar al-Bakri in upstate New York, the press dubbed them the “Lackawanna Six.” Five of the six had been born and raised in Lackawanna, N.Y., and all six are American citizens of Yemeni descent. They had stated that they were going to Pakistan to attend a religious camp, but attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan instead. The six men pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing support to al-Qaeda. All the men have served their jail sentences and are now living freely in western New York.

May 8, 2002
2. Padilla, al-Qaeda Conspiracy
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
U.S. officials arrested Jose Padilla in May 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as he returned to the United States from Pakistan, where he met with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and received al-Qaeda training and instructions. Upon his arrest, he was initially charged as an enemy combatant, and for planning to use a dirty bomb (an explosive laced with radioactive material). Along with Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi were convicted in August 2007 of terrorism conspiracy and material support. Padilla was found guilty by a civilian jury after a three-month trial, and he was later sentenced to 21 years in prison.


December 22, 2001
1. Shoe Bomber
Plot foiled, terrorist apprehended
A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden who trained in Afghanistan, Richard Reid, hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami on which he attempted to light the fuse with a match. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended aboard the plane by passengers and flight attendants. A U.S. federal court sentenced him to life in prison, and he is currently incarcerated at a federal maximum-security prison in Colorado. Saajid Badat, a supporter to Reid, was also sentenced to 13 years in jail after he admitted to conspiring in the plot



September 11, 2001

in this thread are over 90 attempts by Islamofascists to attack our nation.....both the successful and the unsuccessful.

.... compilation of all Islamist terror plots and attacks against the U.S. homeland since 9/11 according to publicly available records. The list does not include activities that are merely linked to terrorism, such as traveling abroad to join a terrorist organization, but each plot requires some threat directed at the U.S. homeland. Additionally, the primary motivation of the terror plot or attack must be a radical Islamist ideology, which supports the use of violence as a means to achieve the long-run objective of imposing Islamic law, i.e., sharia. As this timeline makes clear, the threat of Islamist terror remains real and the U.S. must remain dedicated to defeating terrorism at home and abroad."
Obama’s Terrorism Claim Hides an Inconvenient Truth

Are you absolutely nuts or does it just appear that way?

Miraculous that the people of the United States elected Obama.................TWICE!



I see that the Republicans were about as good at that as they are anything else they try to do!

Why would you cheer the abominable mistake that Americans made twice???

This is the result of those two elections:

....the slowest of economic recovery in American history, ObamaCare, the creation of ISIS, a nuclear Iran, a happy and well-fed Nidal Hasan....

And this:
His presidency will end with Democrats in possession of 11 fewer Senate seats (depending on how you count), more than 60 fewer House seats, at least 14 fewer governorships and more than 900 fewer seats in state legislatures than when it began. That’s a staggering toll."http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/o...est&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0


What the heck are you proud of???????





Can you calculate how much blood and treasure we could have saved if Obama had been a one-term President?

 

[HenryBHough]

Let us assume that Bush did get a warning.

Now we know that liberal Democrat President Rooseveldt got plenty of warning that Japan was going to destroy Pearl Harbor. Yet he choose to ignore that. And.....(drum roll) you aren't pissed off about that so why the sudden change of heart? Oh wait, Bush wasn't a Democrat? Yeah, that would 'splain it.