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Home Front: WoT
Al Qaeda: We're Behind Attempted Plane Bombing
2009-12-28
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen.

Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the U.S. system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board the flight in Amsterdam even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist.

In a statement posted on the Internet, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the group, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Yemeni forces, helped by U.S. intelligence, carried out two airstrikes against Al Qaeda operatives in the country this month. The second one was a day before Abdulmutallab attempted to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight as it prepared to land in Detroit.

The group said Abdulmutallab used explosives manufactured by Al Qaeda members.
One would think they'd be embarrassed by that little fact. After all, the vaunted AQ-AP explosives experts were only able to produce a bit of flame, rather than a workmanlike explosion. Even as a work accident it's pretty mortifying.
"He managed to penetrate all devices and modern advanced technology and security checkpoints in international airports bravely without fear of death," the group said in the statement, "relying on God and defying the large myth of American and international intelligence, and exposing how fragile they are, bringing their nose to the ground, and making them regret all what they spent on security technology."
Posted by:Sherry

#4  defying the large myth of American and international intelligence, and exposing how fragile they are, bringing their nose to the ground, and making them regret all what they spent on security technology."

Listen to this. It is a new branch of AQ defining its strategy.
Posted by: gromky   2009-12-28 19:01  

#3  FOX NEWS this AM > REPRESENTATIVE/CONGRESSWOMAN MILLER > MUTALLAB incident is an "ACT OF WAR" AGZ THE USA.

* SAME > AL QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA Group is formally claiming respons for the incident + calling on followers to attack US, WESTERN targets.

* WND > BOMBER WARNS FEDS: MORE ATTACKS IN THE WORKS [planning stages].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-12-28 17:58  

#2  "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S."

Well, I'm just shocked! Hooda thunk it?

/Administration idiots
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-12-28 16:21  

#1  I wonder if they might move to 'sploding in airport areas before boarding to help tide them over. I still suspect the second Nigerian as a test of another run. It could have been a biological dry-run. "Food poisoning". Really?
Posted by: Solomon Glulet1502   2009-12-28 15:58  

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