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2010-05-05 Home Front: WoT

'I was expecting you. Are you NYPD or FBI?'

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-05 11:44|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Gibbs blamed the airline but emphasized a more positive bottom line: U.S. authorities did get Shahzad on the no-fly list and he never took off.

Did anyone here honestly believe Gibbsy was going to blame Incompetano or another Administration official for this?

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-05 11:51|| 2010-05-05 11:51|| Front Page Top

#2 A little bit of profiling might have helped.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-05 11:53|| 2010-05-05 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 And Attorney General Eric Holder said he 'was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him'.

...permitting him to escape, now that's another matter.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-05 11:55|| 2010-05-05 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I keep seeing conflicting reports that Faisal was grabbed before the plane pushed back from the gate. This says the plane was on the runway. Anyone know?

Posted by Beavis 2010-05-05 11:57|| 2010-05-05 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Somehow the Keystone Cops come to mind.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-05 11:57|| 2010-05-05 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Beavis,
This from the Times of London
Once all the passengers were on board the plane, and 30 minutes before it was due to depart, the final passenger manifest was sent to the National Targeting Centre, operated by Customs and Border Protection, as was routine.

At 11pm (local time) analysts discovered that Mr. Shahzad was on the no-fly list and had just boarded a plane. They sounded the alarm, and minutes later, with the jet still at the gate, agents came on board and took Mr Shahzad into custody, officials said.
This posting from Ben Smith is when the plane was later turned back and the other two (who were subsequently released) were taken into custody

Posted by tipper 2010-05-05 12:48|| 2010-05-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 And Attorney General Eric Holder said he 'was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him'.

LYING BASTARD.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-05-05 14:19|| 2010-05-05 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice spin, Holder. Whether you feared it or not, you in fact did lose him. It was only by seredipity that someone from customs found him for you.

Posted by Mike N. 2010-05-05 14:55|| 2010-05-05 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually it might have been better if the plane took off and he was apprehended in Dubai or Pakistan.

For one thing we would know more about his financial and other associates by the time he was returned to our custody.

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-05 15:25|| 2010-05-05 15:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Yesterday NPR aired a voice recording of the tower informing the flight to immediately return to the gate by taking the next available left taxiway.

Posted by Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 2010-05-05 17:12|| 2010-05-05 17:12|| Front Page Top

#11 And this doesn't even address the crux of the matter.

It was pure luck on our part that the bomb didn't explode.

No one stopping him from flipping the switch = FAIL

Posted by Parabellum 2010-05-05 18:09|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-05-05 18:09|| Front Page Top

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