NYC terror plot: FBI fears Madrid-style attack on subways, planning more raids
posted at 7:23 pm on September 16, 2009 by Allahpundit
I was thinking today that this story is an object lesson in how utterly useless the color-coded terror warning system is. Major plot, Al Qaeda cell, hundreds of FBI agents scrambling, no arrests made or bomb materials yet found, and more raids on the way. If this isn’t a code red, nothing is.
Note well: So convinced were the feds that these guys are dangerous that they had their hostage team in the city, ready for action in case the raids turned ugly.
The FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team arrived in New York in anticipation of the offensive to thwart a Denver-based terror cell with ties to Al Qaeda, police sources told the Daily News.
Another source said an earlier raid uncovered nine backpacks and cell phones, raising memories of the March 2004 bombings in Madrid…
Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado man who triggered a rash of Queens raids Monday, was identified through e-mail, wire taps and a confidential informant as part of the plot, the source said…
Zazi was stopped at the George Washington Bridge on his way into the city, sources told The News. Authorities later seized his rental car from a Queens street, sources said.
In the car, sources said the feds found documents and papers about bomb-making and bombs.
The Daily News claims the cell is comprised of five men but I don’t know how that squares with the detail about nine backpacks. In fact, if you believe ABC News, it was actually 14 backpacks that were found. Remember: It only took four to kill 52 people in the London bombings of 2005. Exit question: Do they really not have enough to arrest Zazi? E-mails and wiretaps and an informant and bomb-making instructions and a cross-country drive to NYC: Seems like there’s a conspiracy and an overt act in there somewhere. Maybe they let him go in hopes that he’ll do something stupid like contacting other members of the cell, against whom the evidence might momentarily be weak. If you want to see him wearing a sh*t-eating grin and denying everything, follow the ABC link and watch the embedded video.
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Please, your worries are enough for your own family. You’ll be fine. Please, Trust. He’s going to be fine. And, know that we are here for you no matter what, okay?
Key West Reader on September 16, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Your weak pathetic president is done if there is another attack.
elduende on September 16, 2009 at 8:24 PM
So you’re racially profiling? Tsk tsk.
angryed on September 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM
religiously
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Liars like you don’t deserve any more than that, ass wipe.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM
ill eye a white muslim with suspicion just as much a purple muslim
or a halvesy
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Whoa, hold your horses, slow down. This guy needs to be freed immediately! If we start wire tapping terror suspects… the terrorists have won? I mean, what’s to stop these crazy teabagging waterboarders from wiretapping Aunt Ethel? You know they will. They’re conservative, they can’t help themselves. Wire taps cannot be used!
Free
Mumia, er, Zazi!Abby Adams on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
lol! sweet. remind me to write up the time I was on the 7 train about 2003 and I followed a suspicious Salafist he spotted me and ran for it. Not now.
elduende on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Job applicants ‘We’re terrorists and are here illegally and we want to plant bombs in the NYC transit system in order to kill thousands of innocent civilians and do a billion dollars worth of property damage.”
ACORN official. “No problem. We can set you up with housing references and contacts but you can’t use the word ‘terrorist’. How about ‘infrastructure uninstaller’?
MaiDee on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
“This terrible tragedy has hit those injured Americans without health insurance the hardest. This man-caused disaster just further illustrates the dire need for universal health care because these man-caused disasters can occur repeatedly, at any time, especially because of . . . er, despite our best efforts on national security.” – Rahm Emanuel
OK, so maybe tasteless . . .
Firefly_76 on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
When it comes to America, I don’t know or care anything about loyalty, patriotism or liberty. I am just an elitist snob who sneers down my nose at people who oppose my cheap leftist beliefs.
— Blue Bloodless
Yes. We know.
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM
i hopped on the C last year
and this scary lookin black muslim man
his eyes looked like he was going to kill
he began digging through a bag with red and black wires coming out of it
i was like OMGGGGGGG
then i saw he put on headphones, and they were REALLY old headphones with red and black wires. who knows.
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Yep. I believe that light should be shined on powerful, secret orgabiztions who have the right to kill and whose actions shape perception of our nation and effect everything from global strategic consideratiosn to how a cabbie treats me in Athens.
I don’t believe that the military needs hundreds of billions of dollars in toys when they’re designed to fight a war that never happened and whose times have passed. We have enough jets too fragile to fly to last a long, long time.
And I do believe that we, as the United States of America, have to answer to a higher standard, that we have to live uop to our laws and Constitution and the treaties we’ve signed. If you want to be the kind of country Putin’s Russia has become,go for it. I’d actually like to be free, and if I have to take a miniscule extra portion of uncertainty to be free, that’s the risk Americans have always taken. And, to be sure, I think the odds are better if you do it my way.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Not really. He will declare martial law. For our own safety guns would be confiscated. And to make sure no rumors are spread, he will temporarily takeover all TV and radio stations as well as direct Verizon, Comcast, AOL, etc to disable internet connections.
Remember, never let a good crisis go to waster. And the sad part it morons like the Blew Boys would think it’s a great idea.
angryed on September 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
By far the biggest terrorist threat to this nation is in the white house and justice department!!
Marco on September 16, 2009 at 8:31 PM
I thanked President Bush for keeping us safe after 9-11, I continue and thank President Obama for keeping us safe since his inauguration.
Everyone should hope it remains thusly.
Abby Adams on September 16, 2009 at 8:34 PM
lol! Stay safe BB.
elduende on September 16, 2009 at 8:34 PM
So when you raciall profile to save your own ass it’s OK. But when the TSA does it or cops do it on the freeway, then it’s an injustice.
angryed on September 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
you too
watch your back
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Dear Reader: Thanks. God helps. But humor also helps. And perhaps you have been misreading me. So let me introduce myself:
I’m the sweetest little thing in the whole wide world!
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
You’re such a pathetic, lying POS.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Yes. You and your ilk are perfectly happy to let US security suffer in order to satisfy your emotional problems. We understand that you don’t care about protecting America, only about how cabbies in Athens treat you. You are scum, and your side is weakening this nation on purpose.
Don’t ever try and claim that you, or your moron America-hating Precedent, care about national security. We know that you don’t. Everyone knows that you don’t.
progressoverpeace on September 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM
What did you thank B. Hussein for exactly?
Promising to close Gitmo?
Promising to prosecute CIA agents?
Cutting $60B of funding from the military?
angryed on September 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Good thing I wasn’t there. I’d have wiped that sh*t eating grin right off his sh*t eating face.
Red Cloud on September 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Yeah, I don’t think so. If there is another attack his presidency is over way before he can pick up a pen to sign any declarations. Although, I do admit it would be amusing to see him read a declaration that he will be seizing 380 million firearms. LOL!
elduende on September 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I don’t trust the lack of news on this, It’s reading as if the Feds were caught unaware and are playing catchup.
bloviator on September 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Have we been hit again? No.
That’s the metric.
Abby Adams on September 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Don’t take the eye off the ball.
7 Percent Solution duly noted Rosh Hashana.
if ANYTHING happens to our America, we will come to our own defense. Many are suffering, many are opposed. We are under attack. We will be fine. This Nation is and Inspiration for all. Let us comfort one another. We will be fine. We will prevail.
And, by typing those words, I’m a racist. Come and git me, Congress. I will tell you tales of how many children we have cared for as Foster Parents. Come and git me.
/grrrrrrr
Key West Reader on September 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Mirandizing foreign detainees. That’s a real classic in policy harmful to America. Gotta make sure those terrorists know that they have the right to remain silent (though they don’t).
progressoverpeace on September 16, 2009 at 8:38 PM
There is no way to stop it! One IED in a trash can and boom!
xler8bmw on September 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Because I’m an American, I have the right to avoid and associate with whomever I want for any reason I want, including stupid, unjust, unethical, and morally wrong reasons.
And, because I’m an American, I want to make sure that law enforcement officers are not stopping, nor investigating, nor arresting people for stupid, unjust, unethical, and morally wrong reasons.
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 8:40 PM
And you’re a frightened little punk, who’d give up your rights as an American to have Big Brother to hold your hand when you get afraid.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Yeah. National security. Like Bush — worst terrorist attack in American history, screws up Afghanistan in a huge way, wastes thousands of live and hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq.
Heck of a job, Bushie.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Who is leaking all of this to the press? You have a guy being hunted who is watching tv to learn where they are looking for him? That’s just nuts.
This country is apparently too stupid to defend itself.
crosspatch on September 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Funny, I had the same thought. I hope we’re both wrong.
Fletch54 on September 16, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Bleeds Blue is how Obama got elect\ted and how Obama will be defeated.
No point arguing, on moral grounds, with someone who is amoral.
ORconservative on September 16, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Ah, to be AP for just 30 seconds. No time to ponder God’s existence or pick up the phone to call Meghan, but plenty of time to dump this turd off of HA.
Fletch54 on September 16, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Two words to destroy your rant bleeder,Bill Clinton.
McBride on September 16, 2009 at 8:47 PM
This is both a mis-characterization of the policy and an interesting point. If you have a war where it’s very hard to tell your adversaries form more or less neutral civilians, and it’s essentially a war that never ends, don;t you have some obligaton to try to find out which ones are actually terorists rather acceptiong the sentancing of innocent people to life in prison? It’s not like Bush didn’t let some people go after investigation and it’s not like Obama has opened the prison gates.
There needs to be a process and, in this kind of war, perceptions are more important than ever. In Germany, every kid joined the Wehrmacht. In Afghanistan, or Indonesia, or Detroit, it’s a one-on-one battle that turns on whether some hormone-addled 19-year-old thinks we’re evil enough to blow himslef up over. If we don’t do demonstrably evil things — like lock up innocent people for the rest of their lives — it’s easier to win that fight.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Heh, first you say I’m angry, then you say I’m frightened.
Everyone knows you libturd ass wipes are major projectors.
Yeah, I’m angry. So angry that I’d revel in seeing you actually bleed yourself blue.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Couldn’t agree more. It’s surreal how much is being reported about a very sensitive ongoing operation. I keep waiting for a story to end with someone being arrested and the cell broken up. This whole story stinketh.
Weight of Glory on September 16, 2009 at 8:51 PM
I was just going to ask how they feel about that proceedure right about now
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on September 16, 2009 at 8:52 PM
During Bush’s terms they would never report on the details like they are now partly because they didn’t want the public to know how the President is protecting the nation.
I think it’s being leaked to make Obama look like he’s doing the same.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Meanwhile, back at the ranch: Osama Obama’s Secretary of “Defense” says we can expect a threat from the Chicoms, who are building up their attack weaponry….
He seems especially worried about the Chinese threat to the Internet. Guess he’s afraid all the shills praising the Chicago Jesus might not be able to get out on the Interwebs.
ACORN, Joe Wilson, possible terrorist activities in NYC, and now Red China — what a week!
D’you suppose these stories are linked together in some way?
MrScribbler on September 16, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Yep. One causes the other. You mask your sniveling inner self with a false braggadacio, just as you mask the fear that everything you believe is wrong (probably not, just a lot of it) with a brutish demand that everybody else follow your lead. You’d be a bully, but you haven’t got the b**ls.
Sleep tight. And don’t worry about that Somali behind the counter at the 7-11. Or the Hawaiian in the White House.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Heh. I’m 5’1 and weigh about 100 lbs. And you’re scared of me.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Praying everyday since this broke that this doesn’t end as badly as I fear.
God be with you all.
SuperCool on September 16, 2009 at 8:57 PM
That’s what I was thinking, in regards to Bush. I do remember some vague stories of “plots” and “chatter”; But never the kind of details of where raids took place, what’s being looked for, who they may be associated with, and what type of attack is being attempted. The only thing that I can think of that even remotely feels like this one, is when all those failed car bomb attacks in England took place. But even in those situations, I don’t think raids were reported without arrests. This is really strange.
Weight of Glory on September 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Ass wipe. Forgot to tell you what you are in my last post.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
You know, if we weren’t still admitting Muslims into the country, we wouldn’t have to worry about things like this as much. Muslim terrorist are only a threat if they’re in the country.
End Muslim immigration. Shut down mosques, madrassas that promote Jihad/sharia, and deport all Muslim non-Citizens. Or we can keep on as we’re doing and live in constant fear of the next big attack. Because that’s the kind of society we’re going to have with any sizable Muslim minority.
2Brave2Bscared on September 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
And you’re scared of everything, girlfriend. Relax — Obama’s got your back. Even yours.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
So really, what we’re seeing now is theatre. Exploiting a dangerous situation to create theatre.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM
I think about bombs every time I get on the subway. I try to avoid the rush hour crush but sometimes I can’t help it. I’m all crammed in on the uptown F looking around for suspicious looking Muskies with beads of sweat on their foreheads, clenched fists, inappropriate layers of clothing etc. You betcha I racially profile. I cannot control my survival instinct even if I wanted to. Liberals who say they don’t do are are just bare faced liars. Hell I’m betting that Muslims do it too (the ones who don’t want to die quite just yet anyway).
Sometimes I think I’m going crazy with my thoughts on the subway. If I stand holding the overhead pole, I worry that my arm will be blown off in the event of a blast. So I try to keep my limbs as close to my side as possible. I think I’d only feel 100% safe if I was stood behind Michael Moore.
Every subway ride, I wonder what it would be like and I imagine the flash and the bang and the smell and the turmoil. I’ve had these thoughts ever since the London bombings. Rest assured, if it happens and I survive it, I’m getting some Mohammed bombturban shirts made which I’m going to wear prominently every day. I’m also going to get thousands of bombturban stickers printed which I’ll be sticking on every freaking surface I pass in the city until I decide I’ve made my point.
Sharke on September 16, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Clinton allowed this nation to be attacked time and time again without doing anything in response. That was pathetic and we all said so. The only time he could find the guts to fight was on the wrong side in a war that we had no business being in, since it was Europe’s problem. But I supported the mission, anyway – even though the planning was retarded.
Bush came into office and jacked up the military from the start. He immediately concentrated on missile defense, which was misdirected though necessary and it showed that Bush was serious about national security from the start. Then 9/11 happened and we changed our whole defense stance to take reality into account (which had been illegal before 9/11, thanks to moron libs).
Now, your America-hating Precedent is trying to take everything back to 9/10. And worse, he’s on the offensive against those who defend us. The idiot wanted to hold show trials for the whole Bush administration, for pouring water over the faces of poor terrorists (who you people always cry for … Americans, not so much). You people have been on the attack against America since you got in. Don’t hide from it. We all know about it and you know that it’s just your nature. Your traitorous Precedent has slapped every American ally in the face while he cozies up to every marxist, lunatic dictator around. He hates America and has made it plain. And he is busy taking our defenses apart.
Tell me, bleeds, how much information do you expect to get out of a detainee who now gets fifth amendment rights (that he does not have – you do understand that, right?)? Those coffee and donut sessions are going to be so effective …
You guys have made it clear that protecting our nation is not on your list of priorities. Quite the opposite. We’re all tired of your pathetic lies.
Now, run along and support the slimebag Zelaya’s attempted coup. That’s another great position of the treasonous left and your retarded Precedent …
progressoverpeace on September 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM
I’m with you 100%. End Muslim immigration and deport all non-citizen Muslims.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM
I don’t know what it is yet. Only to note that the approach is definitely different.
Weight of Glory on September 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Uh when you learn to write English, post something.
Moronic ass wipe.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:01 PM
so i can bench press you! :D
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Yes, it is different. With the media douchebags at the helm to prop up the Traitor-in-chief, in an attempt to make it appear that he’s doing his job.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM
You have no idea what you’re talking about. None. The US has fought many wars without mirandizing any foreigner on foreign soil. You people are just stark, raving loons.
progressoverpeace on September 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Lying, arrogant ones, too.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:08 PM
This story is BS
“In the car, sources said the feds found documents and papers about bomb-making and bombs.”
Tuesday night Fox Denver interviews Zazi at his home near Denver…
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-raid-colo-connection-091509,0,5279698.story
You don’t get pulled over with bombs and eat dinner with your dad the next night.
BS.
Ed Graef on September 16, 2009 at 9:08 PM
In Obamaland you do.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Something may be off or maybe not. BUT keep this in mind the JTTF normally works quietly. There are reports the NYPD blew the investigation when they (the NYPD) was given a picture of the guy they were following and they showed it to an Imam and he recognized the guy and told his family the FBI was looking for him. The guy fled.
Whether this was a mistake or deliberate to smoke this guy out who knows? I do remember there were JTTF raids in Chicago a few months ago where they arrested people and took chemicals away etc etc. We still don’t know what went down in Chicago. That is the way they normally operate up until the point when they decide to publicize it.
The one thing that made the hair on my neck stand was that the first thing they did after Sunday’s raids was inform the Congressional leadership (such as it is). That is something that I’d never heard happen before.
So is something off now? maybe. Was it a blown operation or deliberate who knows? Is this a reflection of Obama’s policies beginning to wear down the JTTF’s capabilities? Maybe. Was it Obama’s incompetence? who knows? Is this serious? Definitely.
elduende on September 16, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Can’t forget ‘despicable’.
Hey Bleeds, you had better run over to the top thread and explain how The Precedent screwing Europe over on missile defense is a sign that the left is worried about our security. Maybe you’ll convince someone there …
progressoverpeace on September 16, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Good points. I’ll just keep those guys in my prayers tonight for safety and success. Thanks for the info, elduende.
Weight of Glory on September 16, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Because they were known combatants captured on a clear field of battle in a war with a finite conclusion. This is, as they say, a different kind of war. And the use of the phrase “mirandizing” shows how poorly you understand things, because no one is giving them a talk before they’re interrogated, or claiming that they have constiturional rights on foreign soil. You still get weeks and weeks to beat the truth out of them, you just can’t hold them forever and ever, after it starts to look like you might have the wrong guy. Why, it’s something akin to justice!
More than that, I hope. But who’d want to actually do that?
Actually, the Bush administration was a PR powerhouse when it came to terrorist-related activites, even when they had to grossly exaggerate the conspiracies of the people involeved to get headlines, or use bring us back up to coed red to get a political opponent off the front page.
The Obama Administration has been very hands off. Not that this has not become front page news yet, which it would surely be if the President felt like trooting out an FBI Director or Attorney General to make it so.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 9:16 PM
thats just one hand!
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 9:17 PM
What the hell is “trooting”, ass wipe?
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM
A Spanish attitude toward the Muslim murderers results in a similar style of terrorism. How fitting a result for our Dear Leader’s cowardly stance.
Dark-Star on September 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM
That’s nothing. I can lift a 100 pounds without even using my hands.
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 9:25 PM
That’s nothing. I can lift a 100 pounds without even using my hands.
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 9:25 PM
mental!
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Yeah, I never said I could type. I’m working on it.
“Trotting,” by the way. I think most people with an IQ over 80 could have worked it out from the context, but I’m always happy to explain things slowly and repeatedly to you.
Bleeds Blue on September 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM
MaiDee on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
or “demolition specialist”- Great post! Any chance this is a Rahmbo “crisis diversion” from the Acorn debacle????
huskerdiva on September 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM
You little dog!
Loxodonta on September 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM
And why isn’t the FBI being called a bunch of Islamophobic, bigoted, racial-profiling promoters of terrorism by oppressing poor Muslims of color in Obama’s America?
How come that language vanishes when the threat scares the wee wee out of the liberals?
Suddenly they all fall silent?
No political advantage if you’re dead, eh?
profitsbeard on September 16, 2009 at 9:39 PM
The rest of your gobbledygook is equally illiterate.
atheling on September 16, 2009 at 9:42 PM
“Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
—Margot Asquith
Dark-Star on September 16, 2009 at 9:44 PM
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Key West Reader on September 16, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Thank you so much. BTW: milhusband is fine and getting ready for the marathon on Saturday.
milwife88 on September 16, 2009 at 9:55 PM
LOL! Then how can you complain about the alleged outing of Valerie Plame? After all, she worked for the same “orgabiztion”.
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM
All conceived, trained for, and planned in the 8 months after Chimpy took office.
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Arthur Koestler’s entire book “Dialogue With Death” , and later “Darkness At Noon“, was the result of just such a concentration.
He was expecting a firing squad.
It miraculously never came.
He, thereafter, helped change our history with the communists thanks to that fateful reprieve.
An acute-minded, staunchly pro-liberty thinker whose polemical defenses of the West are still very vital, especially “Bricks To Babel“.
profitsbeard on September 16, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Does that include all of the “international laws” that authorized the use of military force to enforce UN Resolutions against Iraq?
Sorry, kid, you make it too easy.
Next?
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Ride them every single day, multiple times. Sooner or later the sensory overload that is NYC becomes a blur, and you either pass out or bring something to read.
ernesto on September 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM
As a former island resident, I can assure you that O’bama’s ancestors have no Hawaiian blood. However, your raciscm is duly noted. Thanks for playing, and…
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Total BS…former BuschCo terror assistant czar Jack Goldsmith, who briefly became a hero to you college kids when he left the Bush Whitehouse, said in a 2007 speech at Boston College that the evil Chimpy had in fact under-reported the terror threats.
Once again, please getalife.
Del Dolemonte on September 16, 2009 at 10:09 PM
And if you ask me the CIA needs to be investigated!
BobAnthony on September 16, 2009 at 10:10 PM
why do you insist on lying about me, sack o’ sh!t?
blatantblue on September 16, 2009 at 10:23 PM
You crack me up, BB. Seriously. This is so priceless.
You’re why I quit the Donks.
Bruno Strozek on September 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM
5 Men and 9 Backpacks can make sense, they could just leave them near a seat or a corner and then move on with another.
As if them raising the price of the Subway wasn’t enough.
Rbastid on September 16, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Let’s see. New York City, High Holidays, lots of Jews…
Nah, Nothing here. Move on.
J.J. Sefton on September 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I thought the same thing. Obama is probably publicizing this to make him look like a hero to improve his sagging public opinion poll numbers.
Colorado Anne on September 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Very interesting. Today on KOA (am radio station in Denver) they ran a public service type commercial saying if you see suspicious activity around public water sources, etc. please make sure you contact the authorities. I thought it was odd, don’t ever remember hearing a “commercial” like this ran on the radio before.
Colorado Anne on September 16, 2009 at 11:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSeAQ5Xwpo
It has happened in India before ( the emergency). It happens a lot in third world countries.
macncheez on September 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Hey i wonder if
CARTER
CLINTON
the ACLU
Pelozi
Murtha
Kerry
Reid
Shummer
and the rest of the damned communist traitors in congress
I wonder if they all hurried up to get there
before our law enforment then
showing the Islamic terrorist suspects
PHOTOS of the CIA and FBI agents comming to spy on them..
I mean according to the dumb ass traitors
in congress think the muslims terrorists
have more rights than americans do
To KEEP THEIR HEADS ATTACHED..
veteranoutrage on September 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM
I hope they don’t ask these guys any tough questions. I hope they didn’t actually listen in to their conversations. THAT would be inexcusable.
Mojave Mark on September 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM
What’s with these Libtards around here? On one hand they bash the Bush administration for treating terrorists badly/unfairly, and in the same breath praise Ozero for smacking down terrorists and trying to kill Bin Laden?
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s hearing their same BS about Vietnam. Hanoi wouldn’t have been our enemies if we (well, JFK and Johnson actually) hadn’t made them our enemies. But, boy, if anyone dared try to attack America you’d better believe they’d be on the beach with a rifle defending Home and Hearth! Oh yeah!
Truth is, these DU creeps were telling Moscow, Peking, Pyongyang, Hanoi and the rest of their Commie pals, “Hey, don’t worry…we have things under control over here…won’t even have to fire a shot, Comrades!”
Any enemy of the United States is automatically their pals. See them for what they are.
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Looks like this was the real deal, you don’t call in the HRT if it wasn’t serious. Those FISA warrant really did yield something. There only links to AQ is probably from via training manuals found inside. Especially because the article said this: “In the car, sources said the feds found documents and papers about bomb-making and bombs.” Definitely published by AQ.
Zazi will definitely be used to coax the other cell members into contacting him (or other way around). Just arresting him is no use if the rest of the cell is active.
Cr4sh Dummy on September 17, 2009 at 1:32 AM
Meanwhile, on the other hand
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/cia-director-panetta-to-arab-americans-i-need-you.html
macncheez on September 17, 2009 at 1:43 AM
This whole story must be bogus, as I recall Michael Moore shouting “There is no terrorist threat!”
Seriously though, I’m disturbed at how much media coverage this will get if a major attack is prevented, simply because the credit will go to Obama… while dozens of thwarted attacks were downplayed or outright ignored under Bush. The media would just love to have some “good news” to bump The One’s tanking ratings.
RightWinged on September 17, 2009 at 1:44 AM
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