By Mark Sappenfield,Christian Science Monitor
Terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano insisted Sunday that there was no “specific and credible” information to put the alleged attempted bomber of Northwest Flight 253,Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,on the federal “no fly” list.
Yet for the second time in a month,the Obama administration finds itself defending its lack of action against a suspect whose tendencies toward radical Islam had been reported to authorities.
The cases are,of course,different. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,who is the only suspect in the attack that killed 13 people at Fort Hood on Nov. 5,was an American being tracked for corresponding with a known Al Qaeda sympathizer. Colleagues had also raised questions about his increasingly militant beliefs.
Mr. Abdulmutallab,by contrast,came to the attention of authorities only when his father went to the US Embassy in Nigeria and warned officials about his son’s growing radicalization. On Friday,Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted – and failed – to set off a homemade explosive as Flight 253 neared the Detroit airport.
I THINK THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MISSED THE WARNING SIGNS ON PURPOSE.
EITHER THAT OR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CAN'T FIND IT'S OWN ASS WITH BOTH HANDS!!!!