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Charles Bell
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Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the "system worked"
By Michelle Malkin . December 27, 2009
Beginning with her embrace of the impotent euphemism "man-caused disasters"
to the hit job on conservatives and veterans that she was forced to
apologize for, to her assertion that crossing the border illegally "isn't a
crime per se", to her boneheaded claim that 9/11 terrorists came in through
the Canadian border, Ja-No has confirmed time and again that she's not ready
for prime time.
Today, she caps off her horrible year by playing Big Pollyanna in the wake
of the Flight 254. The botched bombing - foiled by a faulty detonator and
brave passengers, not by homeland security bureaucrats or any preemptive
measures by intel officials - shows that the in Ja-No's fantasy world.
If the "system" had "worked," the U.S. consular officials who granted Abdul
Farouk Abdulmutallab a short-term visa last June would have revoked it
immediately upon being informed by his father that he was a Muslim radical
with al Qaeda ties.
If the "system" had "worked," U.S. consular officials would have never
granted Abdulmutallab - a rootless, young, single male - a visa in the first
place in compliance with State Department visa regulation 214(b).
If the "system" had "worked," Abdulmutallab would have been barred from the
U.S. like he had been barred from Britain.
The "system," like Napolitano, was an epic fail.
And as predicted, Napolitano also played the "lone nut" card - dismissing
the Christmas Day jihadist as a single operator not part of "anything
larger" despite his own testimony to the contrary.
She's Obama's biggest joker. And there's no Blame-Bush loophole to weasel
through anymore.
Charles Bell
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> If the "system" had "worked," the U.S. consular officials who granted
> Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab a short-term visa last June would have revoked
> it immediately upon being informed by his father that he was a Muslim
> radical with al Qaeda ties.
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Bomb suspect came from elite family, best schools
(AP)
LAGOS, Nigeria - As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British
International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College
London.
His family home sits in the city of Funtua, in the heart of Nigeria's
Islamic culture. Religion figured into the family's life: His father, Alhaji
Umar Mutallab, who had a successful career in commercial banking, also
joined the board of an Islamic bank - one that avoids the kind of interest
payments banned by the Quran.
<< We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding
the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me,
derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.
Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance,
helplessness and despair.
We will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising
the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe-children not
just in the Middle East, but also in Africa. >> Barack Obama, Sept. 19
2001