Saudis Warned Top Obama Officials About Underwear Bombs in October
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 2, 2010, 5:21 PM
CNN reported on September 30, 2009 that a Saudi bomber from Yemen and Al-Qaeda member tried to kill Saudi Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef with an underwear bomb on August 28, 2009.
Suicide bomber Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri attempted to kill a Saudi prince by detonating explosives hidden in his underwear. His target, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, escaped with minor injuries. (The Telegraph)
Now Newsweek is reporting that the Saudis briefed a top Obama official about the Yemeni underwear bomber attack back in October, via HotAir:
The briefing to Brennan was delivered at the White House by Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s chief counterterrorism official. In late August, Nayef had survived an assassination attempt by an operative dispatched by the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda who was pretending to turn himself in. The operative had tried to kill the Saudi prince by detonating a bomb on his body, but stumbled on his way into the prince’s palace and blew himself up.
Saudi officials initially thought the bomb had been secreted in the operative’s anal cavity. But after investigating the matter more thoroughly, they concluded it had likely been sewn into his underwear, thereby allowing the operative to bypass security checks before his meeting with the prince. A main purpose of Nayef’s briefing for Brennan was to alert U.S. officials to the use of the underwear technique.
U.S. officials now suspect that Nayef’s attempted assassin and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian suspect aboard the Northwest flight, had the same bomb maker in Yemen, intelligence experts tell NEWSWEEK. At the briefing for Brennan, Nayef was concerned because “he didn’t think [U.S. officials] were paying enough attention” to the growing threat from Al Qaeda in Yemen, said a former U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefing.
And, what did the Obama Administration do with this new information?
Nothing.
It looks like Cheney was right. Barack Obama’s policies have made us less safe.
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Franklin commented:
Little o is blaming the CIA.
And anyone else he can to deflect from himself.
Winston commented:
Like Obama cares about the safety of American people? All he cares about is his marxist agenda and changing the American society
Sanmon commented:
He will address the issue after Health Care bill is passed. Nothing to see here folks just board your plane and move along. Don’t get your panties in a wad.
Flyover Sam commented:
What do you mean DHS ignored this intel? Napolitano and her Underwear Gnomes have been extraordinarily diligent searching and seizing the underwear of the teabagging right-wing middle class citizens. It’s DHS’s goal to silence their protests and eliminate these radical extremists from the political scene.
Is there some other kind of terrorist threat DHS doesn’t know about?
Dell commented:
Taking his own “sweet time” with just about everything is going to prove costly very quickly. The natives are getting mighty restless…and even the Democrats (especially the centrist Democrats) are starting to speak out. Many of them have campaigns to endure over the next several months and they know their dithering hero rock star president has become an albatross around their neck.
Playing everything by ear (he obviously has no “plan” for anything) and taking forever and a day to act (or react) is going to be very difficult for the bean counters to justify. And the voters are licking their chops….
NeoKong commented:
We have no Commander in Chief.
We have a disgruntled community activist in the White House.
There is a fundamental difference in how Obama’s and the Bush administration handle security.
If we caught this guy two years ago Dick Cheney would be pulling out his fingernails with a pair of pliers to get him to talk and he would talk. He would be in gitmo and not some civilian jail.
Obama arreststhe guy and gives him some high paid lawyer probably connected to Holder and now no one can touch the guy because he has all the rights of the very people he tried to murder.
Obama can deny it all he wants but he is soft on terror and the terrorists are aware of it most of all.
bg commented:
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re: CNN reported on September 30, 2009 that a Yemeni bomber and Al-Qaeda member tried to kill Saudi Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef with an underwear bomb on August 28, 2009.
uhm, i don’t believe that was an “underwear bomb”..
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Auntie Em commented:
I believe that ‘soft on terror’ is not what is going on here.
Why are we afraid to say “aiding and abetting enemies, both foreign and domestic” ?
That is what it is. The sooner we name it correctly the sooner we rid ourselves of the affirmative action parasite.
Pat the First commented:
The problem is B.O. surrounded himself with a lot of people who are now working about their “paygrade”. It is the “Peter Principle” from top to bottowm. Way too many people, including B.O., who are now working in an area that exceeds their competency.
A good leader hires people who fill in where he is deficient. B.O. seems to just hire from his group of friends. Not comforting to me at all.
reitre05 commented:
And if this doesn’t blow your socks off, CNN reports:
“The U.S. also had intelligence between August and October of this year (2009), extremists in Yemen were talking about operations. Someone known as “the Nigerian” was mentioned, and they had a partial name, Umar Farouk.”
It is also being reported that the Oval Office gave a directive that there was to be no appearance of “profiling” Muslims.
So, his father reported him. Our intel services had two of his three names; the Brits had banned him and revoked his visa, he was on the “big” watch list (you know, the one that Obama has hired the guy that was responsible for it to find out what was wrong with it – talk about setting up a CYA program).
WE KNEW HIS DAMN NAME.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
“And, what did the Obama Administration do with this new information?
Nothing.”
kind of like the NOTHING that the democrat admin and clinton did about the info passed to them about the perfect place to capture bin-ladin in the mid-90′s…
we had 9-ll because of that failure….
NO THING done….AGAIN…
C-CS
shibumi commented:
“It looks like Cheney was right.”
You forgot to add: “Again.”
nobama commented:
Hillary deserves some of the blame she is head of State Dept which should have revoked the muslim terrorists visa when his father reported him.
No Man commented:
Hope and change!
HOPE the murderers CHANGE their minds and let us live.
That works for YOUR typical black man/president-in-training.
No! Actually, the regime hates America and our way of life. The fisters, maoists, sodomites, and black nationalists really want the terrorists to win. No one is this stupid.
Jamest155 commented:
obama worst president in history. I didn’t think anyone could be worse than carter and clinton.
Songtan1 commented:
@#10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Nayef
Ladue Pundit commented:
On Dec. 22, Obama was too busy pushing his HealthScare Plan, which most Americans didn’t want, to pay attention to important security data.
And Hillary, “I AM SECRETARY OF STATE” is directly resposible for not acting on Nov 2009 info brought directly to our embassy regarding the package bomber by his father.
Your Democrat presidential opponents: both incompetent to the point of dangerous.
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