Breaking: Obama Administration Removed Faisal Shahzad From Terror Surveillance List Before Attack …Update: Faisal Had Contact with Awlaki, the Taliban Chief, and Mumbai Massacre Mastermind
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 6, 2010, 4:19 PM
More hope and change…
Faisal Shahzad was removed from the national terrorist surveillance list before the Times Square attack.
(CBS News)
The Strata Sphere is all over this story.
Confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad was removed from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama came into office.
CBS reported:
Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list – Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) – between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the United States.
The New York Times reported that the person who bought Faisal’s apartment back in 2004 was interviewed by federal investigators.
George LaMonica, a 35-year-old computer consultant, said he bought his two-bedroom condominium in Norwalk, Conn., from Mr. Shahzad for $261,000 in May 2004. A few weeks after he moved in, Mr. LaMonica said, investigators from the national Joint Terrorism Task Force [JTTF] interviewed him, asking for details of the transaction and for information about Mr. Shahzad. It struck Mr. LaMonica as unusual, but he said detectives told him they were simply “checking everything out.”
Barack Obama began shutting down Bush-era terrorist investigations last year including the investigation of Faisal Shahzad.
We all know what happened next.
Last week Faisal almost blew a hole in the middle of Times Square.
The only thing that saved the people of New York was Faisal’s incompetence.
UPDATE: Faisal Shahzad had contacts with several other terrorist leaders including the radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki, the Taliban Chief, and the Mumbai Massacre mastermind.
ABC reported:
Shahzad also had a web of jihadist contacts that included big names tied to terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad, including the figure who has emerged as a central figure in many recent domestic terror attempts – radical American-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki.
Besides Awlaki, sources say Shahzad was also linked to a key figure in the Pakistani Taliban, its Emir Beitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a drone missile strike in 2009. The Mehsuds had been family friends of Shahzad, who is the son of a former high-ranking Pakistani military officer.
Do you feel safe now?
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seven commented:
Booosh
NYC Conservative commented:
This should be a scandal!
Unfortunately, it won’t be.
mbabbitt commented:
Where did the adults go?
bertogem commented:
It’s treason, I’d say.
logprof commented:
“God’s not on our side, ‘cuz he hates idiots also.” –Clint Eastwood
mike191 commented:
If the Republicans had a spine ,this would merrit a fullblown public hearing ,grilling the idiots who shut down investigations for potential terrorists in this Nation.
unbelievable! commented:
I-M-P-E-A-C-H
Tom Kubiak commented:
Figures!!! Time to hold BHO accountable.
Bob Grant commented:
I wonder if Jaime Gorelick was given oversight of the watch list?
ProLifer commented:
We need to keep the detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay OPEN — for the Obama Administration!
TXGuitarMan commented:
More proof that Hussein’s first lie as president was when he took the oath of office. This is an impeachable, treasonous offense and our country will not be safe under his watch.
He is a clear and present danger to our country – there is no other way to see this.
Greg Goss commented:
I heard it was next to impossible to get off that list.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
If you don’t see me commenting sometimes on an article here at GP, it’s because I’d rather practice restraint than show that sometimes Christians like me have some quite un-Christlike thoughts.
Rest assured, I read them all, most days – including the threads. Also, most days, some folks have already said what I was thinking, usually better or more succinctly than I would have said it.
Praise Christ – put your faith and hope in Him.
He is coming soon.
Mrgoodwench commented:
Maybe the taliban called Barack Hussain on the direct line they now have , and ordered him to stop harassing their guy
Maybe shahzad is a code pinko on the side
http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/11/17/jane-fonda-obama-funder-jodie-evans-met-with-taliban-code-pink-gives-terrorists-direct-line-to-obama/
kingsjester commented:
This Administration is either dangerously stupid or just plain dangerous. I’m leaning toward just plain dangerous.
squeaky commented:
who else will pay for obama’s bad decisions.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-alert-did-white-house-order-fbi-to.html
Derak commented:
Quick! Tank the market so we can give these dweebs something to really cry about!
I’ve just about had it with these criminals.
down with dems commented:
So there are tons of stories in the news about small toddlers whose names match people on the no-fly list, and the hassels those poor kids and their parents go through every time they try to fly, yet the innocent kids never get off the no-fly list.
Yet this guy, bringing tens of thousands in cash into the country, spending months at a time in Pakistan, gets off the terrorist watch list. And he almost escaped because no one used to check the no-fly list for outbound terrorists, only in-bound ones.
This whole security apparatus isn’t worth crap if it doesn’t use common sense.
Left Coast Conservative commented:
The timing on the market gyrations vs. this story – what an interesting coincidence.
Alrighty now – moving on . . .
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