Holder: Taliban Behind Times Square Attack (Won't Discuss Why Team Obama Took Him Off Terror List)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 9, 2010, 9:19 AM
Eric Holder today admitted that the Taliban was behind the attempted bombing in Times Square by Faisal Shahzad.
The Political Punch reported:
In his first Sunday morning interview, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Pakistani Taliban was behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing of Times Square last week.
“We’ve now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack,” Holder said on “This Week.”
“We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it. And that he was working at their direction.”
Of course Holder was not asked why Faisal Shahzad was removed from a terror watch list after 2008.
Previously…
Earlier this week it was reported that the Obama White House removed confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama came into office.
Terrorist Faisal Shahzad had substantial connections to the Taliban, reached out to the Taliban, was influenced by Yemeni terror leader Anwar al Awlaki, made at least a dozen return trips to Pakistan since arriving in the United States in 1999, and he bought a one way ticket with cash to Pakistan.
Now we find out that he was “blogging” and asking for jihad as far back as 2006 but that the Obama Administration took him off the terror watch list anyway.
Terror expert Walid Phares weighed in on the confessed Times Square bomber today in an interview on FOX News:
To be clear, Shahzad was actually commenting on terrorist websites and not actually blogging.
It was also discovered that Shahzad was posting on terror websites since 2006.
FOX News reported:
FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects.
Experts suspect this is the same Faisal Shahzad whom authorities have charged with plotting to explode a massive car bomb in New York on Saturday. If so, then he has been educating himself on the Internet for years on the legitimacy of holy war.
Shahzad visited numerous websites devoted to ideological discussion of Islamism and Shariah law. His apparent online posts date back to at least 2006 — three years before the Times Square suspect became a naturalized American citizen.
“If the person on these websites is indeed the suspected bomber, the postings show that he was intellectually thinking about engaging in jihadism for a few years,” said Dr. Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Knowing that, the ideology of jihadism often has inspired violence and terrorism…
“These can be coined as Islamist Salafist websites where lots of material is posted, including theological, ideological and political texts and blogs,” Phares said, noting that he saw discussions about fatwas, jihad and other Islamist causes on these sites.”
It makes you wonder what a guy has to do to make Team O’s terror list?
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Terrye commented:
I am sure this guy is a bad guy and I am sure the Taliban are bad guys too, but I have to say, I wonder what level of Taliban he was working with or was trained by. They blow stuff up over there all the time, and yet Shazahd could not make a bomb. Who trained him? The Three Stooges of the Taliban?
The whole thing just makes me wonder.
Chisum commented:
Lieberman: The system failed with Times Square bomber
However, our counterterrorist resources have now had three plots leak through to fruition in the last six months. Nidal Hasan murdered 14 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood long after he began communications with Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda recruiter who was also behind the underwear-bomber plot on the Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Only the incompetence of the bomber kept hundreds of people from dying in mid-air that day, just as the only hurdle standing behind Shahzad and potentially thousands of victims in Times Square was a faulty bomb design.
What does the Obama administration have to say? They’re saying that the system worked:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/09/lieberman-the-system-failed-with-times-square-bomber/
wanumba commented:
Slightly OT:
Yet ANOTHER pix of Obama with that wagging finger pose of his, this time in graduation robes. Notice who the likes of Adnan, Bin Laden, Zarwari, and every two-bit imam on the internet has that “YOU BETTER LISTEN TO ME AND DO THIS” finger pointing in the air as they lecture the masses?
Ugh.
greenfairie commented:
“It makes you wonder what a guy has to do to make Team O’s terror list?”
1. White
2. Christian
3. Preferably male
4. Identifies as Republican and/or conservative
5. Attended at least one Tea Party during the past year
6. Listens to talk radio
7. Watches Fox News
8. Hates subsidizing the welfare state
9. Doesn’t want the government poking into his life
10. Likes Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh
Anyone fitting the above description is to be approached with extreme caution!
greenfairie commented:
Oh, I forgot…
11. Believes Arizona is part of the U.S. of A., not a colony of Mexico.
Stuart commented:
Of course the system works.
It will continue to work.
Until the bomb does.
Hera commented:
Why was this filth granted American citizenship?Was his being given citizenship part of Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world?
Elly commented:
Earth to Holder: Thank you, Capt. Obvious.
Earth to Obama and everyone else responsible for this guy falling off the radar: What idiots!