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A Nigerian man claiming ties to al-Qaida tried to light a powder aboard a commercial jetliner before it landed Friday in Detroit in what senior U.S. officials called an attempted act of terrorism.
The man had “some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite” in a bag strapped to his body, U.S. officials told NBC News. Other officials told NBC station WDIV-TV of Detroit that the device was a mixture of powder and liquid, which failed to ignite when the passenger tried to detonate it during the plane’s descent into Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
Two people saw the attempted attack, and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News. The man was being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said.
Federal officials identified the man as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria, who was traveling one way, without a return ticket. Dawn Griffith, who was waiting for her husband on the plane, said she saw the man being carted away on a gurney or bed, with his bandaged hands handcuffed to the railing…
Abdulmutallab told investigators that he wanted to set off a bomb over the United States and claimed to be connected to al-Qaida…
Uh, be careful out there, folks. The loonies are on the loose.
Terrorists = Not Humans
Good god that this bomb didn’t went off and kudos to the passengers that jumped this monster.
Once again, all the airport screening failed to prevent an attempted attack. Yet we are still subjected to this useless waste of time.
Passenger awareness is the single best way to secure our skies as has been shown time after time.
#4 + #5 Oops.. guess i spoke too soon
#2 Hey Dude, don’t mess up next time, that was just silly.
Loonies are everywhere. Always were and always will be around.
The question is where and why all this anti-America sentiment? Who stirred the shit pool?
What’s scary is the same element that created this environment is now stirring the loonies in our own country against our president.
#24 You sound like a true repug. Congrats.
And regarding loonies, you are an icon in that dept.
#25 Pedrito. As usual, you are lost for words when cornered with reality.
You know your shameless republican party are stirring the loonies in America because you have nothing else to do. Shameful.
So, did Santa bring you that mule you wanted? Watcha gonna do with the old one? Beat it with a stick and then BBQ it?
#26 Do you have your appointed with your shrink already? You should.
I know reality is too much for you, like any lefty loon that lacks the minimum amount of self respect.
Here’s your conundrum: If Obama is doing the right thing about this attacks, then he’s doing the same things Dumbya did.
If so, either Dumbya did the right thing before or Obama is a continuation of Dumbya, either way, you’re screwed or delusional… or both (I vote for the latter).
Anyway, good to see you embrace your inner repug. You lefty lunacy is so far out that you are slowly becoming a repug.
And regrading the mule, that’s reserved for the most lefty loon demagogues like you. Or you are going to deny your room is wrapped with posters of the Demagogue’s pet animal?
pedro,
As usual, you are being your obnoxious self. It would have been so nice if Santa could have brought you some intelligence.
#28 Aaww, you mad at Obama and reflecting your anger onto others. What happened, you wanted Santa to crying you change and instead you got Dumbya II?
BTW – the dude is the son of a prominent banker in Nigeria.
Pedro’s a troll. His need for relevancy cries out for a good headshrink.
After you remove your mouth from Obama’s anus Pedro, just how much of that brown is left on your lips?
So after Richard Reid tried to blow up one of his shoes, the TSA started making us take off our shoes at security check points. So does this latest incident, in which this yoyo tried to detonate something attached to his legs, mean that we’re now going to have to hand over our pants in the security line, too?
Ah, the cries of lefty loons when faced with the reality that their change was only a change of face in the white house. Business as usual otherwise.
#32 I’m sorry, you must have mistaken me for Dallas or conFusion or retardedfoerever or J. Those have a serious lip lock on Obama’s behind. Perhaps you too?
Pedro, you’re as relevant as a Christmas card in July.
#35 Then why bother even answer. I guess that reply of yours pits you together with the rest of the blog’s lefty loons. Don’t you lose that grip on Obamas’s ass
It was fireworks. I heard the guy was from Yemen and I also heard that the U.S. assisted with a bombing in Yemen. By the way, Blackwater mercenaries are in Pakistan. Looks like a full takeover.
Where is the bullshit meter when you need it??
More BS scripted news from our state sponsored friends in government. the story reported in foreign news is vastly different than what is being reported here.
seek and ye shall find.
-the truth.
-s
It’s not the people, it’s the book they go by that condones murder. And I’m not talking about “Das Capital.”
Capital in German is Kapital. Get a clue.