Monday - April 22, 2013
Good Grief, I takE a few hours off and look what happens …
Too many bits going on in the news to keep on top off, so here are a fast handful of links. The last story, about the AQ bombing plot thwarted in Canada, may turn out to be the biggest one of all, and open the whole AQ In The West can of worms. Right now it isn’t much of a story. Not yet.
- Boston Bombers Had Guns Illegally. #3 in the No Kidding Parade, right? Not that they couldn’t have got them; I gather the two are American citizens with no prior convictions and no adjudicated mental health issues. So acquiring firearms legally would only be a matter of paperwork, time, and money. And being at least 21. As college students, maybe they didn’t have the required $100 to spare (per weapon?). Street guns are so much cheaper though, and so much faster to get your hands on.
In the confrontation with police on the streets of a Boston suburb, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were armed with handguns, at least one rifle and several explosive devices, authorities say.
But neither brother appears to have been legally entitled to own or carry firearms where they lived, a fact that may add to the national debate over current gun laws. Last week, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill to expand background checks on gun purchases, legislation that opponents argued would do nothing to stop criminals from buying guns illegally.
Nice try al-Reuters, but the background check thing is dead. Not that it would have done a damn thing in this case either. PS - nobody anywhere can get government licensing or approval for home-made bombs for personal jihad use. Just about every government everywhere frowns on that one.
- Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day Nasty, rabid leftist Bill Maher calls BS to another lib and says Boston bombings were jihad. Superb, but he’s still the 3rd biggest douche on TV.
BRIAN LEVIN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF HATE AND EXTREMISM AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNADINO: Could I just interject? Look, it’s not like people who are Muslim who do wacky things have a monopoly on it. We have hypocrites across faiths, Jewish, Christian who say they’re out for God and end up doing not so nice things.
MAHER: You know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? That’s, that’s liberal bullshit right there. I mean, yes, all faiths…
LEVIN: There are no Christian hypocrites?
MAHER: No, there are.
LEVIN: You make a career on that.
MAHER: They just, they’re not as dangerous. I mean, there’s only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There’s only one faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. An ex-Muslim is a very dangerous thing. Talk to Salman Rushdie after the show about Christian versus Islam. So, you know, I’m just saying, let’s keep it real.
LEVIN: Well, I guess I have a girl for you, Pam Geller you could maybe meet. No, I really disagree with you.
MAHER: I don’t know what that means.
LEVIN: Well, she’s an Islamaphobe. But, no I…
MAHER: I’m not an Islamaphobe. That’s wrong. I am a truth lover. All religions are not alike. As many people have pointed out, “The Book of Mormon.” Did you see the show?
LEVIN: No, it’s hard to get tickets.
MAHER: Okay, can you imagine if they did “The Book of Islam?” Could they do that? There’s only one religion that threatens violence and carries it out for things like that. Could they do “The Book of Islam” on Broadway?
LEVIN: Possibly so.
MAHER: Possibly so? Tell me what color the sky is in your world.
- Feds ask to interview widow of suspected bomber as brainwashing claims surface
WHAT WHAT WHAT?? Well, duh, of course. Doesn’t it figure? Former all-American hot college chick goes jizzlam, turns into a brain dead zombie, starts cranking out little terrorists. Naturally.
Federal investigators want to speak with the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Muslim convert and mother of their 3-year-old daughter, according to the Rhode Island woman’s attorney.
Investigators went to the suburban Rhode Island home of Tsarnaev’s in-laws Sunday evening, where Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, 24, has been staying. Lawyer Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press that she did not speak with them and they are discussing how to proceed.
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DeLuca said Russell did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He saidshe had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week as a home health care aide. While she was at work, Tsarneav, 26, cared for their toddler daughter, DeLuca said.
Sure he did. Well you can’t expect a big bad-ass important jihadi to actually have a frickin’ job, now can you???
Russell, according to reports, was “totally transformed” by Tsarnaev after meeting him. By age 21, she had married him and borne his daughter, Zahara, who is now 3 years old, the Daily Mail reports. She also converted to Islam and underwent a change so profound that few friends truly understood the sizable shift.
“I saw her like a few months ago and she was just totally transformed,” one former classmate told the newspaper. “She was not the same person at all.”
Another former classmate said the “All-American” girl had been “brainwashed” by her super-religious husband.
Russell later met Tsarnaev while she was a student at Boston’s Suffolk University. Soon thereafter, she converted and her priorities seemingly changed, as she left the school in 2010 without graduating. Months earlier, in July 2009, Tsarnaev was arrested for allegedly assaulting Russell, who described Tsarnaev to authorities as a “very nice man,” the newspaper reports.
Hey, wouldn’t that charge right there disqualify him from buying a gun??
- Republicans, Stupid As Usual: Dzhokhar charged, will not be treated as enemy combatant. Well no shit, he’s an American citizen now. Ya can’t do that. Nor is what he did a combat action. Nor is he a soldier of another government. Sorry, but we still have a few laws still working.
The White House said Monday that the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will not be treated as an enemy combatant, drawing a rebuke from Republican lawmakers who wanted the administration to consider that option for the sake of intelligence gathering.
The announcement came as a federal complaint was filed against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Fox News has learned that the suspect made an initial appearance in front of a federal magistrate judge at the hospital where he still is being treated. Fox News also confirmed he was advised of his Miranda rights. No plea was entered.
The complaint charged Tsarnaev with using a weapon of mass destruction at the marathon one week ago, an attack that killed three people and injured more than 200. The document authorized the death penalty or life imprisonment to be sought.
“Although our investigation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston, and for our country,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a written statement.
As the complaint was filed, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made clear that the suspect would go through the civilian court system and would not be handled as a combatant.
“He will not be treated as an enemy combatant,” Carney said. “We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice.”
Carney stressed that the civilian system has been used to try, convict and incarcerate “hundreds of terrorists” since the 9/11 attacks, including the Times Square attempted bomber. “The system has repeatedly proved that it can successfully handle the threats we continue to face,” he said.
Carney noted U.S. citizens—like Tsarnaev—cannot be tried in military commissions under U.S. law.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and other lawmakers, though, were not suggesting he be tried before a military commission. Graham, rather, was suggesting that the administration label him an “enemy combatant” for purposes of intelligence gathering. He said Monday afternoon that he “strongly” disagrees with the administration’s decision to rule out that possibility.
Hundreds??? Blink. Blink. Hundreds?? But trust the Dems to treat terrorism as a crime, not an act of war. Although in this one instance I have to agree with them. Until somebody gets off his can and brings back the charge of treason, we’re pretty much stuck with plain old murder and WMD charges against our own people who blow up our own people. And if we do bring back treason charges, there’s a long, long list of people in DC to charge before we ever get around to some dipshit little bomb throwers. Too bad you were in such a hurry to grant him citizenship.
- Wall Street Journal: Damn Right It Was Jihad
Is this, as former CIA Director Michael Hayden put it, the new normal?
There is also cause for concern in the president’s reluctance, soon after the Boston bombing, even to use the “t” word—terrorism—and in his vague musing on Friday about some unspecified agenda of the perpetrators, when by then there was no mystery: the agenda was jihad.
For five years we have heard, principally from those who wield executive power, of a claimed need to make fundamental changes in this country, to change the world’s—particularly the Muslim world’s—perception of us, to press “reset” buttons. We have heard not a word from those sources suggesting any need to understand and confront a totalitarian ideology that has existed since at least the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1920s.
The ideology has regarded the United States as its principal adversary since the late 1940s, when a Brotherhood principal, Sayid Qutb, visited this country and was aghast at what he saw as its decadence.
Well ... as Sean Connery’s Chicago cop Sam Malone said in The Untouchables, “What are you prepared to do?”
- AQ In Canada Busted: Plot To Blow Up The Eh, Train?
Alleged ‘al-Qaeda-supported’ plot against Via train thwarted ; Police say 2 accused were getting ‘direction and guidance’ from al-Qaeda elements in Iran
Police say they have arrested two men accused of conspiring to carry out an “al-Qaeda supported” attack targeting a Via passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area, following a cross-border investigation that involved Canadian and American law enforcement.
In a press conference that followed a report by CBC’s Greg Weston, police named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, from Toronto. They have been charged with conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack and “conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.”
Chiheb and Raed? Looks like another loss for the “Please let it be a white guy” crowd.
A potential bomb plot on a passenger train over the Niagara River has been averted, a police source says. …
One police source said there were several scenarios being looked at during the year the suspects were tracked, including the train plot.
One of the plots uncovered by the RCMP and other agencies was a planned bombing of a passenger train on the bridge that connects Canada and the United States at Niagara Falls, a police source says.
“The plan was to take out a train with passengers on board and the crossing trestle,” said a source. “It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage.”
Horry Clap. Burn them at the stake. Don’t you dare fuck with my bridges.http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/22/breaking-canada-us-bust-terrorist-plot-in-quebec/
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/22/feds-thwarted-major-terrorist-attack-report
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/22/pol-terror-plot-ontario-quebec-arrests.html
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/04/canadian-terrorist-plot-foiled-arrests-made/
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