Why the car bomber was caught – the NY Times is reporting that the key link was made because for a period of time we targeted people from predominantly muslim countries for extra screening, including getting a reliable phone number for them. That phone number was connected to the throwaway phone that was used to arrange buying the pathfinder and led them to his name and the paperwork when he entered the country.
DHS has since discarded that targeted focus on people entering the country from Muslim countries.
I had two conversations today about this subject – both sufferers of BDS who are trying to rationalize this as the act of a single person who was angry because his house was foreclosed. [Just an aside, he got his $220k mortgage in 2005, but he didn’t become a citizen until 2009]. No amount of facts or connections will open their mind that he is just a moving part of a larger religious and political movement to destroy Western civilization and Democracy. Secular Westerners are so wrapped up in “I” that we can’t understand a culture where individuals are expendable for a cause.
I’m beginning to understand the 1930s more clearly. When faced with an enormous unacceptable reality occuring in front of their eyes, people go to great lengths to ignore the obvious and rationalize that they aren’t in danger. I bet if you asked these people if they are willing to go see the 9/11 documentary, they will still answer “It hasn’t been enough time yet – it’s still too painful”.
Since his dad is a very high up officer in the Pakistani Military, I think it will turn out that we’re ultimately going to find an ISI connection (the Pakistani secret police – kind of like the Pakistan version of the CIA and the FBI combined) – the same people who were running the Taliban before 9/11 and probably flew Osama Bin Ladin out of Afghanistan as the US Military was closing in on him.. Now that we’re turning the screws in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, The car bomb was not intended to actually blow up – this time. It was a warning to the Obama administration right from the government of Pakistan.
This all makes sense. Not really a Zimmermen Telegram, yet. Recalling Richelieu, Bismark, Metternich – I don’t recall these puppeteers incorporating such crudities (on a regular basis) that the Muslim seems to favor over and over and over. There was a certian élan to the Reagan Plan of defeating the Evil Empire – ‘course history did exactly go as planned. A part of my business is high turnover, the 30 y/o and younger haven’t got a clue about who we are, how the world came to be as it is and where we are probably going. The abject ignorance of the general population gives The Annointed One and his string-pullers a free hand. I sold all of my securities in early ’08, I sold all of my gold recently, I am buying food and ‘pointy lead things’.
You get big bonus points for mentioning the Zimmerman telegram – it would have been extra credit if it had been on the Cinco de Mayo.
Back in the early days of the Internet before many Americans had easy contact with people around the world, I remember a conversation in a chat room with a person from Germany – which was still adjusting to the reunification. He didn’t indicate if he was a former East German, but his interests suggested that. The bottom line is his view (and East Germans didn’t just go away) was that US and NATO were not there to protect Germany and Europe from a Russian invasion, but to suppress German nationalism and militarism. As this Greek crisis unfolds, it’s becoming clear that the EU is going to become dominated by the Germans, since they have the economy that actually makes stuff other than no show government jobs. Who needs tanks when you have an international banking system and a transnational legal framework in place?