"New York City car bomber believed to have acted alone IN U.S." (emphasis mine)


Yes, we are back to those strange headlines/stories from the CORRUPT Associated Press, as regurgitated on the useless Yahoo News ( boycott Yahoo).


You will remember my correct criticism early in the week about the AP/Yahoo headline that the NYPD found "no evidence" to connect the car bomber with the Taliban. That headline remains disgraceful. The car bomber may not have been traced directly to the Taliban, but he has been pretty well connected to ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS in PAKISTAN. That early story attempting to downplay a connection with Muslim extremists served no purpose, except to push the mainstream media agenda of ignoring Islamic extremism (including, even, in things like the Danish cartoons and South Park), while still being perfectly willing to reach for "guilt by association" with the Tea Party people if a mere shout comes from the audience (often made up) which indicates "extremism".


That has been the agenda of the mainstream media on the car bomber from the beginning: to label him a "lone disturbed individual"--even before the guy was even identified. The "money honey" on CNBC--believing her won NBC network propaganda--even blamed some stock market nervousness on the obvious FALSITY of this mainstream media mantra that the bomber was unconnected to Islamic extremists. (Maria Bartaromo--sp? Who cares?--is the "money honey")


Why is this latest headline so bad? Isn't it true that the car bomber was probably acting alone in the United States? Probably, although it remains SPECULATION for no purpose.


That is the point. This headline is pretty much meaningless--not "news" of a headline nature at all. Its existence as a major headline (on Yahoo last night) can only be explained by the mainstream media AGENDA and CORRUPTION.


Yes, it would be news if it was discovered that the bomber is part of a larger group of U.S. terrorists. But if he was not part of a larger U.S. group, as appears more likely than not, that is NOT VERY IMPORTANT. Oh, it is worth putting in a larger story on the actual foreign connections of the car bomber. But the corrupt AP, and the mainstream media, want to IGNORE those foreign connections The guy made multiple trips (13?) to Pakistan, and people were arrested in Pakistan. Sure, it is not clear the EXACT connections to Islamic extremists of the car bomber. That is why that is the MAJOR STORY here. But it is a story the corrupt mainstream media is uninterested in (short of absolute proof, and even then they promptly forget it, as they have done with the Ft. Hood shooter and the Detroit plane bomber).


Why is it unimportant that the car bomber "acted alone in the U.S.", if that is true? So What. We now have at least THREE incidents of foreign Islamic extremists "inspiring (probably more than that with regard to Detroit and New York City) a lone individual to make a terror attack in the U.S. All three could probably have been stopped if we acted upon the information we had, and should have had. It is obvious Ft. Hood and Detroit could have been stopped, where we had specific warnings.


What about this last one? Well, we may find we had specific warnings there too. But it is clear WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALERT TO THIS GUY. Multiple trips to Pakistan? I am willing to flatly state: We should be paying attention to the passenger manifest of ALL flights to and from Pakistan (as well as the rest of the Middle East)--especially likely Muslim passengers. Our problem is Muslim extremists. No, we can't ignore everyone else totally, but we should be concentrating on the real problem. It is true that not all, r even most (a question here), Muslims are Islamic extremists. But essentially ALL Islamic extremists are Muslim (generally of Middle Eastern origin or descent). Our mainstream media has no problem asking the Catholic Church why so many of its priests have turned out to be pedophiles (although not nearly so many as the Muslim clerics who are radicals encouraging terrorists). Why is our mainstream media unwilling to ask the Muslim sects the same question: Why do you have so many terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers?


Does it mean we are "safe" if the car bomber was not part of a U.S. group? Were we "safe" that the Ft. Hood shooter was not part of a U.S. group? Were we safe that the Detroit plane bomber was not part of a U.S. group?


Of course not. The car bomber was already out there when the Detroit bomber tried his attack. There could be any number of "lone" people sent into the United States--in one way or another--by Islamic extremists overseas. And there could be any number of lone Americans "inspired" by those Islamic extremists, and who have tried to contact them, even if they are not agents of a particular foreign group.


As the Ft. Hood, Detroit, and NYC attacks have shown, it is IMPOSSIBLE to "defend" every target in the U.S. You have to proactively IDENTIFY even the lone actors. We COULD have so identified the THREE "lone actors" (a possible fourth attacked a recruiting office in Arkansas). But to do so we had to pay attention to ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS (in this country and out of it). Muslims should want these people stopped as much as anyone else--the Muslims who are not Islamic extremists.


Every day, people step off of a plane from Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Any one of those people could be another NYC bomber or Detroit bomber. That does not mean we should persecute all Muslims, or all people who step off of a plane from Pakistan. It does mean that the only way to stop these attacks is to PAY ATTENTION to Muslim extremists.


No, we did NOT "stop" ANY of these attacks. We got LUCKY. The Detroit bomb simply did not work. The NYC bomb did not work--helped by ordinary citizens. The Ft. Hood shooter did kill 13 people or so. We FAILED to stop any of these people, despite information, and possible information, that could have allowed us to stop ALL of these attacks before they reached the end stage.


We may not continue to be lucky. We may not avoid the attack which might now be contemplated by someone who stepped off a plane from Pakistan YESTERDAY (or last month, or last year, or etc.)..


It is a fact that the big problem here are the GROUPS of Islamic extremists willing to, and striving to, send an army of "lone" killers into the United States to kill, and to "inspire" lone Muslims in the United States to kill. This is not speculation. The corrupt AP/Yahoo News even--briefly, reluctantly and belatedly--carried a story early in the week about the Pakistan Taliban threatening more attacks of the type of the New York City car bomber ("appearing" to take credit for this attack, which gains quite a bit of credibility with the now known Pakistan connection). It is true that a GROUP of people in the United States can potentially cause more damage (9/11). However, an ARMY of lone killers recruited by Islamic extremists from outside the country are a pretty big threat. And "lone" individuals are harder to find than groups. Therefore, it is not necessarily true that it is "good news" that it is only foreign groups trying to kill us, or that the New York City bomber was not part of a larger U.S. group. It is BAD news that these Islamic extremists are trying to kill us, and dangerous that they are recruiting/inspiring "lone" killers for that