A pattern of activity appears to be developing regarding terrorists incidents in the United States. When Major Hasan committed his act of terror at Ft. Hood the Army wanted us to believe they were surprised. An Army training handbook entitled “Kidnapping and Terror in the Contemporary Operational Environment”, printed in September 2008, talked about the “lone Wolf terrorist:”. and ...“Individuals who feel disenfranchised from society or the ability to influence personal lifestyle”, a description that sounds similar to Major Hasan. Hasan exhibited disturbing speech and behavior. and communicated with a radical cleric.
We are now presented with another terror plot involving an attempted bombing of a Northwest flight in Detroit, Steve Emerson the noted terrorists expert, reported on Fox news that the alleged suspect, a Nigerian, was known to law enforcement but they didn’t have enough information to put him on the terrorists watch list.
We should begin to ask ourselves, why Hasan wasn’t intercepted and the Nigerian attempted bomber didn’t make the Watch list?
We don’t need another commission to study another failure, we need people who are ready to act based on the information that has been gathered?
We have an intelligence apparatus that is identifying both behavior, and Individuals, but we are failing to act based on our own warnings.
Like our failure to search Zacarias Moussaoui’s computer just prior to 9-11, we are "blinking red" and we needed someone with the intestinal fortitude to make a decision.
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