By Semperpapa
By now we should all be aware of the terror plot that was thwarted in Oregon yesterday, but, just in case, here is the scoop.
Federal agents arrested a Somali-born, US naturalized teenager who had been plotting for months to detonate a car bomb during the official lighting of the Christmas tree in Portland, Oregon.
Agents had interdicted the teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, last June during his planning of the attack and finally arrested him on Friday as he was frantically dialing his detonator cell phone. He had just driven a van loaded with what he believed to be explosives to the place where thousands of people were gathered for the annual tree-lighting ceremony.
According to reports from the FBI agent in change Arthur Balizan, the young man was absolutely determined to conduct the attack and impervious to the possibility of killing scores of innocent people, including many children. At the time of his arrest, Mohamud resisted the agents attempting to kick them.
He is now charged with attempt use of use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a statutory life sentence.
So these are the facts. I am sure that there are many more details that are not being divulged to the Media. At least I am hoping that the long surveillance of the guy has netted a good amount of intelligence useful to the prevention of further attacks.
Having read reports of this new terror threat against American innocent population, I found something missing in them that is a disturbing sign of the attitude that authorities and the Media have taken toward this whole affair.
The NY Times dedicated an Associated Press 925 word article to it as did Fox News, the Oregonian another 968 words and CNN approximately the same amount of words.
In all the thousand of words written about this incident, there were two that appear to be conspicuously absent: Islamic Radical.
The only reference that the articles would make of the motivations behind Mohamud’s ferocious determination to slaughter scores of innocent civilians is the report of his yelling of “Allah Akbar” as he was trying to detonate the explosives.
Such an expression being the invocation of Islamic radical terrorist as they conduct their murderous plots, we can safely assume that the 19 year old Somali is one of the followers of the religion of peace.
Information about the case and the arrest was provided to the Associated Press and the Oregonian by Oregon U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton who released also the following statement:
"This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people -- even here in Oregon -- who are determined to kill Americans. The good work of law enforcement protected Oregonians in this case -- and we have no reason to believe there is any continuing threat arising from this case."
The part that struck me about the statement is the “even here in Oregon” one. What does such statement really mean? Is Mr. Holton surprised that such a terrorist plot would be planned in a part of the country so far from the usual centers of interests for terrorists, like New York or Washington DC? Are we really that naïve?
Or is the statement related to the overwhelming liberal political leaning of that part of the country, which should have exonerated it from the hatred of Islamic jihad?
The truth of the matter is that the danger of Islamic radicalism is a reality across our Nation. We are increasingly seeing U.S. citizens becoming perpetrators or wannabe perpetrators of mass murder within our borders, and the reality is that authorities in charge of protecting us are trying their best to defuse these attacks, even as they are impeded at every step by civil liberty proponents (i.e. ACLU) to secure the safety of the people.
Officials from the Obama administration are somewhat shocked by the latest discovery that the forces of Islamic Jihad are very active in recruitment of potential terrorists within America, but is reality the progressive immigration agenda pursued by the government for many years now, combined with the continuous denial of the intrinsic link between radical Muslims, Shariah Law and terrorism, have created the perfect breeding grounds for internal jihad.
In closing, it has also been reported that Mohamud was a student at a local university, which explains, somewhat, the even more profound radicalization of the individual, to the point of wanting to kill hundreds or thousand of innocent people.
The truth is apparent. We are facing a threat within our borders that many, including myself, have been warning about for some time now. The American people are still not fully aware of the level of risk we are in, either because of misinformation or because of politically correct sanitizing of the truth.
The aim on the part of this administration, even more than it was for the Bush administration, is to take the truth about the threat that uncontrolled Islamic radicalism represents and just give it a different name.
The Obama crowd cannot even define our enemy as Islamic radicalism, changing instead its name to al Qaeda or Taliban, completely overlooking the totality of the problem we face as a society.
The approach of “ignore it and maybe it’ll go away” is definitely not working and it will be costly.
Just my thoughts!
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