His arraignment took place in a conference room at the U. of Michigan Hospital:
Mark Steyn:Mr. Abdulmutallab smiled briefly but said little in the arraignment. One of his burns was visible. His left hand was cuffed to a wheelchair, and he had bandages on his left thumb. His right hand was bandaged, as was his right thumb and right index finger. He was slender in frame, with tight cropped curls and a baby face unharmed by the explosives.
According to two pool reporters, he was asked how he was feeling and he responded: “I’m doing better.” He added that he felt “better than yesterday.” [. . .]
Investigators are now examining how Mr. Abdulmutallab, at age 23, apparently rebelled against this privileged upbringing to pursue an extremist goal. It was while still in high school that Mr. Abdulmutallab began preaching to fellow students about Islam, according to a report in ThisDay, a Nigerian newspaper.
So once again we see the foolishness of complaceniks who drone the fatuous cliches about how "in this struggle, scholarships will be far more important than smart bombs". The men eager to self-detonate on infidel airliners are not goatherds from the caves of Waziristan but educated middle-class Muslims who have had the most exposure to the western world and could be pulling down six-figure salaries almost anywhere on the planet. And don't look to "assimilation" to work its magic, either. We're witnessing a process of generational de-assimilation: In this family, yet again, the dad is an entirely assimilated member of the transnational elite. His son wants a global caliphate run on Wahhabist lines.RTR.
The hero:
How about a medal for this man?[Jasper] Schuringa dove over four passengers to reach Abdul Mutallab’s seat. The suspect had a blanket on his lap. "It was smoking and there were flames coming from beneath his legs."
"I searched on his body parts and he had his pants open. He had something strapped to his legs."
The unassuming hero ripped the flaming, molten object — which resembled a small, white shampoo bottle — off Abdul Mutallab’s left leg, near his crotch. He said he put out the fire with his bare hands.
Schuringa yelled for water, and members of the flight crew soon appeared with fire extinguishers. Then, he said, he hauled the suspect out of the seat.
"I took him in a choke to the first class and all the people were like, ‘What’s going on?!"
"I don’t feel like a hero," Schuringa told the Post as he recuperated with pals. "It was something that came completely natural ... It was something where I had to do something or it was too late."
On those who minimize the threat, see William Jacobson.
On the security implications of explosive underwear, Ed Morrissey.
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I can't help but obsess about our current AG and how naive he is, how idiotic his ideology renders him, and how out of touch he is with the kind of people he wants to "showcase" at the expense of victims so that he can be popular with his elitist buddies. This idealistic nut wanted to kill every man, woman, and child on that plane on Christmas. He didn't hesitate when he saw a young child, innocent, full of life, that never harmed anyone. He didn't care about the orphans he would create that would have a gaping hole in their hearts for the rest of their lives, the mothers, fathers,sisters, and brothers that would never have a day for the rest of their lives without grieving and pain. He was a self-centered, selfish, coward that was so weak minded he was willing to sacrifice others for his own self interests and the fantasy that 72 virgins would be waiting for him. He was less than an animal.
He's no different than the idealistic nuts and thugs Holder will allow to spew their hate so that more people like this guy will attempt the same types of things or even worse. Weak minded nuts like this crave affirmation from others and need to blame everyone else for their own depravity and contempt for those of us that are better than them. There's a reason why certain types of individuals are drawn to a religion that affirms their cruelty, abuse, and suppression of the weaker sex and innocents while at the same time praising an ancient nutjob pedophile that cut people's heads off and thought it was "God's will" yet somehow managed to use his "religion" to gain personal power, wealth, and numerous sex partners. What a bunch of hypocritical nutjobs! Is it any wonder that they remain intellectually almost in the exact same place as their ancestors were while the world passed them by? While the rest of the world was curing disease, caring for the sick, expanding knowledge, science, improving life and everything else these weaklings were intent beating and raping their women while absconding with what should have been a beautiful and peaceful religion, so they could strike out against everyone else, including their own. They need to be exterminated because they are pure evil, not given a platform to recruit. They need to be laughed at for their ridiculous evil view of the world and its inhabitants and not placed on a pedastal where everyone worries about offending them. They murder and terrorize other humans that have the audacity to show Mohammad in a cartoon. We should be publishing billions of cartoons of Mohammad and dumping them all over the world until it becomes so absurd, so commonplace, so ridiculous, that most of them can come to their senses. It's never been a problem to do these things will every other religion. Their greatest strength is our common decency and willingness to accomodate their absurd manifestations of their religion. They believe infidels should be slaughtered. We worry about giving them rights that only our forefathers have bled and died for? They didn't. Instead of trying to accomodate a bunch of sadistic animals posing as religious human beings, we should concentrate on forcing them to either be part of the 21st century or being reduced to clowns that believe God wants them to destroy instead of love, nurture, and care for their women and children. What a bunch of NUTS!!
I've been saying for quite some time now that the airport screening is more about making others feel good about security and safe air travel than actually doing something about it.
This man never should have entered the country let alone an airplane.
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