Where Are They Now: B5
Remember Bad Boy Records Boy Band B5 from back in the day? According to Fresh, this is what they look like now. I refuse to believe it! I’m going to guess they were playing dress up in B. Scott’s closet.
Terrorist Bomber Wore Explosives Sewn Into His Underwear
Al Qaeda terrorist cells have no shortage of ideas to destroy the U.S. We felt safe as a country for 8 years, but that sense of security was threatened on Christmas Day by a baby faced bomber who sat on a Northwest Airlines commercial jet with 80 grams of PETN sewn into his underwear.
PETN, an ingredient of of the highly explosive chemical Semtex, is undetectable by airport scanners and metal detectors. The powdery substance can be detected by bomb sniffing dogs and a simple body pat down.
Just 50 grams of PETN is all that is required to bring down a 727. 50 grams is the exact amount that convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid was found to be carrying on board American Airlines flight 63 in 2001. He is currently serving a life sentence without parole.
PETN has a lower tolerance to shock and vibration than TNT dynamite. Meaning, any little jolt can set the brittle explosive off. The underwear bomb was designed by a top Al Qaeda bomb maker in Yemen where 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the bomb ingredients and instructions.
Luckily, the inexperience of the bomber who failed to fully inject the trigger fluid into the PETN powder properly, saved the lives of the passengers. Only a part of the package containing the PETN exploded setting Umar’s legs, the floor under him and part of a wall of the fuselage ablaze.
In an online posting on a Muslim message board from 2005, Umar, who described himself as feeling “depressed and lonely,” wrote:
“I have no one to speak too [sic]. No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems.” Read more…
New Couple Alert: Trey Song and Keri Hilson?
Usher, Keri Hilson and Trey Song rocked the sold out Philips Arena on Saturday with their fiya remix to Trey’s “I Invented Sex.” Afterwards, the rumor mill cranked up with whispers that Trey and Keri were more than friends.
A source who was in the trio’s dressing room said Trey couldn’t keep his hands off Keri. “They were acting like school kids in the throes of puppy love,” said the source who asked to remain anonymous.
I can believe it. Trey Song seems like the type of corny dude who would fall in love with a chick with no azz to speak of.
Photos by Prince Williams/ATLPics.net
US Admits Failure Over Terror Plot
The United States, specifically the Obama administration, Office of Homeland Security and the State department, admitted failure over the terror plot to blow up a commercial airliner.
Hours after Obama took office in January and began his Muslim apology tour by pandering to the middle east, we predicted there would be an increase in unprecedented terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, attempted to detonate a Semtex (PETN) bomb sewed into his underwear while on board a Northwest airlines jet bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.
4 days previously, Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen released a tape bragging about the Christmas Day bomb and basically giving authorities the heads up. On Nov. 19, Abdulmutallab’s father, a former Nigerian banker, alerted the State department of his son’s extremist views and his threat to America. All signs of the impending disaster were ignored.
It later emerged the Nigerian was on a US watchlist of terror suspects but was not on a “no-fly” list and had a visa to enter the country. [link]
Janet Napolitano, Obama’s secretary of Homeland Security came under fire yesterday for asserting the “system worked.” By late afternoon, she claimed her words were taken out of context. Here is the text of Napalitano’s words:
What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action.
While U.S. president Barack Obama wastes time and money trying to overhaul a health care system that doesn’t require overhauling, his state department ignores terrorists on “watch lists” that should be on “no-fly” lists, especially after 9/11.
When questioned about the ignored watch lists, the only explanation White House press secretary Robert Gibbs could come up with was that the watch lists were put in place by the previous Bush administration. Is that some kind of excuse?
The rules on the lists have been in place since 2006. The Obama administration has been in office since January. If the rules on transferring people from watch lists to no-fly lists are a problem, shouldn’t that have been a higher priority than, say, revamping the entire American health-care system or pushing cap-and-trade bills? It seems like a bigger priority than flying to Copenhagen twice and coming home empty-handed both times, once on climate change and once on the Olympics. Of course, Barack Obama doesn’t have to worry about flying with radical jihadis from Nigeria when he travels abroad. Read More…
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that you can’t bow down to terrorists, you can’t appease terrorists and you certainly cannot ignore them.
Ambulance Speeds To Obama’s Rented Hawaiian Villa
Drudge Report has a breaking news story involving an emergency situation underway at US president Barack Obama’s rented villa in Hawaii. according to Drudge:
Obama leaves golf abruptly for ‘personal matter’; ambulance speeds to first family’s compound… DEVELOPING…
UPDATE:
According to Drudge, the “emergency” is alleged to be a “minor injury” to a “family friend,” which is probably Secret Service code for something major. We doubt the president would stop playing golf to rush home in a motorcade with police escort, running red lights with sirens blaring because a family friend stubbed his toe.
We’ll keep you updated as news develops.
Celebs Out & About: Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union
Remember when we all thought NBA star Dwyane Wade was a good husband and father? And remember when you all wished you were in Siovaughn Wade’s shoes? And remember when you believed Gabrielle Union’s line that she wasn’t really the industry bicycle and she was just misunderstood and a victim of vindictive bloggers?
Well, the deadbeat dad and the home wrecker were spotted out & about on Miami Beach over the Christmas holiday weekend. Too bad Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz weren’t vacationing in Florida, they could have double dated.
Photos: Bauer-Griffin.com
Is Obama Ignoring Terrorist Watch List Put in Place By Bush?
While US President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, the White House is scrambling to explain why terrorism policies put into place by the Bush administration are being largely ignored by the Obama administration.
According to ABC News:
“Brian Jenkins, who studies terrorism for the Rand Corporation, says there were more terror incidents (12), including thwarted plots, on U.S. soil in 2009 than in any year since 2001. The jihadists don’t seem to like Americans any better because we’re closing down Guantanamo.”
My regular readers will recall that Sandrarose.com predicted this would happen when US president Barack Obama revealed his true colors after taking office. It was clear form the beginning that Obama sympathized with Muslim terrorists (notice I use those words together and not separately?).
When Obama took office in January, he announced plans to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba because he was concerned that the civil rights of those murderous terrorists were being violated.
He also drafted a love letter to the Muslim leader of Iran, and gave his first major interview as president — not to a U.S. news network — but to a Muslim network based in Saudi Arabia. All the while denying he was Muslim.
Obama’s primary mission seemed to be to remake the image of Muslim terrorists in the eyes of Americans. The Obama administration even laughably extended invitations to Iranian Diplomats to enjoy hot dogs and burgers on 4th of July (the administration later rescinded the invites).
Yet none of this raised red flags amongst enthusiastic Kool Aid drinkers. But now that the lives of Americans are being threatened on an ever increasing basis, Kool Aid drinkers are sitting up and taking notice.
The question being asked is why didn’t the (Obama) state department take into account a father’s warning that his son might be a danger to the U.S.? We’re not talking any ordinary father here, we’re talking about a former official with the Nigerian government!
The state department employee who took the father’s call, added the son’s name to a terror watch list. Yet Northwest Airlines bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was approved for a travel VISA to the U.S. anyway.
Still, Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the world media “the system worked.”
According to The Washington Post, “White House officials struggled to explain the complicated system of centralized terrorist data and watch lists, stressing that they were put in place years ago by the Bush administration.”
So because the checks and balances system was put in place by the Bush administration, the soft Obama administration has virtually ignored them?
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