Islamic terrorist bomb attacks, whether suicide or otherwise, are coming to America. Everyone knows that; it’s only a matter of time. What the mujahideen have done in Iraq and Bali and Madrid and London they would dearly love to inflict on us, and we must assume that they are trying, twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week, to do just that.
There have been at least two reminders of this fact so far this week. The bomb threat to the New York subway and the Oklahoma “suicide” bomber represent the prodromal stage of what is certain to be a deadly and prolonged malignant effort by the Great Islamic Jihad to accomplish its objectives in the United States.
If a bomb goes off in the New York subway tomorrow morning, will Mayor Bloomberg hasten to reassure frightened New Yorkers that the bomber “had no known connection to terrorism”? Will the Chief of Police step up to the microphones and say, “As far as we know, no other persons were involved”? Will they behave like David Boren and other officials in Oklahoma?
What’s behind this urge to play down the jihadic implications of these events? Do our leaders think we Americans are too weak, too easily frightened, to hear the truth? Are they afraid of creating mass panic and an economy-damaging media obsession, as with the anthrax attacks in 2001 and the Beltway sniper in 2002?
They seem to be scripting their pronouncements based on the Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco playbook. When the attack finally comes, will it be George W. Bush’s fault, and the result of systemic American racism?
Seriously, though, what’s going on?
David Boren doesn’t really know that the OU bomber acted alone. Nor does he know that Joel Hinrichs had no connection to terrorists. It’s way too early to assert such things.
If it turns out that Joel Hinrichs was part of a larger jihad operation, and that operation later successfully carries out a deadly attack, David Boren’s career will be negatively impacted. What’s his motive, then, for pooh-poohing the jihad connection now?
To be sure, it postpones dealing with the issue for a little while longer. But only a little while — the other shoe may yet drop during his tenure.
It’s conceivable that officials don’t want to compromise an ongoing FBI operation, one that had already been investigating Joel Hinrichs and his buddies at the mosque. But saying “the investigation into a terrorism connection is ongoing” wouldn’t compromise anything. So why not say it?
In fact, saying “there is no connection” has the opposite effect, since it is so obviously laughable; any terrorist with half a brain knows the authorities are lying. You might as well hire a plane to fly over Norman dragging a banner that says WE ARE INVESTIGATING YOU.
So why not come out and say it?
I’m not normally a conspiracy-oriented person, but all this ham-handed dissembling is enough to make me join the tinfoil-hat brigade.
To be sure, it postpones dealing with the issue for a little while longer. But only a little while — the other shoe may yet drop during his tenure.
Well, what may “yet drop” could be a shoe bomb.
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Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I think I was channeling Buddy. Or Doug.
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Annie Jacobsen’s investigation into all the acronyms who investigate these things, the bureaucrats who burn the midnight oil on our behalf, has left me cynical. The greatest generation is dead and there are a bunch of incompetents in their place.
Not that the ancestors didn’t have their flaws or play CYA. But that’s the *only* game in town now.
The problem is clearly Bush’s advisors. We don’t want to admit the White House has been infiltrated but it has. Muslim Grover Norquist has been lying to Bush about Muslims, protecting Islam, that’s taqiyya, my friends. And he is not the only one.
It is sad to see how Muslims have taken over almost all our Middle East studies programs and corrupted the entire system, protecting Islam (yep, that’s taqiyya too). Seriously, how can anyone highly educated be an American and be a Muslim. Unless, they are just working for the ummah knowing it may not be achieved in their lifetime. You have to get in to the Muslim mind and understand the goal and the patience and the deceit that all of them recognize is part of the process of conquering the West.
You know, I’m not hearing much about this bomber at all except on blogs. Which is a pity, because the infamy will go down with the Louie B. Armstrong shooter, the El Al shooter, and the other ignored threats.
Then again, given how much terrorists love attention, maybe by ignoring them we are doing some psychological damage.
Add this to the list of “Things that make you go Hmmm” (hat tip to The Ox Rant): Second strange violent suicide
Channel 5, OK City:
Former Student Kills Self At School
POSTED: 4:08 pm CDT October 5, 2005
UPDATED: 11:47 am CDT October 6, 2005
OKLAHOMA CITY — Day classes are canceled Thursday at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center’s Information Technology Building after a former student committed suicide there.
Oklahoma City police said the woman walked into the building Wednesday afternoon and was met by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy who was working as a security officer. The woman then pulled a gun and shot herself.
Her name hasn’t been released.
School spokesman Jeffrey Knapp said the woman was a former information technology student who recently withdrew from the school.
Although day classes are canceled today, night classes will be held as scheduled.
The above was the only mention of the suicide that google news turns up. Was the deputy attempting to question her about anything? Was he attempting to question her about anything relating to the stadium bombing? Why isn’t her name released two days later?
Papa —
You’re right about Google News. But if you google the web on “Francis Tuttle”+shot, you’ll find one other story, at KTOK. But it has even less information.
Very strange.
I’m a lot more afraid of the guy down the street who spent his childhood being knocked around by characters like this than I am of some organized group of foreigners. The foreigners can at least be followed, watched, and investigated by our law enforcement people before they strike. The embittered loner has no paper or money trail to give him away ahead of time and no one in authority is even willing to admit that this is a problem.