Imagine the havoc if Najibullah Zazi had succeeded in exploding a bomb at a baseball or football game. Yet this story is getting little or no attention, either from the mainstream media or the large "conservative" blogs. Everyone knows there is no terror threat, eh? Michael Moore was right all along.
An update on this story. "Suspect's Computer Said to Show Sports Stadiums, Fashion Sites: Officials Report Denver Man Sent Texts Suggesting Attack Coming; 'Wedding Cake' Is Ready," by Richard Esposito, Brian Ross and Clayton Sandell for ABC News, September 19:
A computer belonging to alleged al Qaeda suspect Najibullah Zazi showed he had researched baseball and football stadiums and sites used in the recent Fashion Week event in New York City, law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com.
Zazi, 24, was scheduled to be questioned for a fourth straight day today by FBI agents, but failed to show up this morning. Asked if his client had been taken into custody overnight, Zazi's lawyer Arthur Folsom said, "Read between the lines."
While officials say they do not know the targets of the alleged plot, the contents of Zazi's computer are considered a valuable insight into what he might have been planning.
After first denying any ties to al Qaeda, Zazi has now admitted certain ties developed during trips to Pakistan, law enforcement officials told ABCNews.com.
The officials said text messages sent by Zazi suggest the plot was nearing the attack phase. One message said the "wedding cake is ready," which authorities say may have been code to indicate the attack was ready. Al Qaeda operatives have frequently used references to weddings to disguise planned terror attacks....
A recipe for homemade explosives found on Zazi's computer would have produced a bomb of the same size and type used in London, authorities said.
The suicide bombers in London used backpacks and plastic containers to carry the explosive mixtures.
Raids in New York led to the discovery of 14 new backpacks....
This evidence alone should be enough to have the jihadist convicted and executed.
He's on the loose and didn't show up for questioning today.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552505,00.html?test=latestnews
"the wedding cake is ready" But the grooms have been sadly delayed due to those pesky FBI investigators, mucking up the wedding plans. Sorry, houri brides, you're going to have to wait for these husbands and'martyrs' -- let's hope for a long long long long time. Sentences of 40 years like the English would-be 'bridegrooms' would be great.
They are following him to find his associates. he will slip up.
Hmmm. Looks like we have some more entries for the Islamic Dictionary For Infidels, Codespeak division.
'Wedding' = jihad raid, most probably of the get-your-self-killed-while-mass-murdering-Infidels variety.
"Wedding cake" = high explosive.
(Remember that UK convert to Islam, who had a cake tin full of highly-unstable homemade explosive in his kitchen?).
Note - folks, do you realize that *this* is why, when a drone or a party of US soldiers blows up a bunch of armed Mohammedan jihadists, the Mohammedans always declare that it was "a wedding party!".
The gullible Western press takes the statement at face value - oh dear, poor lads, off to a wedding to be the honor guard (like those guys with crossed sabres who sometimes stand outside the church in western countries, when one of their mates gets married), how sad they were mistaken for a war party and obliterated by a US drone.
We jihadwatchers ROFL at what we take to be the transparency of the lie - of *course* the chaps who got killed were a war party and there probably wasn't a wedding (in the human sense) anywhere in the offing.
But when we laugh, we fail to see that we're dealing with Islamic cultspeak - in which a war party, off to slay and be slain in the cause of allah, *is* ...'a wedding party'. In that sense, the Mohammedan 'witnesses' who tell the Western reporters that such-and-such a group of armed Mohammedans, flattened by the latest drone, were 'a wedding party', *are* telling the truth to the reporters...but they know the reporters are too uninformed to realize what they're actually talking about.
Anybody want to bet he is not invited to dinner at the White house sometime in the next few months?
I guess that he wanted to strike the Yankees out. This guy is dangerous. We should put him in a clubhouse with the Tigers as the Cubs are too small. Remember when Houston had the Colt 45s?