And Friday it almost reaped the bitter fruits of that decision. Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Update: "Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack," by Byron York in The Examiner, November 28 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. On Friday, that task force helped prevent what could have been a horrific terrorist attack in Portland. Now city officials say they might re-think their participation in the task force -- because Barack Obama is in the White House.Reading the FBI affidavit describing Islamist terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud's plan to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square is a chilling experience. Mohamud, a Somali-born naturalized U.S. citizen who attended Oregon State University, told undercover FBI agents he dreamed of performing acts of jihad in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans would die. "Do you remember when 9/11 happened when those people were jumping from skyscrapers?" Mohamud asked the agents, according to the affidavit. "I thought that was awesome." [...]
What is ironic is that the operation that found and stopped Mohamud is precisely the kind of law enforcement work that Portland's leaders, working with the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected during the Bush years. In April 2005, the Portland city council voted 4 to 1 to withdraw Portland city police officers from participating in the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Mayor Tom Potter said the FBI refused to give him a top-secret security clearance so he could make sure the officers weren't violating state anti-discrimination laws that bar law enforcement from targeting suspects on the basis of their religious or political beliefs. [...]
In the Mohamud case, it appears that Portland's anti-law enforcement stand might actually have influenced Mohamud's decision to undertake an attack in the city. According to the FBI affidavit, the undercover agents asked whether he worried that law enforcement would stop him. "In Portland?" Mohamud replied. "Not really. They don't see it as a place where anything will happen. People say, you know, why, anybody want to do something in Portland, you know, it's on the west coast, it's in Oregon, and Oregon's, like you know, nobody ever thinks about it."
Now, there are indications that the Mohamud case might cause city leaders to change their mind about the FBI and the war on terror. Current mayor Sam Adams, who says he was not aware of the Mohamud investigation until after Mohamud had been arrested, told the Oregonian newspaper that he might as the city council to reconsider the decision to pull out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Because he now realizes the city was wrong? Not at all. "[Adams] stressed that he has much more faith in the Obama administration and the leadership of the U.S. Attorney's office now than he did in 2005," the paper reported.
Yes, it's so important to have Faith In Obama.
Faith In Obama.
Talk about the God That Failed!
Always suspected that an average American (not all but an average, i.e 8 out of 10) is a party-baised fool.
Those who support:
- Punitive actins against Arizona.
- Ground Zero Mosque.
- Sanctuary cities.
- Amnesty.
fall in the above category.
Their number (with increased legal and illegal immigration), is pretty high.
American patriots are out-numbered by American traitors.
All of the obtuse positions you list are routinely supported by liberal ideologues, and to a lesser extent, so-called moderates.
Portland had a mayor after 9/11 who removed American flags from fire engines due to someone's feelings. Does anyone know why the current mayor was denied a security clearance? I've heard only rumors.
Wasn't the Portland area the site for a mass poisoning by Muslims years ago? In a nutshell, Portland attracts kooks, elects kooks, and it's no surprise that they're a soft target.
From the article-
“(Portland, Oregon)...And Friday it almost reaped the bitter fruits of that decision...”
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What?!
But.... Isn't Islam supposed to be “the perfect religion of peace and Muhammad-nuts the perfect man and true and final prophet of god?”
Yeah?...
No?...
I am an ex-Muslim with a website:
http://www.considerationsofacanadianex-muslim.org
Truth is mad dog little mohammad boy betrayed all of mankind with his selfish and ignorant lies..
Are there not any “Muslims” lurking out there tonight here at Jihad Watch who will confront and take on an ex-Muslim such as Myself...
Cowards all I guess...
hhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa...lollllllllllllllll
It might have something to do with his proclivity for wandering away when he's supposed to be on official business abroad; it's happened more than once.
As a resident of Boregon, I maintain that this incident and the current leadership of the state both share the same odor...and the same implausible deniability that something is amiss.
"Current mayor Sam Adams, who says he was not aware of the Mohamud investigation until after Mohamud had been arrested, told the Oregonian newspaper that he might as[k] the city council to reconsider the decision to pull out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force." -- from the article.
It's a good start. Then in the next election Portland voters need to replace Mayor Adams with someone with a brain who understands the issues of the Long War. (I realize this would require blue state Oregonians themselves to understand these issues, but one can always dream.)
"It's a good start. Then in the next election Portland voters need to replace Mayor Adams with someone with a brain who understands the issues of the Long War."
It won't happen. Adams ticks off all the boxes that Lefty dominated Portland love. He's liberal, green, and gay. I can understand why the FBI didn't inform Adams. He's got his own baggage that constitutes a real security problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_(Oregon_politician)
…but one can always dream”.
Not really, my friend.
I spent a couple of months in Portland a short time after Sep. 11 and I have never seen so many people happily parading their PC induced degeneracy. I think the density of PC madness in Portland is at least as high as in Berkeley.
It wouldn't surprise me if had the Somali monster succeeded in his mass-murder moslem enterprise the good citizens of Portland would want their mayor to invite Imam Rauf to build a mosque on the site of the murder.
'Portland had a mayor after 9/11 who removed American flags from fire engines'
What kind of a moron mayor removes nationalistic symbols after such a horrific attack? If anything, the attack should have increased nationalistic fervour in his state and in his own heart also.
"What kind of a moron mayor removes nationalistic symbols after such a horrific attack?"
Why, the same kind of idiot mayor that pushes for a Victory Mosque in NYC.
Modern leftism is often at variance with important things, like patriotism and common sense. It's the price one has to pay for false enlightenment. Yes, conservatives are far from perfect in their thinking but they're almost always still ahead of the lefties on every issue, most especially ones that deal with national security and defense. I concluded long ago that modern leftism warps the mind, as Islam does. Helps explain in part why so many lefties keep running interference for the world's worst religion. Yes indeed, a warped mind is an ugly thing to behold and is always deficient in appreciating liberty and the responsibilities that must be engaged in to preserve it.
You must remember that they think the United Stated caused the jihad by attacking Afganistan and Iraq. Never mind that jihad started in the seventh century.
Nowhere in Dar al-Harb will be safe from Islam's jihad against Christmas.
And hot from the news-wires. An Afghan training with NATO troops has shot six dead. Islam or culture to blame? Just a one-off rogue Talib, like Mohamud?
Or could it just be what's contained in Al Qur'an?
When are the ruling classes going to wake up to the fact that the Qur'an is the smoking gun, the hand soaked with blood?
Here is our history with "PEACEFUL" Islam
“Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:
… that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.” We need to start with our history and then progress to the history of Islam and their quest to conquer the world. Read Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation by Joshua E. London.
Just think. If Oregon had co-operated with the FBI taskforce during the dark days of George W. Bush's administration there might have been 20 exploding vehicles from allah at the Christmas tree ceremony.
To "Alert" & "Ebonystone"...right on & amen!!!I don't get having "faith in obanana" OR his administration! We'd be better off with Robin Williams in office :D
@ "Wellington"....very very well said!
"What is ironic is that the operation that found and stopped Mohamud is precisely the kind of law enforcement work that Portland's leaders, working with the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected during the Bush years."
Yes it is....and those Portland citizens infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome are still infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome and they remain unappreciative...
"In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force."
...and bowing to their rants and distrust and lack of the ability to identify the terror that Islam brings, the Bush administration promptly sent thousands of Somali immigrants to relocate in Portland....
So let's see: a city that publicly rejected the Bush Adm.'s policy in the war on terror and abjured U.S. flags on its municipal vehicles was nonetheless the target of a terror attack by a self-glorifying "jihadist." Now where are all those "moderate Muslims" who keep yammering about a) their "persecution" at the hands of the "Islamophobes" and b) how big bad evil imperialist/Zionist Amerikkka brings Muslim violence on itself by its oppression of Muslims and support of Israel? How anti-U.S. does a dhimmi have to be to be immune from attack from a "jihadist" and his "moderate" enablers/cheerleaders? Apparently not even the politically correct Portlanders passed muster.
The fact of the matter is that Muslims wish to impose totalitarian Shari'a everywhere, they have the Leftist useful idiots abetting them, and no one is immune. They kill and they like to kill. And they have their useful idiots helping them, blaming the Jews for everything.
Here is a FoxNews video on this exact subject
http://thereligionofconquest.com/2010/11/29/portlands-city-council-and-mayor-rejected-joint-terrorism-task-force-in-2005/
Let the retribution begin!
"[Adams] stressed that he has much more faith in the Obama administration and the leadership of the U.S. Attorney's office now than he did in 2005,....meanwhile, this administration, the apple of this morons eye, has done so much more to eliminate our rights than any president before him. I'm so tired of these ideo-illogical morons who seem to vote and think along party lines no matter what the cost. We all better start thinking as Americans and can the dem vs. repub thinking that dominates our policies and procedures. Muslims want to kill all americans; they're not asking for voter registration designations and couldn't care less if you stand up for their rights.
Let's see. The mayor is rethinking his refusal to join the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force because Obama is now in the White House. Obama's been the president for almost 23 months. So he's had 23 months to change his policy. All of a sudden this failed terrorist attack happens and NOW he's going to change his mind just days after the incident? Gee what a coincidence. Of course it has nothing to do with the fact that hundreds of his citizens would have been blown to pieces. It's all about Obama being president now. I think it's called damage control.
It's yet another reminder that appeasement like taking down the US flag only encourage the Jihadists.
this is reminiscent of the time when, just back from the Vietnam War, I saw a bumper sticker that read: "Next time you're in trouble, call a hippie."
this reminds me of when, upon returning from the Vietnam War, I saw a bumper sticker that read: "Next time you're in trouble, call a hippie."
khushi.......Don't fall for medina's off handed remarks. His comments don't have any substance. He is one of the liberal bashers in here. As you noticed, he makes accusations, but he does not have any substance to those nor any facts.
This jihadist guy is caught under Obama's watch, but its still somehow Obama's fault or the fault of the mayor of Portland. The FBI is not anyones private security guards, we all pay taxes and we all are entitled to their protection. God Bless!