Focusing The Fight On al Qaeda Instead Of Iraq

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It has now been more than a week since the attempted act of terrorism aboard that flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. On Thursday, I received the preliminary findings of the reviews that I ordered into our terrorist watchlist system and air travel screening. I've directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor at the White House, John Brennan, to lead these reviews going forward and to present the final results and recommendations to me in the days to come.

As I said this week, I will do everything in my power to make sure our hard-working men and women in our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security communities have the tools and resources they need to keep America safe. This includes making sure these communities-and the people in them-are coordinating effectively and are held accountable at every level. And as President, that is what I will do.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the Christmas Day incident continues, and we're learning more about the suspect. We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group-al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula-trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America.

This is not the first time this group has targeted us. In recent years, they have bombed Yemeni government facilities and Western hotels, restaurants and embassies-including our embassy in 2008, killing one American. So, as President, I've made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the Yemeni government-training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence and working with them to strike al Qaeda terrorists.

And even before Christmas Day, we had seen the results. Training camps have been struck; leaders eliminated; plots disrupted. And all those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on Christmas must know-you too will be held to account.




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• Obama
• al Qaeda
• bombing
• christmas day
• NWA
• terror
• terrorist
• Yemen

[LittleBlackPresbo]

Sounds pretty much like Bush. Wonder what freedoms we lose next?

[chewbaca1989]

I don't believe it. What's up with the Indian guy that got this dude on the plane? No ID, no passport, and he get's on the plane.

[JeanLouiseDellAQ1]

Weird he get the dud dudes...

[vdvsoldat]

Obama promised CHAINS. And thanks to US sponsored terror, drug dealing and opium production in the Middle East, Panama and previously in Vietnam, the US gov. can stay financed to burn the constitution, create Hollywood style bullshlt reasons for war and Obama style sales pitches, and the fukn sheep will believe it.

Anyone who believes GW and Obama's bullshlt don't deserve any freedoms and should spend their lives in a cage eating from the bucket of Ignorance.

[flashportalnet]

Different president, same speechwriters.

[PCBroProductions]

@AmericanMale1953 yes yes

[mcgrawtim123]

They still call this "Your Weekly Address". Dude , we aren't the ones talking.

Al Qaeda gets a lot of its money from a tax on the honey gatherers of Yemen. Will the US bomb the beekeepers and hives????

[FruitedLion]

The end of this reminded me a little of Star Wars Episode 3, when the Emperor was taking over the Republic...

[huhnball]

That's the problem right there not the end of it. Bomb them, blow them up, kill them all!! That is the problem. We would rather take what seems to be the easy way out but in reality it isn't the easy way out becasue the problem will still be there and we will spend even more money on the problem we thought we "fixed" by blowing some people up.

[XXRevolveXX]

Obama you have an I.O.U for 32 trillion dollers give or take, bring our troops home and give us back our money. I believed in your change, before i realized you really meant change $0.75

[AmericanMale1953]

As long as they really believe in power and control they will never build anything but stupidity.