Is Obama FINALLY admitting that the 12/25 attack was terrorism, not just extremists? Is Panetta through?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_re_us/us_airline_attack_obama Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot “An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday. “This is not the first time this group has targeted us,” Obama said, reporting [...]

Is Panetta to blame for the intel failure on the 12/25 attack?

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236 Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists “On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. “One of the targeted sites was a suspected al [...]