Al Ayyam Yemen » protecting http://al-ayyam-yemen.com Your Yemen News Source Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Which of these five points best exemplify why Obama should get an “F” for protecting Americans? http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/which-of-these-five-points-best-exemplify-why-obama-should-get-an-f-for-protecting-americans/767/ http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/which-of-these-five-points-best-exemplify-why-obama-should-get-an-f-for-protecting-americans/767/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:22:20 +0000 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/which-of-these-five-points-best-exemplify-why-obama-should-get-an-f-for-protecting-americans/767/ 1. Abdulmutallab’s father spoke several times to the US Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria and visited a CIA officer there to tell him, apparently, that he feared his son was a jihadist being trained in Yemen.

3. It wasn’t just the meeting with the father. According to CBS, “as early as August of 2009 the Central Intelligence Agency was picking up information on a person of interest dubbed ‘The Nigerian’ suspected of meeting with ‘terrorist elements’ in Yemen”.

4. In his studied desire to be the unBush by responding coolly to events like this, Obama is dangerously close to failing as a leader. Yes, it is good not to shoot from the hip and make broad assertions without the facts.

5. There has been a pattern developing with the Obama administration trying to minimise terrorist attacks.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100020934/barack-obama-gets-an-f-for-protecting-americans/

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