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Mohamud’s Bad Luck Was Not Just Luck

Posted on | November 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Jeremy Lott on the Portland bomber:

Mohamud thus makes three in a string of recent examples of Islamists who have plotted unsuccessfully to blow up Americans on U.S. soil. Last month in another sting, the FBI arrested Farooque Ahmed in Virginia for casing the D.C. Metro system to plot a bomb attack. In May, Faisal Shahzad created but did not managed to detonate a bomb in New York’s Times Square. These incidents are linked, and so is their failure. The linkage is obvious. All men were Muslim immigrants who decided to bring Jihad to America. That it didn’t work out is not merely a matter of luck. . . .

Read the whole thing.

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  • Joe

    A sound commentary on the current situation. Mostly true. That said, a lone wolf (or worse a tight cell of terrorists) can inflict a lot of damage.

    And we can count off at least half a dozen attacks involving fatalities since 9/11, even if they were small scale. Of course to the families hurt by this, they were not small scale.

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