Tim Sumner

Jihadists aided UK ‘moron’ nail bomber

The nail bombing in Exeter, England, sounds a lot like al Qaeda in Iraq using mentally challenged men, women, and children, sending them into crowds, and remotely detonating the explosive vests strapped to them.

Jihad Watch reports that:

[E]vidently Mohammed Rasheed (Nicky Reilly) wasn’t a freelance jihadist or a random fellow acting out his random mental illness at all. He seems to have been part of a jihadist group. And two more men have been arrested in connection with the attack.

“Exeter explosion: ‘bomber’ Nicky Reilly was sent text of encouragement,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, May 23.

The UK Telegraph also reported:

The man detained over a bomb attack in Exeter suffered mental health problems which were exploited by radicals, who “brainwashed” him outside a fish and chip shop, it was claimed today.

He repeatedly watched video footage of the September 11 attacks and had a poster of the burning Twin Towers on his wall, friends claimed. They said that he was “naive and easily lead” and had attempted to commit suicide several times. The suspect lives with his mother in the centre of Plymouth – near the cafe where he allegedly held “secret meetings”, a kebab shop called Halal Chicken and Meat. Bradley Kinsman, 22, said: “He started hanging out with some Muslims and they would meet in a couple of places.

Barack Obama should drop Baghdad Bob as his running mate

Senator Barack Obama is not stuck on stupid; he knows the tide of battle in Iraq has turned decisively in America’s and Iraq’s favor. Yet he always bets on red — the bloody trail of America’s defeat — as the road to his personal victory in November.

In a New York Post editorial this morning:

Both The New York Times and the Washington Post this week had front-page stories about successful operations by Iraqi forces to root out Shiite militias in Baghdad’s Sadr City — a significant turning point in the war and a huge accomplishment for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

But there Obama was Tuesday evening patting himself on the back for his Oregon primary victory while once again repeating the same old tired formulation about the “failed” Bush policy in Iraq, “that asks everything of our troops and nothing of Iraqi politicians.”

[Barack Obama] certainly hasn’t let the facts change his opinion about what is going on in Iraq or what the United States should do in response. Like a broken record, he just keeps repeating the same old tune.

If he really were a new kind of politician, he’d cheer what’s happening in Iraq, compliment Prime Minister Maliki for his strides and rethink his promise to undercut the progress by a precipitous withdrawal of all American troops.

In his stubborn refusal to admit things have changed in Iraq, Obama is looking more and more like a throwback to the Vietnam protesters who actively promoted America’s defeat in order to prove they were right in their opposition to the Vietnam War. He may not be old enough to remember firsthand the shouts of “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,” or the Viet Cong flags hoisted at anti-war rallies of that era.

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