Excerpt of my new post on TheNation.com:
Reports are emerging suggesting that secret US military intelligence aircraft were used to find and locate Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to set off a crude car bomb in Times Square. The CBS affiliate in New York reported today: “In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in. Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F. Kennedy International Airport.” The post at 5:34 PM was titled “Army Intelligence Planes Led To Suspect’s Arrest.” But then at 6:21 PM, the article’s title was changed to “Total Time Of Investigation: 53 Hours, 20 Minutes: Faisal Shahzad In Custody After Nearly Fleeing United States.” As Rayne observed on FireDogLake, the paragraph about the Army planes was deleted from the CBS story. Screenshot of the original post here.
Man, I could go on about how NOT scary the FAILBomber is to me. I live in NYC and was stuck underground when this all happened and everything I've read about this guy spells amateur.
The fact that they nearly lost this amateur after he waited for two days to leave the country and apparently still needed these secret army intelligence planes to stop him cracks me up. Of course, the fact that these planes were required needs to be hidden to hide the incompetence...
On a side note, Jeremy Scahill rocks. He's a bit too passionate for my personal tastes (not that I'm a journalist--I'm not), but like Edward R. Murrow once said, there's nothing wrong with a bias so long as you don't hide it. Thankfully, Scahill is largely enraged by all the things any moral person should be. What's sad (but sadly not surprising) is that Scahill isn't a household name as the winner of a Pulitzer.
Just my ¥2, as always. For all I know, Scahill hates kittens. I wouldn't want him to have a Pulitzer in that case. Kitten-hating bastard.
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