Obama is plotting air strikes upon innocent people?

The US is planning retaliatory strikes in Yemen.

"The people we want are the ones who put Abdulmutallab on the plane. Until we can get them there are other high-value targets that will make the point that attacking America does not go unpunished," said the official.

Is it me or does that say finding the people associated with Abdulmutallab will be difficult but in the meantime, they'll bomb whomever they please without a trial or any evidence whatsoever they're terrorists?

"Yemen now becomes one of the centres of that fight. We have a growing presence there – and we have to – of special operations, Green Berets, intelligence," he said.Yesterday, Yemeni forces targeted Nasser Ahmed al-Ahdal, a former prisoner released after renouncing violence but believed to have renewed links to al-Qaida.

Come again?

Did Obama have a terrorist imprisoned but released him when he "renounced violence" and now we find he assisted in Abdulmutallab's crack at downing an aircraft?

I suspect the tip of the iceberg of the consequences of making the prisoners in Guantanamo innocent victims of our courageous men and women in the military.

Several al-Qaida members killed in raids by Yemeni forces in the past fortnight had been released or had escaped from prison. Others who have left jail to rejoin the fight include Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of al-Qaida, who escaped along with 22 others from prison in Yemen in 2006. His deputy, Saeed al-Shihri, joined al-Qaida in Yemen last year after being released to Saudi Arabia from Guantánamo.

National Security is in utter chaos:

The CIA is under pressure after it was revealed that it apparently had two important pieces of the puzzle that might have prevented the attack and did not put them together.

The New York Times said the agency picked up intelligence from Yemen that a Nigerian was at the forefront of a looming attack on American interests. At about the same time, the CIA was part of a briefing at the US embassy in Nigeria after Abdulmutallab's father warned American diplomats that his son was becoming radicalised, and was in Yemen. The CIA drew up a file, but then sat on it for five weeks.

Whooh boy, did Dick Cheney ever have fun today with Barry Soroto's come uppance.

"He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won't be at war," Cheney said in the statement. "He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won't be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won't be at war."

Cheney also said Obama outwardly "pretends we aren't [at war]," and the former vice president repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America "less safe."

"Why doesn't he want to admit we're at war?" Cheney asked. "It doesn't fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn't fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency: social transformation, the restructuring of American society."

Amen brother.