Jihadica had some good links on this earlier: http://www.jihadica.com/aq-claims-bin-nayif-attack/

Really, it’s just a different take on a continuing problem. It will be a combination of intelligence and technology, with the emphasis on intel. For 6 plus years we’ve literally seen every conceivable way to hide a bomb in the vincinity of a road in Iraq. Everyone…. and then someone would come up with some other bizarre way to do it. But eventually with the change to a COIN based strategy, sourced by “the Surge” we got better intel, on where, even better, who was emplacing them. Tied into that was the massive development (and funding) of anti-IED techs. Anyone remember when we were using toy car/robot controllers to set of IED’s early? The end product (or better said current products) are a long way from that, not to mention the upgrade in vehicles, most particulary the MRAP.

I bring this up because the fight against suicide bombers, of any stripe and method, will follow the same course. Better techs that SUPPORT and partially SUPPLEMENT better intel on methods and people. So while this may be a new twist, or new orifice, on an old problem, we should have an idea how to deal with this.

A final note, while the method of “delivery” got the stories written, the relationship this Saudi minister had with these terrorists and his one-on-one contact and rehabilitation is fascinating study.

To those who seek our demise, do not look to Washington and the partisanship that portrays the weakness of leadership pervaded in - racisism - as its theme promoted by a sitting Black President seeking division rather than unity whether by making unsubstantiated remarks on behalf of a Black Harvard professor pal who has been referred to as simply an “elitist” versus cop - from our perspective - a police officer and a first responder when we make our desperate calls to 911 - and a President and administration that chooses not to rebuke a former Democractic President for his unjustified remarks referring to America as “racist” and you Mr. President, a Black man having been voted into office by Americans of all color and ethnicity, and Congress finding it necessary to go out of its way to chastize the South Carolina Congressman who blurts out what is a louder and louder whisper heard in the pews….but not of James Carter who is apparently a bigot referred to by so many and nothing less….

….but to those seeking our demise, look to Main Street USA which is not squeamish when it comes to standing tall against the “Brutes of Tehran” and the “KGB Putinites” as I refer to them….The bullies who willingly spill rich perfsian blood on the streets of Tehran an have the bllod of our soldier stained on their hands….

….Americans standing tall in growing numbers who see an Administration failing in its public healthcare promotions and chooses to allow distractions even at the detriment of our inherent solidarity for - unlike the subversive James Carter who met with Syrians behind closed doors and only God knows what he shared with those thugs and my calling for a Congressional Hearing to censure not the distinguished Congressman from South Carolina, but James Carter who chooses to use his former title to divide our nation and to depict his outright hatred towards Israel…a people with covenant to the Lord!

We as a people have less and less confidence in the “fiat” dollars being printed and trillions and trillions in deficit spending with certain promised inflation and growing unemployemnt numbers and an administration whether Democrat or Republican or Congress who truly knows what a gallon of milk costs.

We do have confidence in our Constitution which is being besieged by our very own “entrusted” government and we have confidence in the commitment of those who serve our public interests as devoted public servants whether at DoD, NSA, State and other agencies whereby we know that whatever peril we are placed in by such incompetencies potrayed by the career “politician” who must have term limits, we are a strong nation of good and most charitable people, however with the fortitude that our Right to bear arms will be used against any foe including those who choose to subvert the principles laid forth by the keen insight of our forefathers.

Gd Bless our beloved America which is a beacon of hope to so, so many who do not choose to huddle inside a van and illegally enter this country, but people with hopes to flee oppression by applying and waiying for two years or more to secure a visa and willingly and with pride take oath of citizenship not snubbing the American flag, but rather proudly waving it for no other nation has been conceived in Liberty and dedicated for all!

Christopher Tingus
64 Whidah Drive
Harwich, MA 02645 USA
chris.tingus@gmail.com

You close with Miranda from Act V of the Tempest. I wonder — absurdly serious, no doubt — if Prospero, from Act III,scene 3 might capture the attitude of our adversaries to many of our earnest efforts:

And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions: they are now in my power;
And in these fits I leave them.

Yours for the Bard,

Phil

Now, I’m sure you believe such cheese carriage is covered by one of those Rights you speak of so often. A truly wicked question.

“U.S. State Department to give El Salvador anal and vaginal scanning systems”? - Would this be a dual use capability?

WOW! The fight against terrorism enters a “hole” new realm!