Just Wow

clipped from www.qando.net So you’d need come “articulable facts” which could “reasonably warrant a determination” that the guy  may be a terrorist based on his behavior. Well let’s see. His dad, a former minister in Nigeria, informed the US embassy there that his son had been radicalized (the dad obviously had a reason for concern). US intelligence had been following him for a while, dubbing him “the Nigerian” (one assumes there was a reason). He was on a watch list (one assumes there was a reason). He had been banned from Britain (yup, one assumes there was a reason). The British intelligence service had identified him to our intelligence agencies in 2008 as a potential threat (sigh, uh, yeah, reason). He’d just visited Yemen, an al Qaeda hotbed (given the first 5, one can reasonably guess at the reason). He bought a one-way ticket to the United States in Africa through Europe (red flag 1). He paid cash (red flag 2). He checked no luggage (red flag 3). Just wow.