SUSPECT: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made statements to the FBI that mirrored al Qaeda’s claims, an intelligence official says. (U.S. Marshals Service via Associated Press)Congressman Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, said Thursday he agrees with White House National Security Adviser James Jones’ assessment that the Obama administration’s intelligence agencies failed twice in detecting early warning signs to stop two recent attacks — the mass shooting at Fort Hood, then the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing.
“It’s about time,” Mr. Wilson told The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show this morning. Mr. Wilson served in the National Guard for 28 years and has two sons who served in Iraq. “It’s so clear to me we’re in a global war on terrorism.”
He also said President Obama appears to be coming around to realizing the country remains at war against terrorism.
The White House is expected to release a report Thursday on the failed Christmas Day bombing on a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, boarded the flight with undetected explosives. The suspect’s father had warned officials at the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that he feared his son was being radicalized.
In the Fort Hood case, Army officials had expressed concern about the behavior of the suspected shooter Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. Witnesses reported hearing him yell “Allah Akbar” during the attack.
Joseph Weber is a congressional reporter, his first job upon coming to Washington in 1992. Mr. Weber joined The Washington Times in 2002 as a metro desk editor and ran the section for several years, working on such stories as the Virginia Tech massacre, the Supreme Court case on the District’s handgun law, the D.C. snipers and the 2008 presidential ...
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