Anybody Thought To Ask Revolution Muslim About This?

Seriously, since there is every reason to suspect that the merry band of Revolution Muslim dawah-pushers who were hanging out in Times Square on the same afternoon two blocks south of Faisal Shahzad's failed bomb attack may have been tipped off to expect to film a jihad finale to their efforts, can we assume that the "senior U.S. officials" mentioned below might also have been alerted to this information bite and followed up?

Or should we maybe drop them an email or something? Just in case the new shahid wannabe the Pakitalibanis have sent actually knows how to detonate explosives?

EXCLUSIVE: New Pakistani Taliban Operative Feared Inside U.S. After Times Square Failure
By Mike Levine & Jennifer Griffin
Published October 14, 2010
FoxNews.com

Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States to launch a second attack, sources tell Fox News. Authorities, however, know very little about the potential operative or any possible plot.

"[We] don't know who it is and don't know where it is," one source said. "We know the guy's here, but don't know anything about him."

Based on the intelligence, authorities believe the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, would have directed the individual to attempt another Times Square-style operation, but not necessarily in New York City.

A senior intelligence official said the threat stream's lack of specificity makes it nearly impossible for the counterterrorism community to defend against such an attack. Any possible threat, however, does not seem to be imminent, with a senior counterterrorism official saying he was "unaware" of any "imminent threats" against the U.S. homeland.

Nevertheless, the Pakistani Taliban has been looking to make up for its previous failure. Authorities believe the subject of the latest intelligence would use "a similar mechanism" and the "same modus operandi" employed by 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad in May, mostly "because it's easily accessible here," as one source put it.

In the months leading up to his attack, Shahzad purchased fertilizer, propane gas, fireworks and other components from stores in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. But the bomb he ultimately built and packed inside a sport utility vehicle did not detonate properly.

If someone successfully set off such a bomb, the effects would be "devastating," according to federal prosecutors. In June, FBI agents built and tested a device identical to Shahzad's, except this time they made sure the bomb actually detonated.

"Had the bombing played out as Shahzad had so carefully planned, the lives of numerous residents and visitors of the city would have been lost and countless others would have been forever traumatized," federal prosecutors said in court documents filed in the Shahzad case two weeks ago. "This is to say nothing of the significant economic and emotional impact a successful attack would have had on the entire nation."

Authorities are describing the latest threat as "credible but not specific," and they are "very nervous," according to the sources. It's unclear exactly when or how the intelligence was obtained, but one source said it was "corroborated" by authorities. Others were unable to say the intelligence had been corroborated.

"In many cases, intelligence we get ends up washing out," said the senior counterterrorism official, who would not specifically discuss or even confirm the latest intelligence.

It's also unclear when or how the operative would have entered the United States, but the recent intelligence says he would have been sent from Pakistan's tribal areas, where only months earlier associates of the Pakistani Taliban trained Shahzad to build and detonate bombs, according to the senior intelligence official.

More of the same here.

Stealth Jihad Rides Coattails of Failed Jihad Attacks

In the "no good deed goes unpunished" department, consider this: Alert airline passengers, street vendors, and police saved thousands of lives by preventing two disastrous Jihad attacks from happening, one over Detroit on Christmas and the other in Times Square on May 1. According to this FOX News report, the death toll would have been in the thousands.

Times Square Bomb 'Would Have Killed Thousands,' FBI Test Shows

Published July 20, 2010
NYPost.com

A secret FBI test of a correctly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it "would have killed thousands of people" if it had been made to explode as terrorists had intended, law-enforcement sources told The New York Post.

Had he built the Times Square device the way he had originally intended to, terrorist Faisal Shahzad, would have turned his SUV and nearby vehicles into a fatal spray of razor-sharp fragments and transformed building windows into glass guillotines hurtling to the streets, cutting down hundreds of people walking by.

The results were discovered after feds composed the type of bomb Shahzad set out to make -- with the exact components he had initially intended to use -- and exploded it in Pennsylvania last month.

"It would have been the biggest thing ever to happen in this country since Sept. 11," another source said.

"It definitely would have been bigger than [the 1995] Oklahoma City" bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people, the source said. "There would have been a lot of casualties."

At the end of June, the FBI built its replica of the bomb to test its destructive force, sources said. The results of the explosive test were sobering -- showing that Shahzad was on track to becoming the biggest individual mass murderer in U.S. history, several sources said.

The increasingly obvious irony is this: Had either or both of these attacks succeeded, plans for the Ground Zero mosque would have been, at the very least, quietly shelved until it was determined that we had all forgotten. The fact that the mosque is on track to be built now sadly illustrates how short that time can be.

As the violent jihad continues to fail in this country, the stealth jihad advances -- and the question becomes whether it will require success at the former to awaken our snoring citizens to the encroachments of the latter. This is a devil's bargain we should have never got ourselves stuck in.