{"id":6034,"date":"2010-05-05T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2010-05-05T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T16:37:27","slug":"faisal-shahzad-not-the-shirt-taker-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/05\/faisal-shahzad-not-the-shirt-taker-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Faisal Shahzad, not the Shirt-taker off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dodged a Bullet.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, I can not say that of the last instance of Failed Islamic Terrorism &#8212; the &#8220;Captain Underpants&#8221; caper, because that was a case of &#8220;Can&#8217;t Hit the Broad Side of a Barn&#8221; and mostly just showed the infeasibility of a particular terrorist tactic (though, I guess it holds a particular attraction as it&#8217;s the nearest re-creation of 9\/11 available.)\u00c2\u00a0 With Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s botched attempt, I am back to my long-held thought: &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised we haven&#8217;t seen this already&#8221; &#8212; the &#8220;Car Bomb&#8221; is an oldie.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, I may be missing something here &#8212; it&#8217;s not like I am ever going to sit down and sort through the logistics to this end.\u00c2\u00a0 The man apparently took classes in Pakistan that lead up to this attack.\u00c2\u00a0 He was not at the Top of His Class, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that he is apparently co-operating in full.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a ponder of some lines of Psychology.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember a &#8220;This American Life&#8221; episode with Israeli Interrogators asking failed Suicide Bombers, and marking one confession of Remorse as completely insincere and another as sincere.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s a thought.\u00c2\u00a0 It may be that had he managed to escape, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zGKP_mnOONI\">as we see he didn&#8217;t<\/a>, he would have had a harder time to answer for his Great Failure.<br \/>\n&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=M2Y1YTdkNmI0MGYxZGZlN2RhYmI4ZDg3YTI4ZGRmMTI=\">Did he have his heart in this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article7114495.ece\">Worth noting<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought I should call 911, but my English is not very good and I had  no  credit left on my phone, so I walked over to Lance, who has the T-shirt  stall next to mine, and told him. He said we shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t call 911.  Immediately  he alerted a police officer near by,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr Niasse, who is originally  from  Senegal and who has been a vendor in Times Square for about eight years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Muslim Immigrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dodged a Bullet.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, I can not say that of the last instance of Failed Islamic Terrorism &#8212; the &#8220;Captain Underpants&#8221; caper, because that was a case of &#8220;Can&#8217;t Hit the Broad Side of a Barn&#8221; and mostly just showed the infeasibility of a particular terrorist tactic (though, I guess it holds a particular attraction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6039,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}