Here is the most recent photo of the Al Qaeda terrorist Abdul Abdulmutallab.
This sick minded Muslim fanatic was using PETN explosive and a liquid oxidizer to ignite it and if done properly this bomb could have easily brought down the plane killing all 243 passengers and crew. This could have been a disaster and it would have been had the bomb ignited properly.
The boyish looking Abdulmutallab didn’t care who died, not even himself, because he felt he was on a mission for Allah. Well, I’ve got a mission too, and that mission is to see this scum die in custody and the sooner the better. Yeah, I want him dead – is that a bad thing to say? Anybody who plots the mass killing of innocent humans, especially my fellow Americans, has sealed his own fate. It’s now just another case of dead man walking.
I want us as an angry nation to dispatch with extreme prejudice every terrorists we can lay our hands on and I don’t really care how we do it. No more push-over America. No more toothless tiger…we need to get deadly serious and start knocking these guys off before their jihad gains anymore traction.
There should be no question now that Abdulmutallab was working with Al Qaeda, and quite possibly this contact originated with people he met in Yemen. The proof is in the nature of the explosive he was using. PETN is not an easy explosive to obtain and the last time it was used on an aircraft was by Richard Reed the shoe bomber.
Reed was a petty criminal and below average intelligence with almost no assets. Abdulmutallab was from a rich family and was well educated and was referred to as the “Pope” because of his high moral character and his desire to adhere to the strict doctrine found within the Koran. Their faith and the teachings in the Koran was apparently the only thing these two would-be killers had in common before being recruited by Al Qaeda.
From the Sunni side: Hassan, a friend of mine, describes these Muslim terrorists as “fools who do not understand the Koran”. He is a Sunni Muslim and Hassan says the terrorist bombers must be weak-minded individuals who don’t know their Koran. He thinks they were manipulated by devious people with a hidden agenda. “They are liars” and he said this also makes them blasphemers because of how they are abusing the Holy Koran. Hassan shows genuine anger and frustration while he is telling me this. His face is red and his voice is shaking.
Hassan wonders why people higher up in his faith have not come down stronger on these blasphemers and liars? “Clearly they are misusing the Koran for their own twisted political purposes” then he says sternly “I would have no problem killing a Muslim if I thought they were on the wrong side”. He hates terrorists with a passion because he understands only too well how much grief and suspicion they have caused people like him, a Muslim who was born in America to parents who support the United States. Hassan can’t board an airliner without feeling like he being watched. It makes him heartsick.
We both agreed that Abdulmutallab’s life should be fofeited for what he tried to do. To us, it makes no sense to give him life in prison merely because he failed to kill. Afterall, killing was his most sincere premeditated intent and he tried his very best. If he had succeeded hundreds of lives would have been over in a firey explosion in the sky.
Here’s a thought: Why hasn’t the Congress of the United States passed a law demanding a swift, sure death penalty for any acts of terrorism on US soil?
Hey, if it was up to the average America these killers and would-be-killers would be put to death in public hangings or worse. This I have no doubt. So where’s the law on this one, why don’t we have something being proposed by now? We should have had such a law about 1 day after 9/11.
Here are all the federal offenses that call for the death penalty:
Murder related to the smuggling of aliens.
18 U.S.C. 32-34 Destruction of aircraft, motor vehicles, or related facilities resulting in death.
18 U.S.C. 36 Murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting.
18 U.S.C. 37 Murder committed at an airport serving international civil aviation.
18 U.S.C. 115(b)(3)
[by cross-reference
to 18 U.S.C. 1111] Retaliatory murder of a member of the immediate family of law enforcement officials.
18 U.S.C. 241,
242, 245, 247 Civil rights offenses resulting in death.
18 U.S.C. 351
[by cross-reference
to 18 U.S.C. 1111] Murder of a member of Congress, an important executive official, or a Supreme Court Justice.
18 U.S.C. 794 Espionage.
18 U.S.C. 844(d), (f), (i) Death resulting from offenses involving transportation of explosives, destruction of government property, or destruction of property related to foreign or interstate commerce.
18 U.S.C. 924(i) Murder committed by the use of a firearm during a crime of violence or a drug-trafficking crime.
18 U.S.C. 930 Murder committed in a Federal Government facility.
18 U.S.C. 1091 Genocide.
18 U.S.C. 1111 First-degree murder.
18 U.S.C. 1114 Murder of a Federal judge or law enforcement official.
18 U.S.C. 1116 Murder of a foreign official.
18 U.S.C. 1118 Murder by a Federal prisoner.
18 U.S.C. 1119 Murder of a U.S. national in a foreign country.
18 U.S.C. 1120 Murder by an escaped Federal prisoner already sentenced to life imprisonment.
18 U.S.C. 1121 Murder of a State or local law enforcement official or other person aiding in a Federal investigation; murder of a State correctional officer.
18 U.S.C. 1201 Murder during a kidnapping.
18 U.S.C. 1203 Murder during a hostage taking.
18 U.S.C. 1503 Murder of a court officer or juror.
18 U.S.C. 1512 Murder with the intent of preventing testimony by a witness, victim, or informant.
18 U.S.C. 1513 Retaliatory murder of a witness, victim, or informant.
18 U.S.C. 1716 Mailing of injurious articles with intent to kill or resulting in death.
18 U.S.C. 1751
[by cross-reference
to 18 U.S.C. 1111] Assassination or kidnapping resulting in the death of the President or Vice President.
18 U.S.C. 1958 Murder for hire.
18 U.S.C. 1959 Murder involved in a racketeering offense.
18 U.S.C. 1992 Willful wrecking of a train resulting in death.
18 U.S.C. 2113 Bank-robbery-related murder or kidnapping.
18 U.S.C. 2119 Murder related to a carjacking.
18 U.S.C. 2245 Murder related to rape or child molestation.
18 U.S.C. 2251 Murder related to sexual exploitation of children.
18 U.S.C. 2280 Murder committed during an offense against maritime navigation.
18 U.S.C. 2281 Murder committed during an offense against a maritime fixed platform.
18 U.S.C. 2332 Terrorist murder of a U.S. national in another country.
18 U.S.C. 2332a Murder by the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
18 U.S.C. 2340 Murder involving torture.
18 U.S.C. 2381 Treason.
21 U.S.C. 848(e) Murder related to a continuing criminal enterprise or related murder of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement officer.
49 U.S.C. 1472-1473 Death resulting from aircraft hijacking.
I want to see the death penalty for an attempted terrorist act on an airliner, it shouldn’t matter if they were successful or not. The only thing that matters is the intent and horrendous consquences if they were successful. That deserves the death penalty and this death penalty should not have the same appeal process as other cases. They should be given no more than 12 months before sentence is carried out.