Further to me saying last week's New York bombing was the FBI's biggest stuffup since the Boston Marathon Bombing - it has now been revealed the New York bomber's father told the FBI, in 2014, that Ahmad Khan Rahami was a terrorist. But the FBI said Ahmad Khan Rahami was "clean" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/20/ahmad-khan-rahamis-father-told-fbi-that-his-son-was-a-terrorist/

The article continues. The father "contacted the FBI two years ago claiming his son was a terrorist, but the agency determined that he was "clean" and did not place him on a watchlist.

...“Two years ago I go to the FBI because my son was doing really bad, OK?” he said. “But they check almost two months, they say, ‘He’s OK, he’s clean, he’s not a terrorist.’ I say OK.

“Now they say he is a terrorist. I say OK," he added, speaking to reporters outside of the fried chicken restaurant he owns in Elizabeth, New Jersey."

This is as bad as the father of the Underwear Bomber warning the CIA some years ago about his son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab#Awareness_by_U.S._intelligence but that is another story about US agencies too large and bureaucratic to use their oversize databases.

Pete

The FBI have another stuff up to perplex them:
Rahani also left a second bomb – but that one, police believe, was accidentally disabled by would-be thieves.

Police sources said a pair of well-dressed men spotted a suitcase lying on West 27th street, five blocks from the successful bomb.

They took the bomb out of the bag and then placed it in a rubbish bin before stealing the suitcase. By removing it, officials say the unidentified thief accidentally disabled the device. “Who in this world finds a pressure cooker with a phone and just takes the bag?” a police source asked.

Police may charge the pair or recommend the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Ya bringing out the cynic in me nick

Previous winners of the Medal of Freedom include:

- Head of the CIA, George Tenet, for his success in Not predicting 9/11

- General Tommy Franks for "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq

- US "Governor" of Iraq, Paul Bremer, for sacking the entire Iraqi Army in 2003 thereby starting the Iraqi Civil War. As the Gift That Keeps On Giving, sacked officers of the Iraqi Army now basically head ISIS, BTW.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tenet#Later_life

Cheers

Pete

Plant,

Are you suggesting that the correct US police response should be to lock up any Muslim that someone thinks is a terrorist?

A tough question Shadow.

If the guy's father reckoned sonny had terrorist tendencies then retrospectively it doesn't look good in electoral politics or security.

It's in the finest traditions of Stuff Ups.
Mitchell ... was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing Army and Navy leaders of an "almost treasonable administration of the national defense" for investing in battleships instead of aircraft carriers.
Oz rejected the Owen gun and the aircraft black-box inventions then later had to use them.