I was not going to write any more today, but… a Nigerian man who claims to be tied to Al Qaeda tried to blow up a plane landing in Detroit but the explosive failed to go off as planned and he was immediately subdued by passengers. The explosive device was fairly sophisticated and the individual in question was already on counterterrorism lists, meaning that he should not have been on a plane to begin with and that security should have done a better job screening for this explosive device. Remember that the 9-11 planes were hijacked with box cutters and now, in 2009, this man was able to get on a plane with an explosive device, from a country that Al Qaeda is known to operate in. In time for Christmas, regular people stopped this would-be suicide bomber from killing the 278 passengers on board… it is a slight mixture of a Christmas miracle and the courage of individuals that made this possible. If only the current administration was as serious about stopping terrorists as it is about treating them more nicely.

-AG