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Foiled Clinton Murder Plot Shows that Islamists Aren’t Impressed with Who We Elected President

Jimmie | September 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

Wow, that’s one big bullet we dodged.

RADICAL Islamist al-Shabaab militants linked to al-Qa’ida and based in Somalia plotted to kill US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her trip to Africa last month, it was disclosed yesterday.

A planned series of bomb attacks set to take place in Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya, while Mrs Clinton was there – one in the hotel where she was staying – was foiled at the last minute, media reports, citing senior security officials, said.

“Al-Qa’ida wanted to strike at the heart of Nairobi (while Mrs Clinton was here),” the senior security official was quoted as saying, adding that Kenyan authorities intercepted communications between the plotters in war-ravaged Somalia and their operatives in Nairobi, which has a large emigre Somali population.

Five suspected al-Shabaab terrorists were arrested, including a man believed to be a Somali carrying a Danish passport. The four other suspects seized, including a woman, had what appeared to be false Kenyan identity documents, according to the reports.

I shudder to think what our reaction would have been had al-Qaeda’s puppets been successful. I don’t imagine even the dovish (at least on paper) President Obama could have stayed his hand. Obviously, the belief that the Islamists would be nicer to us if only we didn’t elect a Warmonger-in-Chief isn’t held by any actual Islamists.

We’re just a few days shy of the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Even though we’ve made ourselves demonstrably safer here and we’ve taken huge chunks out of the leadership of al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups, there is no doubt that Islamism itself is far from dead. President Bush was right when he said we’d be fighting the Islamists for a very long time. They certainly don’t intend on merely giving up because we elected a man who will go to the most oppressive Muslim leaders with soft words. They’re in it for the long haul, regardless of whether they win or lose. We would be well advised to remember that.

(via Infidels are Cool who points out that perhaps the President’s magical ability to make friends simply by being President isn’t all it was cracked up to be.)