Boris Badunov Bombs Detroit

If the Detroit bomber had somehow pulled off what ever he thought he was doing, it would have been a tragedy. A great blow against the empire--No. The bomber nearly blew off his dick and put himself on fire with materials allegedly supplied by Al Qaeda's master bomb maker. This is getting cartoonish and we should not buy into this and allow Al Qaeda some propaganda victory by implying this stuff is really serious. We should walk softly and carry a big stick as the old President used to say.

Al Qaeda's web site said they would avenge the raids in Yemen, where 30 of their cadre were killed and another 17 seized.

The suspected bomber, Farouk Umar Abdulmuttallab, told the FBI he was provided the explosives by two top leaders of Al Qaeda. Those leaders have been identified as two Guatanamo detainees released by the Bush Administration and who were sent back to Saudi Arabia to participate in an art therapy class as part of their rehabilitation. The leaders were part of Cheney's raiders, the group of detainees sent back to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Yemen rehabilitation programs was dismantled because all its graduates just re-joined Al Qaeda.

But let's get real for a moment. Super geek Nate Silver at www.fivethirtyeight.com yesterday did a piece on the odds of actually being blown up on an airplane by terrorists. The chances are beyond miniscule. At this point, Al Qaeda looks like a bunch of losers trying to get attention. The Daily Mail in the UK ran a piece of how 35 disenchanted Brit Muslims have slipped back to training camps for Al Qaeda and we are told more plane plots are on the way.

At this point Al Qaeda numbers about 600 people--110 in Afghanistan, about 400 in Pakistan and the rest in Yemen.

Is this reason to panic and be scared? The country who defeated the Nazi war machine and brought the Soviet empire to its knees. I just don't get the fear. I like to think of Bin Laden and Zahawari as Sean Connery and Michael Caine in A Man Who Would Be King, convincing locals they are immortals until the day Sean Connery bleeds. That day will come for the "Sheik". How can you take a group seriously that is named after Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? What's next--an affiliate named The Matrix?

I received an e-mail this morning concerning the need for the United States to combat the ideology of islamic terrorism. What ideology? Nihilism. I'm sorry I never could get that into Al Qaeda--just as I never could get into blowing up jetliners and toppling large buildings. They won't stop until they have succeeded with their ideology. Oh, what is it now--restoring the caliphate? Or are we at the phase of kicking the Crusaders out of the Middle East or maybe eradicating the State of Israel? And when they blow themselves up--they will receive 70 white raisins in paradise. It would be nice if one of these numbskulls actually learned to translate the Koran. It might save them the problem of self-destruction.