(Fox News) Yemeni police arrested a young woman who was a computer engineering student on suspicion of mailing a pair of powerful bombs to attack the United States. Yemeni police are continuing to search for the terrorists responsible for mailing a pair of powerful bombs. Those bombs were powerful enough to take down airplanes, according to officials Sunday. The young woman's mother was detained as well. Investigators were hunting the impoverished Mideast country for more conspirators. U.S. officials included in that group the same bombmaker suspected of designing the explosive for a failed bombing on a Detroit-bound airliner last Christmas. Authorities were also looking at two language institutions the plotters may have been associated with. The explosives, addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, were pulled off airplanes in England and the United Arab Emirates early Friday morning, touching off a tense search for other devices. More details emerged Saturday about the plot that exploited security gaps in the worldwide shipping system.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he believes the explosive device found in central England was intended to detonate on the plane, while British Home Secretary Theresa May said the bomb was powerful enough to take down the aircraft. The U.S. official said the second device that was found in Dubai was thought to be similarly potent. However, it still wasn't clear whether the bombs, which officials said were wired to cell phones, timers and power supplies, could have been detonated remotely while the planes were in the air, or when the packages were halfway around the world in the U.S. Still, the fact that they made it onto airplanes showed that nearly a decade since 9/11, terrorists continue to probe and find security vulnerabilities. Part of the reason why we are still having a problem with terrorists is due to lax security on the part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. We have open borders. With our pourous borders being open, terrorists can sneak into this country at any time.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told reporters that the United States and United Arab Emirates had provided intelligence that helped identify the woman suspected of mailing the packages. The 22 year old Hanan al-Samawi is a student at the University of San'a, said Yemeni rights activist Abdel-Rahman Barman. Her 45 year old mother was arrested with her, said Barman, of the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms.
There are a number of ways the United States can fight Islamic terrorism. First of all, America needs to close its borders at certain checkpoints. Secondly, we need to keep tight security at the airports. Thirdly, we need to make the Middle East irrelevant to the interests of the United States. In other words, we need to stop doing business with the Middle East eventually. We need to stop importing our oil from the Middle East. I believe the United States can find alternate ways to meet our fuel demands. We have a government that hasn't made good on trying to promote nuclear energy, for example to meet our energy needs as well as they won't allow for the U.S. to drill for oil in other places such as Nebraska and Utah, for example. We haven't built a refinery in over 30 years. We have enough energy resources where we can be energy independent. Why do we depend on the Middle East for our oil? Why does the United States conduct business with the United Arab Emirates? I can remember in 2006 during the Bush administration when George W. Bush was going to sell America's ports to Dubai which is in the United Arab Emirates. The terrorists that hijacked our airplanes and attacked America were from the Middle East. Why does our elected elite have such a cozy relationship with the Middle East? If we as a country want to marginalize the terrorist threat in this country, we need to stop conducting business with the Middle East. The United States has enough resources where it can produce its own goods. We don't need to depend on the Middle East for our oil. Many U.S. oil companies have business ties in the Middle East. Follow the money trail. It's all about money.
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