Zargar founded the Al Umar Mujahideen, a Pakistani terrorist group. Al Umar Mujahideen is a member of the umbrella terrorist group Lashkar-e-Omar, which was responsible for the Pearl murder as well as several terrorist attacks in Pakistan against Americans.
The last 10 years have taught us hard lessons. Lessons about what happens when airline security is so lax that Arab men enter airplanes with box cutters; what happens when immigration standards are so ridiculous that men with terrorist connections are left to wander around our country on expired visas; what happens when political correctness trumps obvious suspicions about radicalism.
Thousands of our dead attest to these lessons.
But President Obama has not learned these lessons. So even though we have faced the same threat for 10 years -- even though exactly 10 years after al-Qaida terrorists hijacked Indian Flight IC-814, an al-Qaida terrorist attempted to blow up an airliner headed to Detroit -- President Obama still wants to try the Clinton administration terror strategies. Strategies like civilian trials for terrorists. Strategies like shipping terrorists to American prisons. Strategies like reading terrorists their rights on the battlefield, outlawing harsh interrogation methods, blindly ignoring commonality of interest between terrorist groups and appeasing terrorists with the rhetoric of Western sacrifice.
Will it take another decade like the last decade to learn our lesson?