Obama Party Time for Most, Serious Work for Security

"Security tight as Obama takes oath"
CNN (January 20, 2009)

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama was sworn in Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States with no major security problems, but authorities are looking into an unspecified threat to disrupt the inauguration.

"The FBI is investigating two 'streams of intelligence' suggesting the Somalia-based terrorist organization Al Shabaab may have been plotting an attack timed to coincide with the event, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a joint threat advisory obtained by CNN...."

Between crazed Muslims, white supremacists, and assorted lunatics, the people responsible for security in Washington, D.C., today had their hands full. (Don't misunderstand that sentence: I know that not all Muslims are terrorists, just as all white people aren't white supremacists.)

And, I'm really glad that the king-sized street party (pun intended) went off without unpleasantness.

By the way, if you haven't heard of Al Shabaab, I'm not surprised. It's an outfit in southern Somalia, and was just another bunch of terrorists/militants/whatever, until pirates in northern Somalia hijacked a Saudi tanker. Al Shabaab did not approve.

More posts about Barack Obama's inauguration day:

• "President Barack Obama: An American Made History Today"
  (January 20, 2009)