BULLETIN:  ANOTHER TERROR ATTEMPT HERE – AT 10:30 A.M. ET:  From Fox:

PORTLAND, Ore. – Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.

The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him.

Yelling "Allahu Akbar!" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- Mohamud tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

COMMENT:  A great success by our security forces.  But another close call.  The guy actually pulled the trigger.  And had he not been intercepted earlier, hundreds might have been killed.

We have been so lucky so far.  And we have been blessed by the kind of effective security disparaged and ridiculed by the far left.  But there is a law of averages.  The enemy – and it is an enemy – only has to be lucky once. 

Maybe this incident will wake up some people on our flakey West Coast, where voters went to the polls on election day and elected the same liberal crowd that has trouble seeing the reality of what we face.

November 27, 2010