Isolated incidents?

Obama and his incompetent homeland security team dismissed the Fort Hood massacre, and are dismissing the Christmas terrorist attempt, as "isolated incidents".

Really?

The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.

The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI's interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad training during interrogation by the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by Mr. al-Awlaki.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/29/awlaki-personally-blessed-detroit-attack/

Doesn't that sound "connected" rather than "isolated"?