I’ve moved this vitally important news story from my “News Lit Up” page [Pippi's Clipboard] to a blog post of its own to establish a chronology of news about what was not only a terrifying event for the passengers and crew but a real turning point in that we have courageous and LIVE witnesses who, through their testimonies, might eventually help us to gain more insight on passenger psychology and 9/11.
Companion Posts:
Chronicle of Financial Greed and Megalomania
Occupy The Awakening & Ride the Rising Wave of Infinite Consciousness
Hunt For Justice -or- Bagging the Collective Parasites
Is A Showdown in Progress in Washington D.C. and Abroad?
Wikileaks, Whistleblowers, and Dismantling Psychopathic Empire in the 21st Century
Israel: Developing Pressure on the Bully in the Bloc
2010 And Beyond: In The Midst of Nightmares, The Awakening Struggles for A Voice
Dysfunctional Tragedy Inherent in the Function of War
Blackwater or Xe….: A Skunk By Any Other Name Smells Just As Stinky
Financial Tyranny: Defeating the Greatest Cover-Up of All Time
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Added (all emphases mine unless indicated otherwise):
05/12/12
Chron:
Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists
“It hasn’t always been this way.”
“Saudi Arabia, the one-time home of Osama bin Laden, failed to spot and stop the 15 Saudi-born hijackers of the 19 who carried out the September 2001 terror attacks. Questions remain whether two Saudi citizens who had at least indirect links with two of the hijackers were reporting to Saudi government officials. U.S. law enforcement officials accused the Saudi government of failing to help adequately in investigations of the al-Qaida attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and Hezbollah‘s bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex, which killed 19 U.S. servicemen in 1996.”
This attempt to patch together some sort of disjointed “rush transcript” to cover their butts would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic. 
05/08/12 Guardian UK:‘Underwear bomber’ was working for the CIA [the newest "underwear" agent]
“A would-be ‘underwear bomber’ involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.”
“The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.”
05/07/12 KLTV:
US: CIA thwarts new al-Quaida underwear bomb plot “WASHINGTON (AP) – The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.”
“U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also built to be used in a passenger’s underwear but contained a more refined detonation system.”
12/16/12
Las Vegas Sun:
Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison
“Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who has said he was on a suicide mission for al-Qaida, was the same defiant man who four months ago pleaded guilty to all charges related to Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He seemed to relish his mandatory sentence and defended his actions as rooted in the Muslim holy book, the Quran.”
‘Mujahideen are proud to kill in the name of God. And that is exactly what God told us to do in the Quran,’ he said. ‘Today is a day of victory.’ “
Very sad to see youth so brainwashed by extremist elements. BTW, has “God” gone terrorist on us? Lloyd Blankfein told congress “I’m doing God’s work”, as a response to the incredibly vile global financial terror with pillage and plunder by his company, along with several cohort global banksters, they wreaked on this planet. George Bush and Don Rumsfeld were convinced that “God” told them to go to war! Exactly which “God” are they all listening to, ummm?
05/20/10
Intelligence Director to resign “National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said Thursday he is resigning, ending a tumultuous 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and turf wars among the country’s spy agencies.”
05/18/10 AP: Congress says US repeated 9/11 slips in Christmas plot “Despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the intelligence community after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the nation’s security system showed some of the same failures when it allowed a would-be bomber to slip aboard an airliner, congressional investigators said Tuesday.”
“The congressional review is more stark than the Obama administration’s report. It lays much of the blame at the feet of the National Counterterrorism Center, which Congress created to be the primary agency in charge of analyzing terrorism intelligence.”
One must question exacty why after nine years is the “keystone cops” mentality still mumbling ad nauseum in politics and media? I suggest that neither event was focused on the security of the American people but rather on drumming up support to achieve global hegemony. Period point.
And…why has there been a media blackout on a follow up to that “sharp-dressed” man that Kurt and Lori described and that Federal Agents were finally tracing? [see below]. That one piece of evidence that would shed an entirely more Truthful light on this event is the piece seems to have fallen into a black hole.
02/14/10
Kurt and Lori Haskells Blog Update on the Cameraman and Man in Orange
02/03/10
WSWS Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber“A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.”
“The hearing was reported in a brief article posted January 27 on the web site of the Detroit News, headlined, “Terror Suspect Kept Visa to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation.”
C-SPAN Senate Homeland Security Hearing on Aviation Security and Northwest Flight 253
01/29/10 Free Press Com Northwest bomb attempt: Response was botched in aftermath of Flight 253 landing “Richard Bloom, director of terrorism, intelligence and security at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz., said the notion that the plane ‘went to the gate is almost preposterous.’ It’s a violation of common standard operating procedure, it’s a violation of common security rules, regulations and directives … a violation of common sense,’ he said.“
01/27/10
01/24/10
Kurt and Lori’s Blog “OMFG. Cannot even believe the article below. I think I may have fallen over if I had been standing when I read this article. A woman posted a link to this article in comments on my blog, and I clicked on it. Most of the article has nothing to do with Flight 253. Which is interesting too. Why is this not total breaking news?????.”
The Haskell’s are referring to this:
ABC News Story: Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen “Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria.
Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab ‘did not get cold feet.’ “
This SHOULD be breaking news, and certainly a very PUBLIC APOLOGY should be made to the Haskell’s and anyone else who might have come forward on this important piece of information!
Newsweek Leah Farrall on ‘Lionizing’ al-Qaeda “The lesson of Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan has not been learnt, and it is rapidly becoming the greatest failure of the war on terror: the failure to learn that lionizing al Qaeda only further empowers it. Add this to calls for greater US involvement, especially in a country like Yemen and with the sensitivities this entails, and you have the perfect propaganda recruitment recipe for al Qaeda.”
Leah Farrall blog
Newsmeat/AP Bin Laden claims Christmas bombing attempt“The message suggests that bin Laden wants to show he remains in direct command of al-Qaida’s many branches around the world.”
Okay, who turned on the EVP recorder again, hummm?
01/23/10
AP Exclusive The Christmas attack interrogation “Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect in the Christmas Day flight to Detroit tried one last gambit as he was led away: He claimed there was another bomb hidden on the plane he’d just tried to destroy, officials said.”
If true, just who exactly made the call to detain these passengers in the plane for more than an hour knowing what this man said as he was ‘led away”?
01/19/10
AntiWar Com Justin Raimondo The Weird Factor“The Weird Factor seems to intensify whenever there is some significant event in our ongoing ‘war on terrorism,’ or whatever they’re calling it these days. My longtime readers will be familiar with my theory of how this works. Briefly: on Sept. 11, 2001, the impact of those airliners as they hit the Twin Towers sent us careening into an alternative dimension where up is down, right is left, and torture is the American Way – in short we landed in Bizarro World, where we have been trapped ever since. The post-9/11 cognitive shift that heralded our entry into this alternate dimension is amplified around these incidents, and certainly the most recent – the midair antics of the Undie Bomber – underscores the Weird Factor at its absolute weirdest.”
Despite all the critical diversions lately such as the Norway Spiral, Climategate, Bankster Congressional hearings, and Haiti, we must remain focused on getting to the Truth of 9/11 and, as Mr. Raimondo puts it, the “Weird Factor” that has plied us since then. Arriving at Justice and Truth about 9/11/01 will certainly open the path to laser-like action against the perps.
01/17/10
GlobalPost Opinion: Who’s to blame in Washington? “At the heart of the fresh controversy about American security are regulators — the bureaucrats and top appointed politicos running the vast federal regulatory system — who bowed to the human impulse of figuring “it’s someone else’s job.”
“Governments are much better at documenting problems in sanitized reports than telling us who failed to connect the dots and who should be kicked off the team.”
Excellent piece!
01/15/10
RealClearPolitics AP source: US calls for more security for flights “The U.S. increased the number of air marshals on international flights and pressed for more random screening at airports as intelligence officials warned that al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen was continuing to plot attacks on the United States.”
01/14/10
MLive Congress: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s lack of luggage, coat should have been a warning “If we think we’re going to stop the terrorists from getting on planes and trains by technology we are dead wrong, and I don’t want us to be dead,” [NJ Dem Rep. Bill] Pascrell said. “We need to understand that this is a human intervention situation and that we must spend more time at putting boots on the ground and people behind the lines who understand what’s going on, who can know what the enemy is all about.”
Perhaps knowing “what the enemy is all about” might be sought in soul searching what the military-industrial faction of America has been about at least since Eisenhower, namely, Imperialism, Hubris, and Delusions of Grandeur.
TIME The Flight 253 Bomb Plot: What Did Obama Know? “So, in the run-up to the Dec. 25 attempt, it appears that the U.S. intelligence community had warned that there was a new, dangerous type of bomb being deployed by AQAP; that this new bomb could be used against planes; and that AQAP sought to strike the U.S. homeland. Further, the intelligence community knew that a radicalized Nigerian was in Yemen and that his father thought he might be planning some kind of ‘jihad,’ according to reports following the bomb attempt.”
“We still don’t know what, if any of this, the President was told or what he did about it. The Administration has appointed former CIA chief John McLaughlin to investigate the matter further. And that means it may be weeks, if not months, before we can draw final conclusions about Obama’s performance in handling his most important mission — keeping the country safe.”
01/12/10:
Related from:
01/06/10 Independent UK Are planned airport scanners just a scam? “New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested – and found wanting.”
New way to make sensors that detect toxic chemicals.
Physicist Dr. Steven Jones used a simple magnet to extract nanothermitic material from a bag of dust! C’mon!
01/11/10:
GlobalResearchCA Northwest Flight 253: Mounting Evidence of U.S. Complicity in Terrorism: “When nothing adds up, its time we start looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed “the crotch bomber” is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart.”
“We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His “banking” is a cover. Next, what do we know about the two alleged Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the ones who allegedly planned this?“
01/09/10:
Federal Jack Delta Employee Reportedly Fired After Speaking Out About JFK Security Breach “An ex-Delta Airlines employee says he was fired Tuesday after he complained to the company’s CEO that his supervisor ordered him to breach security at JFK International Airport.
The ex-employee says he was ordered by a supervisor on January 2 to evade customs officials and deliver a mysterious suitcase to ramps where it was to be loaded on containers for out-bound flights.”
“Black Star News reporters have heard the taped conversations and reviewed the e-mail messages which describe the sequence of the alleged incident. In the lengthy and detailed message to CEO Richardson [wouldn't that be CEO Richard Anderson?], Amankwah says he complied with Green’s instructions because “Yvonne is a lead agent, and I did not want to be accused of being insubordinate to my superior.”
Related from:
01/03/10 RealClearMarkets Delta CEO: Flight 253 threat despite all security: “CEO Richard Anderson told employees in a recorded message Thursday that airlines have done everything the government has asked since 9/11 to follow advanced passenger notification requirements and heightened screening measures.”
” ‘Having this occur again is disappointing to all of us,’ Anderson said. He added, ‘You can be certain we will make our points very clearly in Washington.’ “
01/08/10:
AlJazeeraEnglish: “Analysts discuss Obama’s plan on US security – 08 Jan 10″
Lori’s Liberal Realm (Haskell family):“But, what really made me angry was reading in print about the details. What easily could have been done if the government employees in charge here would have simply DONE THEIR JOBS and followed proper protocol. The jobs that MY, and most Americans, tax dollars pay. Who knows what they earn, but because they were not doing their job properly, my husband and I were almost killed. In any other job in the country, this would constitute being FIRED. Inexcusable. However, our President is going to do nothing, except have them deal internally with this. Report back to him later. Basically, let things just be swept under the rug until Americans kinda forget what happened and we just go back to how things were before. No biggie, right? 8 years have passed since 9-11, so I guess everyone is doing a great job.”
“Obama didn’t tell intelligence officials to change what they’re doing. Instead, he told them to just do it better, and faster. He left it to them to figure out how.” Why, Mr. President? Because they have done it so well thus far? Don’t you think they need a little bit of freaking guidance?
“Also, everyone, please note that NOTHING was said about the security issues after we landed, nothing at all said about the well dressed man or the man in orange. Still no video. Notice the video from the Newark incident was ALREADY released, shortly after it occurred.”
Bravo, Lori. We The People are not going to let the most important loose ends go floating quietly into the night. We must see the surveillance video from Amsterdam. And regardless of what the President tells us, in the eight years since 9/11 and kaboodles of $$ paid for “security” since, there is no excuse for not lasering in and firing those who still (so-called) could ”not connect the dots.” Our President tells us “The buck stops” with him, but that “buck” traveled through a labryinth of ineptitude (and worse) before reaching him. Inexcusable.
01/07/10:
Obama: ‘Buck Stops With Me’ in Handling Terror Threats
I’m still trying to cling to a spot of hope from President Obama’s administration, but as long as he keeps referring to “Al-Quada” as something other than CIA-MIC-Mossad-ISI connected client(s) of violence and does not own up to the fact that it is our illegal wars growing the terrorist mindset, I have grave doubts.
USA Today Obama to address report on botched terror attack: “The White House on Thursday planned to make public a declassified account of the near-catastrophe on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, and President Barack Obama was to address the nation about its findings and recommendations. Obama was also to reveal new steps intended to thwart terrorist attacks, as he promised earlier in the week.”
“No firings over the December security debacle are expected — for now, at least.”
The last line at least gives an opening to putting the heads of those responsible on the chopping block, but I’m not holding my breath. If President Obama has his finger on the Public Pulse at all, he will see to it that heads roll—publically. If one of my children withheld information from me that would identify exactly who was starting fires in our neighborhood because of some “power trip”, I would have him on the mat in no time flat and after picking up his terrified body would give him a lesson in accountabilty in the presence of the entire neighborhood.
01/06/10:
Veteran’s Today White House Probes Mole Network Behind Flt 595 [wasn't it 253?] Terror - [by Webster Tarpley]: “Officials in the Obama White House are considering the possibility that the Christmas day attempt by Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Mutallab to blow up an airliner about to land in Detroit was deliberately and intentionally facilitated by unnamed networks inside the US intelligence community. This was the gist of a report by Richard Wolf [sic] delivered in this evening’s edition of cable network MSNBC’s Countdown program, hosted by Keith Olbermann. “If Wolf’s [sic] report is accurate, these Obama officials may be pulling on a thread which could begin to unravel the entire secret structure of illegitimate power which has afflicted this country — in this case, the apparatus which manufactures terrorist incidents for political purposes of mass manipulation, dictatorship, and war.”
Answers to the Truth 9/11 has taken 8 years….might we get Truth on this near disaster in 8 months? Wow.
Detroit News Obama scolds security network about Flight 253: “President Barack Obama said Tuesday the intelligence community had the information to potentially disrupt the attempted bombing of Detroit-bound Flight 253, but ‘failed to connect those dots.’ “
We The People here and abroad are way ahead of MIC games and ARE connecting dots. Rather than “scolding”, it is incumbent upon this administration to reprimand and fire those responsible for these lapses. While doing that, Mr. President, I strongly suggest you dissolve Homeland Security.
01/05/10:
This feels like a behind-the-scenes look at WWIII in the making. We must defang the war beast.
ABC News The August Attempt on Saudi Prince Mohammed – and the Link to Flight 253: “National security sources tell ABC News that the al Qaeda terrorist who tried to kill Saudi prince and counterintelligence chief Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in August used the same technique — an underwear bomb — and the same PETN explosive that Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab tried to use in his attempted Christmas Day attack.”
To me, this adds a rather intriguing dimension to intention.
Veteran’s Today:
White House Probes Mole Network Behind Flt 595 (?) Terror
- [by Webster Tarpley]:
“Officials in the Obama White House are considering the possibility that the Christmas day attempt by Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Mutallab to blow up an airliner about to land in Detroit was deliberately and intentionally facilitated by unnamed networks inside the US intelligence community. This was the gist of a report by Richard Wolf delivered in this evening’s edition of cable network MSNBC’s Countdown program, hosted by Keith Olbermann. This report comes on the eve of a special White House interagency conference convoked by Obama to deal with the massive systemic failure of US intelligence in allowing the Yemen alumnus Mutallab to board the Amsterdam to Detroit flight while allegedly carrying a PETN explosive device on his person. ”"If Wolf’s report is accurate, these Obama officials may be pulling on a thread which could begin to unravel the entire secret structure of illegitimate power which has afflicted this country — in this case, the apparatus which manufactures terrorist incidents for political purposes of mass manipulation, dictatorship, and war.” Now this could qualify for major shake ups if it plays out as it appears to be at this stage.
Harvard Business Review Northwest Flight 253′s Lessons for Leaders: “The botched bombing of Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit haunts millions of air travelers facing (and wanting) tighter airport security. The lucky passengers on NW 253 subdued the terrorist and witnessed minor fires but no explosion. Now the important question is why was he allowed to board the plane in the first place?”
“Leaders should ask themselves the equivalent question about what can go wrong and how to prevent it in their own domains. Global financial crashes, regional power outages, laptops with pyrotechnic batteries, or tainted food ingredients, to name just a few, present similar problems. The NW 253 scare offers an instructive example of the roots of systemic failures. Every leader can learn a few lessons.”
Fair enough.
Pan-African News Wire Arrest of Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab Raises Serious Questions Over Delta Airline Incident in Detroit:“Although U.S. intelligence and media spokespersons have stated that Yemen is a base for Al-Qaida, they do not make the claim that it is also major field of operations for the American Central Intelligence Agency which is working closely with the Yemeni government… .”
“In a just as significant recent development, several western-based multi-national oil firms are threatening to sabotage the Nigerian economy because of their displeasure with a deal that was agreed upon with the People’s Republic of China involving a $50 billion petroleum revenue generation project related to the export of oil to China. Shell is offering its operations for sale which will inevitably undermine the oil industry in Nigeria, which no longer is the dominant producer on oil on the continent.”
Guardian UK Britain says it passed airliner suspect data to US “British intelligence passed on to U.S. authorities information about a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner but he was not singled out as a particular risk, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office said Monday.”
“The disclosure came a day after British security officials said they were aware that Abdulmutallab was in contact with known radicals shortly after he came to the U.K. in 2005 but did not consider him a sufficient threat to single him out and alert U.S. authorities.”
Wait one. If I read this article correctly, Britain originally stated that they did not alert U.S. authorities but one day later, they reverse this and state they did? Well, when governments and invested individuals have an agenda to carry out, Truth is always the first casualty.
01/04/10:
Kurt and Lori Haskell blog: Fellow Passenger Daniel Huisinga Supports My Claim Regarding the “Man in Orange” live on FOX News: “I just found this account by fellow Flight 253 passenger Daniel Huisinga on FOX News where he backs up my claim regarding the “Man in Orange”. The term “Man in Orange” was coined by myself and is not specifically used to describe such man in this video, but Daniel is referring to the same man.”
Also see MSNBC’s interview with Mr. Huisinga
01/03/10:
Politico Brennan: Deal ‘on the table’ for terror suspect “The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.”
On the face of it, I perceive this is a smart move. Zeroing in on the suspect with incentives could break his “spell-like syndrome” and bring into focus specific funders behind these attacks instead of broad strikes in countries with many, many more innocent people killed and displaced. I’m not happy with the overall performance of this administration, but we must also realize that there are militant forces within our own political realms (i.e. Cheney, CIAda, etc.) who are trying to embarrass this administration into maintaining a hold on their financial interests and personal prejudices in these regions.
Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab [father of the charged "terrorist"] is an accomplished banker. Wikipedia: “He played a major role in introducing Islamic banking into Nigeria.”
Would it be irrational to wonder if this influential banker’s son was selected for brainwashing and then set up for this event to embarrass the President (two birds, one stone) in some sort of “revenge” scenario? Perhaps it is a stretch but according to the above explanation on Islamic Banking practices, it “refers to a system of banking or banking activity that is consistent with the principles of Islamic law (Sharia) and its practical application through the development of Islamic economics. Sharia prohibits the payment or acceptance of interest fees for the lending and accepting of money respectively, (Riba, usury) for specific terms, as well as investing in businesses that provide goods or services considered contrary to its principles.“ Just a thought. On a different take, I can’t shake that still small voice in my thoughts that wants to correlate the sudden heat up in terror activity with the colossal cool down in the COP15 talks.
01/02/10**
Global Research CA The Northwest Flight 253 Intelligence Failure: Negligence or Conspiracy? “Once again, as in the wake of September 11, 2001, the government and the media are peddling the explanation that all of these extraordinary lapses were the product of mere negligence or a “failure to connect the dots.”
“Eight years after 9/11, with all of the still unanswered questions surrounding the attacks that were used to justify an explosion of American militarism, the attempt to gloss over an event that nearly cost the lives of 300 people with this hackneyed metaphor does not hold water.”
Quite astutely written article, IMO. Let the Republican and Democratic contenders in the next elections do their dirty deeds to discredit one another. While they are eating their own and killing innocents in false flag ops in a contest over which faction in their elite infrastructure gets to have the most power, we will simply wander into the bright light of a Third Party bonfire, thereby withdrawing their food supplies—our energy and our souls.
KPC News Obama: al-Qaida link to Christmas terror suspect: “President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist plot that has led to a review of how intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner.”
Okay, if it has been proven that Al-Qaida is actually a CIA setup, who would the “Al-Qaida affilate” be? Mossad? ISI?
Also watch BBCs documentarty The power of Nightmares [Video link is on right>>>].
Kurt and Lori’s Blog “The Man In Orange and the Merry Go Round of Ron Smith/U.S. Customs”
Flight 253 passenger David Schilke, Special to CNN A ‘lucky to be alive’ passenger’s story “The suspect: I remember staring at him for “long” periods of time (many seconds). I could very clearly see his face. He never moved. He never turned his head. He never spoke a word or moved his lips. He never struggled. He never stopped anybody from pouring water on him. His expression was completely emotionless.“
01/01/10:
Detroit News: Customs official confirms report of 2nd man held from Flight 253 “A federal customs and border protection official reversed himself today, admitting a passenger from Northwest Flight 253 was placed in handcuffs, searched and released after a canine alerted officers to his carry-on luggage.”
“‘I just want them to look into our claims,” Lori Haskell said. “Our story has been the same since Day One because we are telling the truth. This is the FBI’s fourth story.’ “
Federal Jack Flight 253 Passenger – ‘My Country Is Lying’: “Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday.”
12/31/09:
USA Today Key security agencies lack permanent leaders “Bogged down with health care reform, the Senate has yet to set a date to hold hearings for the Customs position. And Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has placed a hold on the president’s choice to head the TSA over the senator’s concern that the new leader would let TSA screeners join a labor union. This has some Democrats blaming politics for the vacancy.”
While reading this, that “small inner voice” said this story just does not make sense unless you factor in the opposing factions fighting to destroy this country. The alleged “in a trance” terrorist, taken together with a report by Benjamin Fulford alleging that Henry Kissinger is missing , the Norway Spiral, the collapse of the COP15 “global warming” fiasco, , a “minor emergency” in Hawaii of the child of friends of this president, and the arrest of 9/11 Truth advocate Charlie Sheen** , it would not be beyond the rational mind to suspect an all-out coordinated effort behind the scenes to manifest “warnings,” whether from “benelovent” or “maligned” sources? President Obama stated, “We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us.” Might this be a veiled response to the violent Rothschild/Rockefeller extremist factions? Just a thought. Out-of-the-box thinking inevitably leads to a more rounded view. BTW, whatever the substance was that was used, I think an independent lab should be analyzing it in tandem with, or rather than, Quantico, VA.
**“Sheen’s rep, Stan Rosenfeld, has released a statement indicating that things are not as they seem: ‘Do not be misled by appearance. Appearance and reality can be as different as night and day.‘ ”
Chicago TribuneFull body scanners: Many travelers appear willing to shed shyness for security: “As Ronak Ray hunted for his flight gate, he prepared for the prospect of a security guard peering through his clothes with a full body scanner. But Ray doesn’t mind: what he gives up in privacy he gets back in security.”
“Though most passengers interviewed by The Associated Press felt security trumped other concerns, Bruna Martina, 48, a physician from the coast of Venezuela, said the scanners still made her feel uncomfortable. ‘I think there has to be another way to control people, or to scan them, but not like this,’ she said… . ‘They’ll find another way,’ Martina said. ‘There is always somebody cleverer than the rest.’ “
I stopped flying in 2000 after a magical journey to the Mayan ruins in Yucatan, not from fear but because of the realization that there are wonders and creative endeavors to be absorbed right in my own backyard. IMHO, Americans should spend a great deal more time exploring ways to appreciate what we have on our own continent, investing all this tremendous creative energy into local endeavors, building community business and honest governance from the ground up, and working to improve our society right here at home, stopping these Imperial wars and strengthening our domestic resources. In such ways, we could stop these violent acts in a heartbeat.
12/30/09:
Metro Detroit MLive Videos: Kurt and Lori Haskell talk Flight 253, passport ‘accomplice’ and FBI questioning
Related just FYI:
12/15/09 Radio Netherlands reported: ” Terrorist threat in the Netherlands recedes: “News that the threat to the Netherlands from extremist Islamic networks appears to be receding is picked up on an inside page of today’s nrc.next. It says the Dutch AIVD intelligence service believes there is less danger than in the recent past of attacks on government targets, politicians and people in the public eye.”
“De Volkskrant gives the issue a prominent place on its front page. It says Erik Akerboom, the national anti-terrorism co-ordinator, has reduced the official level of threat from substantial to limited. International jihadist organisations are also apparently less interested in the Netherlands than they were a year ago. The capacity of the al-Qaeda terrorist network to hit Europe is also said to have weakened.“Fox News on Airport Scanners: ” “Such scanners ‘provide the best protection for the widest range of threats,’ said Joe Reiss, vice president of marketing for American Science & Engineering Inc. The company makes machines for prisons, military agencies, foreign customs patrols and other customers but does not have a contract with TSA.” (until now?).
American Science and Engineering Inc. (ASEI) President and CEO Anthony R Fabiano sells 16,106 Shares (12/09/09)
12/28/09:
Herald Sun Com Accomplice may have helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged terror plane plane“Dutch military police are investigating the possibility that an accomplice may have helped the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, a spokesman said on Monday.”
A U.S. couple on the flight, Kurt and Lori Haskell, told Reuters and other news agencies that they saw a tall, well-dressed man aged about 50 with the suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Friday morning at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.”
“The military police have already said Abdulmutallab did not go through passport control at Schiphol when he arrived from Lagos.”
Might this information about allegedly “being helped” account for his “trance” state, as has been described in several related articles?
12/27/09;
Mail Online: Alarm bells that went unheeded “Question marks over why Abdulmutallab was allowed to evade security grew yesterday as it became clear just how close he came to downing the transatlantic jet carrying 278 passengers.
Alarm bells should have been set off by the fact that he bought a ticket in cash – paying $2,831 (£1,775) – a week ago at the KLM office in Accra, Ghana, to fly from Lagos to Detroit via Schiphol, and travelled without any checked-in luggage.
The combination of buying in a third country, paying cash and having no luggage should have been suspicious. “
12/26/09:
YatBazaar YakPundits Blog: “I flew Delta 253 last week…” (relating his experience with strict Dutch security): “The Dutch approach to passenger screening is quite different from the US approach. They still look each passenger boarding an international flight in the eye. THEN they check your bags. A gate for a flight to the US opens 90 minutes prior to departure. At that time, 3-5 security agents will set up laptops with wireless connections at the gatehouse entrance. Those agents take people in from the gatehouse queue one at a time (more if it’s a couple or family traveling together).”
CBS News Report: Father Warned of Bomb Suspect Son: “A prominent Nigerian banker warned authorities about his son’s extremist religious views six months before he allegedly attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger jet Christmas day, according to a local newspaper.”
“On Saturday, a [sic] American official revealed the U.S. had known about Abdulmutallab’s possible ties to terrorist groups for at least two years.”
Perhaps this was to be the most recent “terrorist patsy”? Obviously in a “post 9/11 world”, to “overlook” someone who’s own father (a prominent banker, no less) reported him to the U.S. Embassy is….(fill in the blank).
12/25/09:
RealClearPolitics Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane: “An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke — sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said.”
“One law enforcement official said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil, but other law enforcement officials cautioned that such claims could not be verified immediately, and said the man may have been acting independently — inspired but not specifically trained or ordered by terror groups.”
Beta bait.
**The date 01/02/2010 when written “01022010” is a palindromic number , the same forward and backward.
Sign On SD: “Before the current century, the last palindromic date occurred more than 600 years ago (08/31/1380), said Aziz Inan, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Portland… .”) Yet, as rare as calendar dated palindromes are, another will occur on 11/02/2011. Might “11022011″ be the end-bracket for a period in which we witness on a wide scale the take down of PsyOps (0r Cyclops?) crowd?
Possibly related news:
01/05/10 Military Blogger Michael Yon Detained, Handcuffed by TSA in Seattle Airport
11/07/09 (Daniel) Estulin: After G20, Oligarchs Moving on African Union, Population Reduction: “The meeting’s attendees, also identified in the smuggled documents, reads like a who’s who of the financial oligarchical elite, including leading Bilderbergers such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, World Bank President Bob Zoellick, Turkish Finance Minister Ali Babacan and British Finance Minister Alistair Darling and many others. The Trilateral Commission was also represented at the conference by Japanese members Yoshihiko Noda and Masaaki Shirakawa.”
In Attacks in Italy, Who’s Inspiring Whom? “Two people found a way to get past security to attack luminaries in Italy this month. The first victim was Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi; the second, on Thursday, was Pope Benedict XVI.”
Although I do not necessarily agree with the slant on this article, it does help to point out that there seems to be a worldwide lapse in security measures that almost seems deliberate, as though inviting a free-for-all around the world. Just a thought.
- Would the “terrorist” purchase a round-trip ticket if he wasn’t planning to return? TDN News “…Nigerian officials said the man’s round-trip plane ticket was bought on Dec. 16 in Accra, Ghana, for $2,831 in cash, presumably by Abdulmutallab himself.”
- Why would a man be filming the “terrorist” instead of reacting as most would; with an adrenalin rush? Was he knowledgeable that the bomb would not blow the plane? MLive Jackson man, Wisconsin family on Flight 253 say unknown man got video of alleged attack.
So far, it seems as though at least one participant in this scenario was aware that the bomb was never intended to do much harm, just create terror as part of a PsyOps agenda. - Why are we not shown the security video from Amsterdam showing the suspect (and allegedly his handler) at the ticket desk?
- Why do we not hear Truthful details about the 2nd man “detained” from the same flight? He should be receiving at least as much news attention as the original “terrorist” due to the huge implications of this event.
- What about the man arrested two days later on the same Amsterdam—Detroit flight who was, “Just an ‘Ill Businessman’ w/ No Luggage Who Can’t Say Why He’s Going to US.”?
This is definitely the most awesome most thought provoking site yet.
Comment by nicheaddict — July 14, 2010 @ 4:56 am