Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby thatsmystory » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:23 pm

Do the Haskell's buy the intel explanation that the CIA was hoping to follow Mutallab's trail in the US and thus let him board? I would guess there is a 99.9 % chance this explanation is bullshit. If they got him on the plane they probably knew he had an explosive. The reason the other intel agent would have boarded was because he knew the explosive wouldn't work. Or should we believe the reckless plan backfired as Mutallab tried to blow up the plane without their prior knowledge? Which would mean they endangered passengers and ruined their plans of following him in the US.

This fits one implicit MO for 9/11. "We were caught by surprise. Was it reckless to let al Qaeda operatives roam the country for over 20 months? Maybe. But we felt it was necessary so we could get intel about al Qaeda cells in the US."

Is it total bullshit? Yes.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:17 pm

The Haskells' website looks absolutely genuine. Brave people.

The comments are also well worth reading -

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -been.html

- and the following story was linked to there. (The headline speaks euphemistically of a "security breach", but it was clearly something a lot fishier than that, i.e., a deliberate security breach):

Delta Employee Reportedly Fired After Speaking Out About JFK Security Breach

Monday, January 11, 2010

A Delta Airlines employee was fired after going to the airline's top officials with details of an alleged security breach at John F. Kennedy International Airport — one that came barely a week after the failed terror attack on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, according to a published report.

Eric Amankwah, a customer service agent in New York, says he was ordered by his supervisor on Jan. 2 to evade customs officials and deliver a suitcase to other airport employees so that it could be loaded onto an outgoing flight without inspection, the New York-based Black Star News reported.

Amankwah, 28, said he was told that Delta Airlines would be fined if the suitcase went through customs. The bag had a sticker reading "NAS," and may have been headed to the Nassau airport in the Bahamas, he told Black Star News, but said he did not know its contents.

Fearing that he had violated the law and was being set up by his bosses, he e-mailed and called two of his supervisors, seeking reassurance that he wouldn't face any disciplinary action over what he had been ordered to do.

Amankwah recorded his conversations and sent e-mails to Delta's CEO and other top executives on Jan. 5 about his "special assignment," he told the newspaper.

Returning to work that day, he says he was interviewed and suspended by Delta's director of operations at JFK. Amankwah said he had also been suspended in mid-December, and that a second suspension meant he was immediately terminated.


A lawyer for Amankwah told Fox News the details of the report are essentially correct.

But Delta Airlines spokesman Ed Stewart says Amankwah was not fired and that they very much want to talk with him. Stewart could neither confirm nor deny the rest of the story, but said an investigation is underway — and that Amankwah's supervisors are being interviewed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582621,00.html
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby StarmanSkye » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:41 pm

Yeowieee! Good catch alright; If this WAS a deliberately 'failed' by-accident on-purpose false-flag set-up to provide the necessary pretext for expanding US military operations in Yemen, securing another vital oilflow chokepoint -- as seems quite probable based on non-mainstream media sources and logical conjecture, it sure was done pretty sloppily, with a lot of loose 'ends'. Why? Are the PTB's agents getting cocksure overconfident? Are they lower-tier agents with poor psyop skills, inattention to detail, incompetant oversight? Or perhaps the PTB usual suspects are revealing bits of their hand on purpose -- Why? Has this implication sunk-in by more than a tiny portion of the public, those whose deep political instincts have been honed in the last several years?

And: Has anyone discussed how bizarre it would be for the would-be bomber (foiled patsy?) to attempt international airtravel without having a passport? Had he been assured he wouldn't need one? Is that another indication he was assured of assistance in facilitating his boarding?

BTW: I always get a lot out of Engdahl's articles -- he's a damn good resource for inquiring minds. He invariably provides important food for thought.


Re: thatsmystory:
My read was that Haskell isn't buying the bullshit, he's hep to the broader implications of the presumed agent-accomplice filming Mutallab's failed bomb-detonation exploits, which had to be because he was assured it wouldn't go-off. I may not have read the articles closely enough and so missed if he really WAS suggesting that Mutallab was let on board to track his movements and contacts. But I got the sense Haskell was suggesting the failure of security to rigorously check all baggage on landing and evacuate passengers (placing them at risk of possible further explosives) immediately as too improbable to be believed, indirectly suggesting it was all a big contrived hoax a 'la "We dodged that one by sheer luck!" I'm sure SOME people won't miss that the much-vaunted security utterly failed (besides the inane remarks of somebody Important who claimed the system 'worked' because the bomber was apprehended and nobody was hurt.) It would be the height of idiocy to require passengers to remain seated one-hour before landing since in this instance it was only the alert passengers timely intervention that could have kept the bomb from being detonated, IF it hadn't been a dud. (I haven't kept up -- Is this new rule going to be put in place? Or has it already?)

It's a damn crying shame more people aren't aware of how the FBI (or was it the CIA? I now forget) had infiltrated the '93 WTC bombing crew and ordered their CI NOT to replace the active explosive with an inert substance. That would go a long way in alerting people to the great lengths our 'government' is willing to go to achieve the Master Class's totalitarian ends.

Re: Delta Employee Reportedly Fired

Holy
SHIT!!!!

Talk about being placed in a double-down no-win bind, damned if he does, damned if he don't, which way to play it? -- Trust his boss won't steer him wrong or wonder why the subterfuge that stinks 1000 ways to Sunday isn't a set-up. Being blackballed for life or accessory to something very wrong -- whatta choice! So he takes precautions and comes clean, only to get -- get this! -- SLAMMED to the ground, for what? Having questioned his boss, embarrassed the company or handing the top brass a too-hot hot potato?
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby thatsmystory » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:35 pm

We have a presumed intel agent convince the airline to let Mutallab board. Another presumed intel agent videotapes the incident.

Is this the way a slick, sophisticated intel agency works? One would think they could have ensured that Mutallab had a valid passport to board without incident.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby crikkett » Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:42 pm

StarmanSkye wrote:Re: Delta Employee Reportedly Fired

Holy
SHIT!!!!

Talk about being placed in a double-down no-win bind, damned if he does, damned if he don't, which way to play it? -- Trust his boss won't steer him wrong or wonder why the subterfuge that stinks 1000 ways to Sunday isn't a set-up. Being blackballed for life or accessory to something very wrong -- whatta choice! So he takes precautions and comes clean, only to get -- get this! -- SLAMMED to the ground, for what? Having questioned his boss, embarrassed the company or handing the top brass a too-hot hot potato?


Instead of "following orders" and then trying to wiggle out of his responsibility later, what he *should* have done, was take the suitcase from his supervisor, and head DIRECTLY to customs with his story, but only as soon as he was done calling and emailing his supervisor's superiors with his complaint...and his wife, for good measure, in case he didn't come home that night. There you go: ass covered, security intact.

But most people have to be trained to think this way.

If this were my employee he'd be gone because he's proven himself to be dangerously stupid. He delivered the suitcase. He participated in a security breach. Period.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby chump » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:11 am

I snipped a few pieces, but perhaps it would be worth it to read the whole thing:

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/ ... rwear.html

Saturday, December 25, 2010Christmas Day One Year Later-The Underwear Bomber-Case Closed
by Kurt Haskell from Thailand

I've been attempting to write this article for the last 36 hours but the internet has been out at our hotel...............

It has been one year since the Underwear Bomber incident that changed my life. I'm not going to rehash the entire story of my account, as that is available here in my past postings on this blog. I just have a few things to say that I've been thinking about as I hike through the jungles of Thailand.

On January 28, 2010 I first posted that the Sharp Dressed Man was a U.S. Government Agent.

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -been.html

I am now nearly 100% certain that I am correct.

Three days after I wrote the above blog post, I wrote the following post, which discusses what I considered to be the most important remaining questions regarding flight 253.

The third question that I asked, "Was the bomb intended to explode?", to me, is the entire key to the story and I believe it has been answered.

On January 31, 2010 I never would have dreamt of a scenario in which the U.S. Government would ADMIT that it was handing out fake bombs to terrorists, but that has now happened on two occasions that I'm aware of in 2010:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=11684350

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/2 ... 88695.html

Also, if you take a look at this interview with the college kid that sat next to Umar (I refuse to call him a terrorist as he is a mere patsy) you can see that the U.S. Government seized all of his clothes:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =123821351

The above three articles when taken together definitively solve the entire underwear bomber episode. The first two represent the modus operandi of the FBI/CIA, which is if nobody get hurt, fake bombs are o.k. I will discuss that aspect in a minute. When you look deeply at the third article you have to ask the question, why were all of his clothes seized? The bombing substance, allegedly PETN was all over the airplane cabin near Umar's seat. It is not like there was a lack of material to be tested. The truth is that the government seized it all so that nobody could test the real chemical composition to determine that the bomb was indeed a dud. If I would have known that I would be writing this article one year ago, I would have picked up some of the substance as I walked within inches of it.

If you accept that the Underwear Bomber had an intentionally defective bomb /fake bomb, then you need not answer any of the other questions that I posed on January 31, 2010 as the answers are either unnecessay or have only one possible explanation.

Before I get into that discussion, let me state that even if you accept that the bomb was fake, it does not mean that the plot had no victims. The last 10 minutes on flight 253 were the most terrifying moments of my life. For months I did not sleep, and my doctor diagnosed me with post traumatic stress disorder. It was also likely that without the fast acting efforts of a flight attendant with a fire extinguisher, that our plane would have blown up from the fire that resulted from the fake bomb.

Back to why the fake bomb is so important to this story...........

...Who was the Sharp Dressed Man? The answer is now certain that it was a U.S. Government agent sent to ensure that Umar boarded the plane. Obviosuly, the entire fraudulent plot fails if he fails to board the plane. Who was the Man in Orage? The answer is not really important anymore. It is likely that he supplied Umar with the dud bomb at Schipol Airport and was taken into custody after the bomb residue was found in his carry on bag....

.... Next, I would like to address why the U.S. Government would continue to stage such plots. There may be numerous answers to this question, but the answer regarding flight 253 was that the Patriot Act needed to be renewed and body scanners needed to be placed in the airports. What a perfect way to bring body scanners to the airports: stage a fake terrorist bombing when the bomb is in the bombers clothes....

... What is also etirely disturbing to me is that the media does not do any investigative journalism. My claims have not been followed up on. I have discoverd that the media is nothing but a mouthpiece for the U.S Government....
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby stickdog99 » Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:37 pm

poor guy

He reminds me of someone who finally decided to fight a traffic ticket on principle because he was following the rules.

"I demand justice! Isn't that what our courts are for?" he bellowed as he was remanded into custody for 30 days for contempt of court.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby sunny » Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:42 pm

Kurt Haskell wrote: I have discoverd that the media is nothing but a mouthpiece for the U.S Government....


Welcome to the club! Always nice to have new members.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby MinM » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:21 pm

chump wrote:From Kurt and Lori Haskell, who witnessed the sharp dressed man:

Thursday, January 28, 2010
THE TRUTH ABOUT FLIGHT 253 HAS BEEN REVEALED- By Kurt Haskell
Edited January 29, 2009

***Please note that in the article that follows, I am not claiming that the U.S. Government knew Mutallab had a bomb or intended to hurt anyone on Flight 253 when the U.S. Government let him board.

THE SHARP DRESSED MAN WHO AIDED MUTALLAB ONTO FLIGHT 253 WAS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENT.

Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. The truth is now finally out after the publication of the following Detroit News article:

http://detnews.com/article/20100127/NAT ... estigation

Let me quote from the article:



"Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.

"Revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."'



Now it all becomes apparent. Let me detail everything we know about the "Sharp Dressed Man" (SDM).
1. While being held in Customs on Christmas Day, I first told the story of the SDM.
2. My story has never changed.
3. The FBI visited my office on December 29, 2009, and showed me a series of approximately 10 photographs. None were of the SDM. I asked the FBI if they brought the Amsterdam security video to help me identify the SDM, but they acted as though my request was ridiculous. The FBI asked me what accent the SDM spoke in and I indicated that he had an American accent similar to my own. I further indicated that he wore a tan suit without a tie, was Indian looking, around age 50, 6'0" tall and 250-260 lbs. I further indicated that I did not believe that he was an airline employee and that he was not on our flight.
4. During the first week of January, 2010, Dutch Military Police and the FBI indicated that over "200 Hours" of Amsterdam airport security video had been reviewed and it "Shows Nothing".
5. The mainstream media picked up the "Shows nothing" story, which slanders my story. After visiting my office twice for a flight 253 special, Dateline NBC and Chris Hanson indicated that my story was "Unsubstantiated rumor dispelled as myth" and our story did not air during the tv special.
6. On January 2, 2010, I receive a call from a flight 253 passenger who indicated to me that it may be in my best interest to stop talking publicly about the SDM because he believes I am "wrong" in what I saw. He did not make any claim that he saw the SDM boarding gate incident at all. This call was made out of the blue after he made a "revelation" of this event on January 1, 2010. I later discover that this caller has ties to the U.S. Government.
7. On January 20, 2009, current Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Michael E. Leiter, made a startling admission. Leiter indicated that: "I will tell you, that when people come to the country and they are on the watch list, it is because we have generally made the choice that we want them here in the country for some reason or another."
8. On January 22, 2010, CongressDaily reported that intelligence officials "have acknowledged the government knowingly allows foreigners whose names are on terrorist watch lists to enter the country in order to track their movement and activities."

CongressDaily also reported, citing an unnamed "intelligence official" that Michael E. Leiter's statement on January 20, 2010, reflected government policy and told the publication, "in certain situations it's to our advantage to be able to track individuals who might be on a terrorist watch list because you can learn something from their activities and their contacts."
9. On Janury 22, 2009, ABC News published an article that shoed a change of position in the government's official story. Please see the following blog post for more information:

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/ ... unted.html

The U.S. government provided no explanation for the reason my story was initially discounted.
10. The SDM could not be from Al Qaeda. When speaking at the counter in Amsterdam, the SDM said the following "He is from Sudan, we do this all the time". Who is "we"? If it is Al Qaeda, you surely don't make such a statement to an airposrt security official.
11. The SDM could not be from airport security. The SDM did not dress in any secuirty uniform and did not appear to have any security badge. The SDM did not speak with a Dutch accent. The SDM dressed in a suit coat and pants. If the SDM was a higher up security official, he would not have to convince the ticket agent to let Mutallab on the plane without a valid passport. Instead, he would just order her to do it.
12. Could the SDM have been a U.S. Government official? He dressed in a suit and not a security uniform. Check. He indicated we do this all the time. Could "we" be the U.S. Government? Check. He spoke Enlish with an American accent. Check. Would he need to convice the ticket agent that this was a normal procedure to allow boarding without a passport? Check. Would he have the ability to obtain such clearance? Check. Could he enter this security area even though he wasn't a passenger? Check. Would the ticket agent likely refer this request to a manager? Check. Would the U.S. Government not want this information public and try to hide it? Check.
13. The Amsterdam security video has not been released. A much more minor airport security violation occurred at the Newark New Jersay airport several days after the flight 253 incident. That video was released shortly thereafter.
14. Senators Levin and Stabenow, as well as Congressman Dingle, all refuse to discuss the matter with me.

With the information we already knew and the admission from the above referenced Detroit News article, we have evidence and claims made by government officials that the U.S. Government wanted Mutallab to proceed into the U.S. in order to obtain information on other terrorists involved with him. Once we take this statement and add it to my eyewitness account of a "Sharp Dressed Man" escorting Mutallab through the boarding process and allowing him to baord without a valid passport we can make the connection that the "Sharp Dressed Man" was a U.S. Government offical/agent.

The reasoning behind the following events now becomes very clear:

1. The reason Mutallab got through security despite the numerous warnings for months before our flight.
2. The reason why there have been so many lies from the U.S. Governemnt attempting to discredit my eyewitness account.
3. The reason why the Amsterdam airport security video is being hidden from the public.
4. The reason why the government is proposing a "Failed to Connect the Dots" account of the failure. The truth is too damning.
5. The reason why Mr. Wolf of the Obama administration indicated on the Keith Olberman Show that the White House was investigating a possible "intentional act" from within the U.S. Government as the reason for the Christmas Day attack.
6. The explanation for the cameraman and why he hasn't been identified (Obviously, he was another U.S. Government agent) whose job was to film Mutallab for some governmental purpose.
7. The reason for the lax security after landing, which can be attributed to foreknowledge of the possible suspects involved.
8. The reason for the failure to search or secure the plane and passengers after landing, which can also be attributed to foreknowledge of the possible suspects involved.
9. The corporate media's attempt to bury my eyewitness account.
10. Carl Levin's, Debbie Stabenow's and John Dingle's intentional avoidance of my story and failure to return my calls/emails.
11. Janet Naploitano's statement that "The System Worked". From her point of view it probably did as this WAS PART OF THE SYSTEM!

This article is the big center piece of the puzzle that has been missing and was needed to finish the entire puzzle.
Composed By: Lori H at Thursday, January 28, 2010

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -been.html

Show #549
Original airdate: Oct 20, 2011
Guest: Ray Marcus, Kurt Haskell
Topics: JFK Research / Witness For The Defense In the Underwear Bomber Case

# Play Part Two - Kurt Haskell Real Media or MP3 download


# Firsthand witness in the Underwear Bomber Case, flight from Amsterdam to Detroit,
# A Sudanese man trying to board without a passport, an attempted bombing on our flight
# Could see smoke rising up, smoke turned in to flames, "Fire!", "Terrorist", "Emergency Landing"
# African man with no passport, was now handcuffed, waited for an hour
# Bomb sniffing dogs, the "man in orange", handcuffed and taken away, "those responsible", FBI interview reveals a cover-up
# No one else taken in to custody, another man was taken for an immigration violation, taken from another flight
# The story changed five times, each time Kurt would discredit the story in the media, the FBI came to Kurt's office
# A series of pictures, two of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Underwear Bomber), airport video under a protective order
# Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen Read Here
# Jan.2010 Congressional hearings, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Michael Leiter (Director - National Counterterrorism Center)
# Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber Read Here ,
# Watch Rep. Patrick Kennedy testimony View Here
# Standby attorney, Anthony Chambers, Kurt sent him a fax, they met, the press was skipping over important details
# The FBI admitted handing out defective bombs, the Government, caused a fake terrorist attack,
# Evidence hidden from defense for 20 months
# The prosecutors said, "We have more evidence and we're not going to turn it over", Associated Press misquoted Kurt
# Kurt is an attorney, Umar stated Kurt was going to be his only witness
# Umar pled guilty and accepted a life sentence (October 2011)
# Five cases of the Government providing defective bombs, do we really even have a terrorist problem at all?
# Body scanning machines, renewal of the Patriot Act, Kurt is going to sue the Federal Government
# Blocking evidence, fake evidence, media not reporting things that happen in court, a total scam

viewtopic.php?p=314717#p314717

http://www.blackopradio.com/archives2011.html

executive summary: Haskell wonders why the guy pled guilty last week when he had evidence that at the least could have cast doubt on his guilt. He believes that the guilty plea was just a face-saving move for public consumption and that some type of deal was cut behind closed doors to make this go away.

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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby MinM » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:28 pm

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DETROIT (WXYZ) - UPDATE: Judge postpones sentence for 'underwear bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab


The Nigerian man, known as the underwear bomber, may find out today if he will get a new lawyer 2 weeks before his sentencing.

A judge will hear a motion today from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Abdulmutallab claims his current lawyer treats him with contempt, doesn't visit and failed to provide documents he had ask for.

Abdulmutallab now wants a Muslim attorney.

Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas in 2009.

He faces mandatory life in prison when he is sentenced on January 19.

Copyright © 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/det ... sentencing
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby StarmanSkye » Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:38 am

"I will never trust the US Government in any manner again". -- Kurt Haskell

Latest Update on this particular set-up False Flag entrapment-scam & cover-up that was apparently staged to mandate even more invasive body-screening practices, technology & policies on behalf of the Fear-and-Terror campaign waged by the NWO Global Police State technocracy.

This compliments Min M's latest posts, esp. the BlackOp Radio audio interview of Haskell and the provided summary.

What really stands out in this whole sordid tale of governmentasl deceit, fraud, trickery, duplicity and hyped Terror-scheming treachery is the evidence this provides that this whole 'terror' stunt was micro-managed by US officials from the very beginning -- basicly, hand-holding this potential patsy and assisting him with means, motive and opportunity to set-off this attempted bombing -- which they provided, then getting him on the plane despite having to bypass their own rules & regulations -- just to further provoke & manipulate public perception in support of a US gov. contrived bogus Global War on Terror.

TOO devious & treacherous beyond words.
A National Security State that is SO out-of-control, its an infinitely greater threat to its citizens than Al Qaeda ever was or probably could be.

Man, Kurt Haskell is one helluva courageous, principled & dedicated ally for the truth. The mass-media-blackout on these details should leave no-one in doubt how incestuous the media-military-gov-Pentagon connection is.

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http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/ ... -testifies

Was Underwear Bomber a False Flag? A Fellow Passenger Testifies

Written by Joe Wolverton, II
Friday, 24 February 2012 10:52

On February 15, the sentencing hearing was held in Michigan in the case of Umar Abdulmutallab (left), the young Nigerian man convicted of attempting to detonate a bomb on an airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. At that hearing, a most compelling statement was read by Kurt Haskell, a passenger onboard Northwest Flight 253, the same flight chosen by Abdulmutallab to carry out his potentially catastrophic mission. Abdulmutallab was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.

From the day after the attack, this reporter has covered every stage of the arrest, interrogation, and trial of the man inelegantly dubbed the “Underwear Bomber.” As part of my research for one of the articles in that series, I interviewed Mr. Haskell, an attorney specializing in bankruptcy and family law. At that time, Haskell related to me that he and his wife Lori were on their way back to Michigan from a Ugandan safari when they boarded Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam.

Haskell reported that as they sat near the gate waiting to board their flight, they witnessed a well-dressed man, who was accompanying a poorly dressed younger companion, trying to convince boarding agents to allow the poorly dressed man, whom they now recognize as Umar Abdulmutallab, to board the plane, despite not having a passport. Haskell recalls having his attention drawn to the shabby dress of the man without a passport and then listening with curiosity to the unusual conversation between the suited man and the ticket agent.

The ticket agent told the well-dressed man that she would need to inform her manager of the situation, and the man in the suit responded, “He’s from Sudan. We do this all the time.” Abdulmutallab is Nigerian, so Haskell suspected that the other man was trying to garner sympathy for Abdulmutallab by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee. At this point in the story, Haskell recalls that the two men were escorted by the airline representative to another location, and so he is unsure as to whether Abdulmutallab ultimately was permitted to board the plane without a passport.

Finally, both Haskell and his wife were interviewed by the FBI along with all their fellow passengers. Haskell said that upon concluding his interview, he witnessed government agents taking two men into custody. When I called the FBI, a spokeswoman for the Bureau’s field office in Detroit disputed Haskell’s story and claimed that Abdulmutallab was the only person arrested after the incident.

At the sentencing hearing last week, Haskell recounted this incredible story in open court as part of his “Victim Impact Statement.” Haskell describes the purpose of this aspect of Michigan law:

Every victim of a crime in Michigan is entitled to make a statement in open court regarding the impact of the crime on their life. The statement is limited to the victim's physical, emotional and financial well being as it relates to the crime.

Describing himself not as a witness for Abdulmutallab, but on “behalf of the truth,” Haskell reprints his statement on his family blog.

The details of the story testified to by Haskell in open court are nearly identical with the version Haskell told me (and other media outlets) in the days following the narrowly avoided tragedy.

Other elements of the Haskells’ tale not previously reported are worth reading, however. Haskell testified:

For one month the government refused to admit the existence of the man in the tan suit before changing course and admitting his existence in an ABC News article on January 22, 2010. That was the last time the government talked about this man. The video that would prove the truth of my account has never been released. I continue to be emotional[,] upset that the video has not been released. The Dutch police, meanwhile … also confirmed that Umar did not show his passport in Amsterdam which also meant that he didn’t go through security as both are in the same line in Amsterdam. It upsets me that the government refuses to admit this fact.

I became further saddened from this case, when Patrick Kennedy of the State Department during Congressional hearings, admitted that Umar was a known terrorist, was being followed, and the U.S. allowed him into the U.S. so that it could catch Umar’s accomplices. I was once again shocked and saddened when Michael Leiter of the National Counterterrorism Center admitted during these same hearings that intentionally letting terrorists into the U.S. was a frequent practice of the U.S. Government. I cannot fully explain my sadness, disappointment and fear when I realized that my government allowed an attack on me intentionally.

During this time, I questioned if my country intentionally put a known terrorist onto my flight with a live bomb. I had many sleepless nights over this issue. My answer came shortly thereafter. In late 2010, the FBI admitted to giving out intentionally defective bombs to the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber, the Wrigley Field Bomber and several others. Further, Mr. Chambers was quoted in the Free Press on January 11, 2011 when he indicated that the government’s own explosives experts had indicated that Umar’s bomb was impossibly defective. I wondered how that could be. Certainly, I thought, Al Qaeda wouldn’t go through all of the trouble to plan such an attack only to provide the terrorist with an impossibly defective bomb.

In closing I will just say that regardless of how the media and government try to shape the public perception of this case, I am convinced that Umar was given an intentionally defective bomb by a U.S. Government agent and placed on our flight without showing a passport or going through security, to stage a false terrorist attack to be used to implement various government policies.

The effect this matter has had on my life has been astounding and due to this case, I will never trust the government in any matter, ever.

What Haskell is describing is known as a False Flag operation. For those unfamiliar with this concept, consider the case of the supposed enemy attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War in 1967.

The USS Liberty was an obsolete reconnaissance ship sailing in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. While thus underway, the ship was bombed by Israeli jets and the attack was subsequently blamed on the Egyptians in a ruse designed to draw the United States into the war.

Ultimately, Israel confessed to the attack, claiming that it was a case of mistaken identity. The actions taken by the Israeli pilots evinced an intention to sink the boat and kill all those aboard. This assertion is supported by the fact that the jets machine-gunned the life rafts of American sailors abandoning the stricken vessel.

The government of the United States was complicit in the lie, foisting the story on a trusting American citizenry. The American government's role was to refuse to send in nearby ships to the rescue of the Liberty and her crew while yet being fired upon. In fact, Admiral McCain (father of Arizona Senator John McCain) ordered planes to return to the carrier under his command, although those fighters could have returned fire and thwarted the Israeli assault. The ship and the crew were left seemingly hopeless and vulnerable.

The valiant men of the Liberty fashioned a crude antenna and were able to send an S.O.S. that was received by a Russian ship. Thus, the brunt of the attack was avoided as was a wider Middle Eastern war, with the Soviet Union as a belligerent.

Those interested in reading a fuller account of the events of the USS Liberty should pick up the book What I Saw That Day, by Phillip Tourney, a sailor serving onboard the Liberty.

Lest anyone believe that such government-sponsored conspiracies are a thing of the past, consider the case of Amine El Khalifi, who was arrested on Friday and charged with attempting to carrying out a suicide bombing attack against the U.S. Capitol. "Today's case underscores the continuing threat we face from homegrown violent extremists," CNN quoted Assistant Attorney General for National Security Lisa Monaco saying on Friday. "Thanks to a coordinated law enforcement effort, El Khalifi's alleged plot was thwarted before anyone was harmed." Yet USA Today quoted Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd as saying,"Explosives the suspect allegedly sought to use in connection with the plot had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public." Law enforcement was apparently aware of Boyd for some time. Not only that, but "during the year-long investigation, El Khalifi detonated explosives at a quarry in the capital region with undercover operatives," USA Today reported.

Unfortunately, Kurt and Lori Haskell are now reluctant witnesses to the truth of the government’s “frequent practice” of concocting false terroristic associations and intentions.

In light of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act and its provisions permitting the arrest and indefinite detention of American citizens, all of us should be wary.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby crikkett » Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:32 pm

USS Liberty was not a false flag, according to James Bamford in "The Puzzle Palace". It was an unprovoked attack against a US ship by Israel.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby Nordic » Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:29 pm

crikkett wrote:USS Liberty was not a false flag, according to James Bamford in "The Puzzle Palace". It was an unprovoked attack against a US ship by Israel.



Does Bamford give a reason for the attack?
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby AlicetheKurious » Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:59 pm

Nordic wrote:
crikkett wrote:USS Liberty was not a false flag, according to James Bamford in "The Puzzle Palace". It was an unprovoked attack against a US ship by Israel.



Does Bamford give a reason for the attack?


The USS Liberty was a state-of-the-art surveillance ship, monitoring, recording and relaying what was going on off the coast of the Egyptian city of Al-Arish during Israel's 1967 attack. According to Bamford, the Israelis bombed it so that no record would remain of the cold-blooded slaughter of Egyptian POWs that they carried out and which has been subsequently documented, ironically by the Israelis themselves, as well as by the mass graves that were later found by the Egyptians.

There are other hypotheses, for example that the US would have objected to Israel attacking and occupying Syria's Golan Heights, and so the Israelis bombed the surveillance ship so that the Americans would only discover what Israel had done after it was a fait accompli.

Neither hypothesis precludes the probability that it was also a false-flag attack, designed to blame Egypt. False flags are, after all, a long-standing Israeli specialty, going back to before the zionist state was even declared.
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Re: Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane

Postby crikkett » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:13 pm

AlicetheKurious wrote:Neither hypothesis precludes the probability that it was also a false-flag attack, designed to blame Egypt. False flags are, after all, a long-standing Israeli specialty, going back to before the zionist state was even declared.


It is unimaginable to me that an Admiral would agree to sacrifice his state of the art equipment and the highly-trained men onboard for a false-flag attack. Not then, anyway.

The crew hoisted an 18-foot flag in between strafing runs to try to identify themselves.
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