This video at RTV, Russian TV asks the question media in the US will not. Is the guy a patsy?
He is supposed to be an engineering student AND a "trained" terrorist. What kind of engineer doesn't know the difference between a device that might take down a plane and one that would just set his lap on fire?
He paid cash for his ticket in Ghana and had no checked baggage. All over the world they pull people into rooms to question and search them all the time for stuff like this. But not this guy.
He had a multiple entry US visa but showed neither it or his passport to get on the last leg to the US. Anybody who's been to Europe knows they have multiple layers of screening, much tougher than in the US. How did he get on there with no passport, no visa and no checked bags?
Is he another incompetent mope manipulated to cause a "terror" incident so the authorities can
(1) whip up fear, the same way they used to with color-coded alerts
(2) claim "the system worked" and lobby for more restrictions on civil liberties, more surveillance of civilians, more militarization of life in the US
(3) justify US intervention in West Africa, from where almost 20% of US oil imports flow
(4) justify US intervention in Yemen, where the drones and cruise missiles are already bombing and our mercs and special forces are already kidnapping and murdering...
Maybe his job was not to bring the plane down, but to cause a useful incident so that the prez and his people can continue pretending there is a vast shadowy network out there that hates us becuz of our freedom, or something like that...
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Besides, even if the plane had blown up, who the hell targets Detroit? Do these "terrorists" know ANYTHING?!
His name was on a US security watch-list of more than 500,000 people, known as Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide).
So why wasn't he prevented from flying to the US?
This meant no concerns were raised when he purchased his ticket to the US and had his passport and visa scanned.