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Unanswered Questions about “Muslim Airline Bomber”

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:01:46 -0500

Unanswered Questions about “Muslim Airline Bomber” Christmas Day 2009 News

By TruthTroubadour

Was the Christmas Day 2009 “Muslim Airline Bomber” news about a man named Abdulmutallab some sort of media Psy War operation? There’s a lot wrong with this story as we learn from what some of the passengers observed. Was it a false flag operation to be used as a pretext to expand the Anglo-American so called “war on terror” to Yemen?

Here is a gathering of interesting excerpts from CNN on AOL News, London Times on Line, Metro Detroit, and other sources. Together these news stories raise more questions than they answer about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight (Amsterdam to Detroit) over America. He was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year. And somehow this man on a US terror watch list got on board the plane without a passport with the help of “a sharp dressed man”, according to fellow passenger Kurt Haskell. See last entry from Metro Detroit Local News and Talk.

There are numerous unanswered questions about the behavior and circumstances of the recent news story about a Nigerian Muslim named Abdulmutallab, who somehow got a bomb onto an airplane in these post 9/11 “war on terror” times. His behavior after being arrested is reminiscent of that of Sirhan Sirhan after the shooting of Bobby Kennedy or Mark David Chapman after shooting John Lennon. Could this be some sort of MK Ultra mind control behavior? The 50 years of CIA mind control experiments done by American universities and the military led to the torture regimen used by the Bush-Cheney regime in a gulag of world-wide prisons. It is all well documented in a new book by Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror. (©2006 by Henry Holt & Co. LLC)

McCoy is a Wisconsin professor who is famous for The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy

At bottom, see the London Times on Line coverage for their full article. For now, consider these three excerpts: (1) “For the past two years Abdulmutallab has been on a United States watchlist for people known to have extremist links… (2) Peter King, a Republican congressman, claimed he (Abdulmutallab) did not go through full-body image screening at either airport…. (3) His father said yesterday that he had lost contact with his son after he left London in November last year.”

Passenger (Jasper Shuringa) Says He Helped Thwart Terror Attack

He heard fire extinguishers as he pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat. "Just to be sure I grabbed him with another attendant and we took him to first class and there we stripped him and contained him with handcuffs and we made sure he had no more weapons, no more bombs on him."

Schuringa said Abdulmutallab seemed dazed. "He was staring into nothing."

Schuringa said the incident sparked panic aboard the flight. "The whole plane was screaming. The suspect, he didn't say a word."

We were holding [him,] but we (he? TT) wasn't struggling."

See full story at CNN:

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/passenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack/19294599?icid=main|main|dl1|link1|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fpassenger-jasper-schuringa-says-he-helped-thwart-terror-attack%2F19294599

Was this man who had “lost contact” with his family subjected to some sort of MK Ultra mind control intervention to get him to be the patsy in this event? Should not a crime investigation consider all scenarios and motives?

I went back to look at some coverage of Mark David Chapman murder of anti-war activist and famous singer-songwriter of the Beatles, John Lennon.

"He walked past me and then I heard in my head, 'Do it, do it, do it,' over and over again, saying 'Do it, do it, do it,' like that," Chapman, preternaturally serene, recalled in a BBC documentary several years after going to prison. "I don't remember aiming. I must have done, but I don't remember drawing a bead or whatever you call it. And I just pulled the trigger steady five times."

Chapman described his feeling at the time of the shooting as "no emotion, no anger dead silence in the brain."

His unnatural tone sounded all-too-familiar. British lawyer/journalist Fenton Bresler took it as a tip-off. Chapman was a brainwashed hit man carrying out someone else's contract.

"Mark David Chapman," writes Bresler, "is in many ways as much the victim of those who wanted to kill John Lennon as Lennon himself."

Prosecutors, as a loss for motive, opted for the cliché: Chapman did it for the attention- the troublesome American preoccupation with grabbing that elusive fifteen minutes of propels many a daily-newspaper-journalist-cum-pop-sociologist into raptures of sanctimony. But Arthur O'Connor, the detective who spent more time with Chapman immediately following the murder than anyone else, saw it another way.

"It is definitely illogical to say that Mark committed the murder to make himself famous. He did not want to talk to the press from the very start. It's possible Mark could have been used by somebody. I saw him the night of the murder. I studied him intensely. He looked as if he could have been programmed."

http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm

December 27, 2009 – London Times on Line

Airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was barred from Britain

Former student who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet had UK visa request refused in May – Excerpts quoted below. For full story check:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6968539.ece

For the past two years Abdulmutallab has been on a United States watchlist for people known to have extremist links, but he was not prevented from flying to America. UK officials indicated that he had passed across MI5’s radar but was not deemed sufficiently threatening to warrant surveillance.

Abdulmutallab began his journey in Nigeria and then changed planes in Amsterdam. Peter King, a Republican congressman, claimed he did not go through full-body image screening at either airport.

All airlines flying to America have now imposed heightened security, including “pat-down” checks for all passengers and a hand luggage check at the gate.

Abdulmutallab was from a privileged background. His father, Dr Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was until recently the head of First Bank of Nigeria and had been a government minister during the 1970s.

Abdulmutallab studied engineering for three years at University College London. His father said yesterday that he had lost contact with his son after he left London in November last year.

Kennedy's killer demands retrial

Sirhan Sirhan claims he was a victim of hypnotic programming

Isabel Vincent
National Post

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 –Excerpt quoted. See full story at:

http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/Sirhan%20Demands%20Retrial.html

Sirhan did fire a gun in the early hours of June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador Hotel, where Kennedy was celebrating his win in the California primary, but he was not conscious of what he was doing and none of his bullets killed the senator, his lawyer says.

"Have you seen The Manchurian Candidate?" asked Lawrence Teeter in an interview from his home in California. "It's the same thing with my client. He was the victim of hypnotic programming."

Officials Tell “The Official Story” to the New York Times

Officials Point to Suspect’s Claim of Qaeda Ties in Yemen

By ERIC SCHMITT and ERIC LIPTON

Published: December 26, 2009 – Excerpt. For the full article, see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27terror.html?_r=1

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities on Saturday charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, and officials said the suspect told them he had obtained explosive chemicals and a syringe that were sewn into his underwear from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda.

Mr. Abdulmutallab told F.B.I. agents he was connected to the Qaeda affiliate, which operates largely in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, by a radical Yemeni cleric whom he contacted online. The cleric is not believed to be Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born imam who has spoken in favor of anti-American violence and who corresponded with Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the killings of 13 people in a shooting spree last month at Fort Hood, Tex.

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)

By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com

December 26, 2009, 2:22PM – Excerpts here. Full story here:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich…. said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.

Kurt and Lori Haskell are attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor. Their expertise includes bankruptcy, family law and estate planning. http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/latest-story-by-kurt-haskell.html

While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”

Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab's lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.

The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn't see Mutallab again until after he allegedly tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.

CLG: Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 27 Dec 2009 Bogosity reaches critical mass! In 2008, the ACLU estimated the US 'No Fly List' to have grown to over 1,000,000 names --heck, even Cat Stevens and the late Senator Ted Kennedy were on it --and it continues to expand. But, suspected terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was curiously able to obtain military-grade high explosives -- 80 grams of PETN (gee, where'd he get that?) -- managed to escape airport security and detonate his underwear bomb! In April 2009, American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board. Got it? Write a book critical of the CIA -- you cannot fly. Carry explosives (allegedly from Yemen) on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for its oil -- yes you can!

http://www.legitgov.org/northwest_bomb_plot_oddities.html

Will Legal Briefs by John Yoo Protect Torturers Now?

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:08:22 -0400

The whole world is watching to see if the people of the United States can hold their government to the rule of law against the use of torture. It looks like President Obama's attempt to "move forward" and not look at past crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime is not tenable.

Obama's new Attorney General has appointed a Special Prosecutor to investigate the crimes of torture that were revealed in the media all over the world. The photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the revelations of torture at Guantanamo prison in Cuba and in secret locations in other countries have shamed Americans and outraged decent people everywhere.

According to an article by Carrie Johnson in the Aug. 25, 2009 issue of the Washington Post, " Holder has named longtime prosecutor John H. Durham, who has parachuted into crisis situations for both political parties over three decades, to open an early review of nearly a dozen cases of alleged detainee mistreatment at the hands of CIA interrogators and contractors.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082401743.html

Some mainstream news outlets have sought to diminish the horror of the Bush-Cheney administration's torture sessions by using euphemistic code terms instead of torture, such as "harsh measures. Yet according to the Post article, " In all, more than 100 detainees died in U.S. care, most of them under military custody, according to previous government reports and congressional inquiries. It is not known how many of the cases in the new review by Durham involve detainee deaths."

Holder is responding to a 2004 inspector general's report that was just released after a federal judge sided with the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that was bitterly opposed by top intelligence officials. Holder had seen the report when it was still classified and said that he was "disgusted" by its contents. The public version, which is heavily redacted, describes a catalogue of brutal tactics that included threats against the children and wives of the tortured detainees.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been openly defending the "interrogation techniques" as a great success in the so-called "war on terror". This has been disputed by professional interrogaters as a way to get false information to justify wars with no intention to prosecute detained suspects in a court of law.

Cheney remains defiant. He now says he might not cooperate with new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's probe into possible abuses by the Bush administration. Everything from outright lies to go to war to confessions under torture to justify the wars is being questioned far and wide as possible grounds for prosecution. Yet Holder may have already signalled his game plan by stating that those who followed the "guidelines" set by the Bush administration will not be prosecuted.

According to the inspector general report, the interrogation tactics were "not within established guidelines". The guidelines themselves were written by Justice Department lawyers like John Yoo and Judge Bybee, and they have been criticized as political cover for Bush administration violations of U.S. and international law. It would be ironic if these legal briefs are allowed by Holder and Duram to take no legal action against the authors and their bosses who used torture.

Citizens from several organizations have been protesting at the UC Berkeley Law School against the return of John Yoo from "public service" to teaching law. The National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Democrats of America, Code Pink Women for Peace, World Can't Wait, and the National Accountability Action Network took the demonstration to the doors of Yoo's classroom on August 17 as they called for Yoo to be fired, disbarred, and prosecuted for his role in providing legal cover for the crimes of torture committed under the guidelines he wrote. Yoo's memos basically said that if the President says it's okay, then it's ok. Attorney Dan Siegel, a graduate of UC Berkeley's law school from the era of the Free Speech movement, stated that John Yoo's writing of legal briefs as cover for torture by the Bush-Cheney regime is not a matter of "free speech". It is a crime to use your position in violation of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as the treaties that the US has signed as the law of the land, namely the Geneva Conventions. See video clips of their demonstration at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y9UVy-2HSI

The whole world is watching. Will the legal briefs written by John Yoo now be used to protect those who used torture to get their way with the world?