Christmas Eve 2009 Underpants Bomber NW253 Amsterdam-Detroit

[letthemeatmadeiracake]

[Disco_Destroyer]

the alledged bomber was on a 747 in a business class when the pictures were taken,here is proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHTW3zoNSo&NR=1


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cnn's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxtgvLdS3TE


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[Disco_Destroyer]

sorry not looked at the above vids, struggling with PCs @ mo just copied and pasted them!

[TonyGosling]

Interesting angle but is it not suspect?
To divert us?

[Mark Gobell]

The msm is now carrying reports of the alleged perp's internet postings on an Islamic Forum website.

The forum's URL is reported to be: http://www.gawaher.com/

I picked up the story from our esteemed "leading liberal voice" The Guardian, which probably got the story from the Washington Post that first published the details here:

In online posts apparently by Detroit suspect, religious ideals collide

The Washington Post article included this cautionary paragraph.

[Mark Gobell]

Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239162/Umar-Farouk-Abdulmutal labs-charred-underwear-hid-explosives-Christmas-day-airline-bomb-plot. html

[GodSaveTheTeam]

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[Mark Gobell]

Qasim Rafiq had trouble reconciling the shocking news surrounding Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab with the college friend he knew: a pious and genuine person who was the president of an organization that condemned terrorist attacks.

AbdulMutallab raised money for charity, he liked soccer, he was social; he was quiet, humble and never came across as dangerous, Rafiq said.

"It's really difficult to see how he could have led a double life at the time, and afterward, it's anyone's guess as to what happened," Rafiq told CNN on Tuesday.

Rafiq does not believe AbdulMutallab became radicalized while at University College London. As a student, the man now accused of trying to blow up a jet was president of the school's Islamic Society from 2006 to 2007 -- a society, Rafiq said, that denounced the July 7, 2005, terrorist bombings in London.

If AbdulMutallab had ever shown signs of support for such attacks, he couldn't have become leader of the group, said Rafiq, who was president of the same society from 2005 to 2006. And from what Rafiq could remember, AbdulMutallab opposed fundamentalist Islamic views that encouraged such violence.

"It came as a complete shock when I heard the other day, when I heard the media reports and his name was coming up," Rafiq said. "It really didn't click, I didn't realize it was him until I actually saw a picture of him being dragged out of the plane."

AbdulMutallab didn't mention to Rafiq that he was against the United State's war in Iraq, but Rafiq admitted the two avoided talking politics. AbdulMutallab also did not mention a trip to Yemen, though a spokesman for the Yemen Embassy in Washington said he was there sometime between 2004 and 2005. He did say he traveled to Damascus, Syria, for a few months to study Arabic, of which he had a conversational grasp, Rafiq said.

The last time Rafiq talked to AbdulMutallab was about 13 or 14 months ago, Rafiq said. AbdulMutallab told him he planned to continue his studies in economics abroad. But then AbdulMutallab cut off contact with him and other friends they had in common, Rafiq said.

For now, Rafiq reminisces about a man that he played soccer with and shared meals with after Friday prayers. He said he does not know the man accused of trying to detonate an explosive while aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day. He thinks that stranger is someone who was transformed after school, elsewhere.

Rafiq said if he could talk with AbdulMutallab, "I'd ask him firstly, what on Earth he thought he was doing and what he was trying to achieve, because if anything, it set back progress that many Muslims across the world were trying to make in terms of making it clear that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and so on.

"Secondly, I'd like to ask him how he got to this state, because the Umar I knew is completely different to the Umar Farouk that we saw or have read about in the media reports. So what happened to him since he left the UK?"

CNN

[Mark Gobell]

Timeline of Terror: Clues in Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's Past

Did officials miss important clues in tracking down Nigerian before failed plot?

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN and HUMA KHAN
Dec. 30, 2009

In hindsight, there were clues that alleged would-be "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had become a dangerous person, and President Obama has said that it was "unacceptable" that those clues weren't spotted and acted upon.

During Abdulmutallab's transformation from the privileged son of a wealthy Nigerian banker to an al Qaeda trainee being taught to kill, he left a series of red flags. Now American and international law enforcement officials are trying to determine how Abdulmutallab was able to come so close to causing more terror in the skies.

Here is a look at the trail of clues Abdulmutallab left behind:

2005 to 2008: Abdulmutallab attends University College of London.

From 2006 to 2007, the 23-year-old engineering student was president of the school's Islamic Society, when he invited controversial speakers to talk about jihad.

June 16, 2008: Abdulmutallab granted Visa to the U.S.

Abdulmutallab is granted a two-year, multiple-entry visa to visit the U.S., which would expire on June 18, 2010.

August 2008 Abdulmutallab travels to the U.S. from London on an 11 day trip to Houston.

May 2009 The first alarm

The U.K denies Abdulmutallab's application to renew his student visa because he applied to study "life coaching" at a non-existent college.

August 2009 U.S. Visa Gives Him Entree to Terror Training

He arrives in Yemen, which admits him because he has a valid U.S. visa in his passport. He stays with an al Qaeda leader for about a month while being trained.

Nov. 11, 2009 First use of underwear bomb

Somali man is arrested trying to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu carrying a syringe and explosives in his underwear – a homemade explosive device similar to the one Abdulmutallab was carrying on Christmas Day.

[outsider]

Jolly good show, Mark. I don't have time to follow this in detail, but even from a cursory scan of you posts it's obvious you have put a lot of effort into this, and have come up with some really good stuff.
Bravo!

[Mark Gobell]

Cheers Outsider. It's been raining here for the past couple of days so I had the time.

I've downloaded all of Farouks1986 posts on www.gawaher.com, so if anyone would like to read them off-line, without having to register there just PM me.

I've cropped the width of the screen grabs now so the thread is more readable.

I picked this up from your CiF thread.

The following was posted in the Guardian's CiF thread here in response to the article Airline bomb plot: At war with the world

[Mark Gobell]

What the world is waiting to know is what exactly happened to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the exact 119 week period since his alleged internet persona, Farouk1986, last posted on www.gewaher.com on 14.9.2007 and the alleged attempt to blow up a passenger jet on Christmas Day 2009 with PETN explosives hidden in his pants?

119 weeks to radicalise a young, wealthy, apparently pious Muslim student who had everything to live for, into an alleged asset of Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, willing to commit suicide and murder hundreds of other innocent civilians.

What turned this Farouk1986, who on September 14th 2007, as an Engineering undergraduate at University College London, whilst living in this:



was discussing the benefits of saying extra prayers during the Holy Month of Ramadan:



into this ?



and this ?




So what was it, exactly, that radicalised him in the intervening 119 weeks ?

[Mark Gobell]

Preliminary investigations yield more details on Nigerian terror bomber

Lagos - Pana 27/12/2009

Preliminary investigations by the regulatory Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) have yielded more details on the itinerary of Umar Farouk Mutallab, son of a prominent Nigerian banker who was alleged to have attempted to blow up a passenger plane in the US Friday.

The Nigerian government ordered a top level probe of the incident, which has further worsened Nigeria's image in the global arena, while the NCAA launched its own investigations, which revealed that Mutallab, 23, indeed travelled out of Nigeria, though he bought his ticket in Accra, Ghana.

According to NCAA boss Harold Demuren, Mutallab boarded a KLM flight to Amsterdam at 2035 local time at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

"This was also corroborated by the Close Circle Television (CCTV) footage. The passenger did not check in any baggage but was spotted with a shoulder bag. The passenger went through a normal checking process. His passport was scanned. His US visa was scanned and the Advanced Passenger Information System returned with no objection,'' Demuren told journalists here Saturday evening.

The NCAA official also revealed that the suspect's e-ticket was purchased from KLM airport office in Accra 16 Dec., while the ticket was paid for in US$2, 831 cash.

He said the suspect's original route was Lagos-Amsterdam-Detroit-Amsterdam-Accra but that he later changed to Lagos-Amsterdam-Detroit-Amsterdam-Lagos.

"The return journey was booked for Jan. 8, 2010 out of Detroit to arrive Lagos on Jan. 9, 2010. No contact address or telephone contact was given by the purchaser of the ticket at the time of purchase,'' he said, adding that the suspect indeed carried a Nigerian Machine Readable Passport (MRP) with passport number A3921640 issued on 15 Sept., 2005, with the expiration date put at 14 Sept., 2010.

Demuren also disclosed that the suspect had a multiple entry US visa, issued in London 16 June 2008 and due to expire 12 June, 2010.

Eyebrows have been raised over how the suspect, whose father, Alhaji Umar Abdul Mutallab recently retired as Chairman of First Bank - one of Nigeria's foremost financial institutions - was able to beat security checks at the MMA in Lagos.

Local newspapers Sunday wondered how Mutallab was able to beat security checks in Lagos and Amsterdam, after Demuren said Mutallab indeed passed through aviation security system comprising of walk-through metal detector and baggage X-ray screening machine at the Lagos airport.

He said Nigerian authorities were willing and prepared to assist in any investigation that would unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident, and assured travellers and the international community that Nigeria aviation was safe and secured-having passed the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) audit and US Transport Security Administration (TSA) audit.

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[insidejob]

According to Bilderberg expert, Daniel Estulin, the global elite has decided that Africa is the next continent to develop a continent-wide government. They want to use the World Bank and IMF to create a borderless continent. The idea hijacks a long-held aim of Pan-Africanists to create a government for Africa.

The elite fear that China, hunting for resources in Africa, will displace them. But they don't want to do it by making better trade deals. Subversion is their best bet. They wish to use Africom is a base for destabilising countries. Some national disaster or engineered national conflict will push African leaders into an African government that is led by the Western elite.

The engineered growth of Al Qaeda in black Africa may help and this is why the Nigerian bomb hoax happened.

I think that Mutallab's father pressured his son into doing this. It may be that he owes money or the UK has something on him. This is why Mutallab didn't make any real effort to stop his son. The visit to the US embassy was putting the final agreement to the exercise.

Afterall, given that Afghanis who have suffered Western aggression don’t blew themselves up in effort to take Westerners with them, why on Earth should a Nigerian?

By the way, thanks to Mark Gobell, who has done a lot of excellent research. I'll publicise his work to black newspapers.

[letthemeatmadeiracake]

[Mark Gobell]

From The Sunday Times
January 3, 2010

MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s UK extremist links

David Leppard

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The security services knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had “multiple communications” with Islamic extremists in Britain, it emerged this weekend.

Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was “reaching out” to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London.

Officials said the 23-year-old Nigerian was “starting out on a journey” in Britain that culminated in his attempt to bring down flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day.

None of the information was passed to American officials, which will prompt questions about intelligence failures prior to the attack.

British officials have now passed a file to their US counterparts on Abdulmutallab’s activities in Britain while he was a student from 2005 to 2008. It shows his repeated contacts with MI5 targets who were subject to phone taps, email intercepts and other forms of surveillance.

Intelligence officials have defended their decision not to flag Abdulmutallab as a possible terrorist risk. They say he was one of many youths who mix with extremists, but are not themselves thought to be involved in plotting or supporting terrorism.

A senior Whitehall official said the intelligence agency had conducted a quick assessment of Abdulmutallab while he was living in London and concluded that he was not a threat to national security.

“There had to be a judgment made depending on the nature of the relationship as to whether there was any threat,” said one official. “Someone will have judged: okay, [he is] noted but if there was no evidence of a threat, [they would] move on.”

British officials believe Abdulmutallab was recruited to undertake the Detroit plot after he left Britain, most probably while he was in Yemen last summer. Up to a dozen young British Muslims are thought to be engaged in terrorist training there, according to officials.

While in Britain, Abdulmutallab attended a mosque in Goodge Street, central London, which is run by the Muslim World League, a Saudi-based organisation. The league promulgates a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, but has repeatedly condemned terrorism.

One of the radical preachers believed to have inspired Abdulmutallab is the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is based in Yemen and is believed to have inspired several terrorist cells in Britain and the United States.

The Sunday Times has established that Abdulmutallab first encountered Awlaki while he was studying Arabic in Yemen in 2005.

US intelligence officials are now investigating the scale and nature of contacts between the two men.

— Britain and the US are to jointly fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen along with more support for the Yemeni coastguard. Downing Street said Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed the move as part of the response to the failed Detroit plot. The two countries will also be pushing for more UN intervention to tackle the emerging terrorist threat in Somalia.

Mr Brown will hold talks with ministerial colleagues and intelligence advisors this week, and the initial findings of a review of security at UK airports — ordered in the wake of the Detroit incident — will be delivered “in days”, according to Downing Street.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6973954.ece

[paul wright]

[Mark Gobell]

BBC

US shuts embassy as al-Qaeda 'plans attack in Yemen'

Page last updated at 22:32 GMT, Sunday, 3 January 2010

The US has indications that al-Qaeda is planning an attack in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser has said.

John Brennan was speaking after the US and UK announced their embassies in Sanaa had temporarily closed.

The US has accused a Yemen-based offshoot of al-Qaeda of being behind the alleged Christmas Day bomb attempt on a US jet flying to Detroit.

There are mounting fears that Yemen is becoming a leading al-Qaeda haven.

Mr Brennan, the US deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, told ABC the group had "several hundred members" in Yemen and was posing an increasing threat there.

"We know that they have been targeting our embassy, our embassy personnel," he said.

Speaking separately to CNN, he said there were indications that a radical US cleric of Yemeni origin had links both to the Christmas Day bomber and the man accused of the Fort Hood shooting massacre.

Links to cleric

Last week an organisation called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urged Muslims to help in "killing every crusader who works at their embassies or other places".

In an internet statement, the group also said it was behind an attempt to bomb a transatlantic airliner on Christmas Day.

On Saturday, President Barack Obama said the organisation appeared to have trained 23-year-old Nigerian accused Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is being held in a US prison.

Mr Brennan said there were "indications" that Mr Abdulmutallab had had direct contact with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been on the run in Yemen since December 2007.

It was clear, he said, that Mr Awlaki had also been in touch with Nidal Malik Hasan, the US army major charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood last year.

It was not immediately clear when the UK or US embassies in Sanaa would reopen.

In a statement on its website, the US embassy said it would be closed on Sunday "in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to attack American interests in Yemen".

The embassy also reminded US citizens in Yemen to be aware of security.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the British embassy was closed on Sunday and a decision would be taken later on whether to open it on Monday.

Hours earlier, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the BBC: "This is a new type of threat and it is from a new source which is obviously Yemen, but there are many other potential sources Somalia, as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan."

The US mission in Sanaa was the target of an attack in September 2008, which was blamed on al-Qaeda, and in which 19 people died, including a young American woman.

US aid

Also on Saturday, Gen David Petraeus, head of US military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, visited Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh to pledge US support for its fight with al-Qaeda.

The visit came a day after the general announced that the US would more than double counter-terrorism aid to Yemen this year.

The US provided $67m (£41m) in training and support to Yemen last year; only Pakistan receives more, with about $112m, according to AP news agency.

Yemeni officials said on Saturday they had sent more troops to fight al-Qaeda militants in the provinces of Abyan, Baida and Shabwa.

"These measures are part of operations to hunt down elements of al-Qaeda... and tighten the noose around extremists," a Yemeni official told AFP news agency.

Analysts say the US has also provided intelligence to Yemeni forces, which carried out raids last month that reportedly left dozens of militants dead.

In his weekly address on Saturday, President Obama said militant training camps in Yemen had already "been struck, leaders eliminated, plots disrupted".

Correspondents say the security situation in Yemen is complicated by an abundance of firearms, an insurgency in the north and a secessionist movement in the south.

But the prospects of re-asserting central government authority over the lawless areas where al-Qaeda is based look, in the opinion of some analysts, remote - even with beefed-up American support.

[TonyGosling]

I notice that Britain severed diplomatic relations with Yemen last night.
The final step before another 'undeclared' war. #
PR people @ MoD have identified severing Diplomatic Relations as the wrong story so have dressed it up as a simple 'embassy closure'.
Fie on the FO spin machine blagards.

[TonyGosling]

Just to focus on the hard facts the MSM are Censoring for a mo.



Michigan couple claims it saw Nigerian terror suspect trying to board Flight 253 without a passport
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/28/2009-12-28_did_he_ board_without_a_passport.html
Sunday, December 27th 2009, 11:00 PM

A Michigan couple on the Detroit-bound flight that was almost blown up Christmas Day say they saw the Nigerian terror suspect trying to board without a passport.

Kurt and Lori Haskell, both bankruptcy lawyers, told the Daily News they saw a sharply dressed Indian man in his 50s - who did not get on the flight - trying to talk an Amsterdam gate agent into letting the suspect board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 without his passport.

If the suspect did get on the plane without showing his passport, the security lapse would be the most shocking yet.

Nigerian authorities said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, left Lagos on a KLM flight to Amsterdam with a valid Nigerian passport - No. A3921640.

It was not immediately clear if he showed the passport at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

The Haskells, who were playing cards on the floor near the Northwest check-in desk in Amsterdam, say they saw Abdulmutallab, 23, with an escort who was arguing with the gate agent.

"He said, 'He needs to get on this plane, but he doesn't have a passport.' The ticket-taker said something like, 'You can't board without a passport.' The Indian man said, 'He is from Sudan, we do this all the time,'" said Lori Haskell.

"I think they were trying to make this guy look like a Sudanese refugee and take pity on him," she said.

"He was dressed all kind of poor," she said, while the Indian man was wearing a "more expensive suit than we would wear to court."

The gate agent said they would have to talk with a supervisor and took them away. Kurt Haskell said the terrorist, who looked like a teenager, never said a word. The Haskells say they didn't notice him again until they were all 10 minutes from landing.

Then flames were licking up the side of the plane, a flight attendant was spraying a fire extinguisher and passengers were jumping on Abdulmutallab.

Kurt Haskell said the battle lasted just seconds. "He didn't fight back at all," he said.

The Haskells, who were returning to Newport, Mich., from a safari in Uganda, said the passengers were held in the Detroit airport for six hours. While waiting, they say, they saw a different Indian man taken away in handcuffs after a bomb-sniffing dog was alerted to his carry-on bag.

[Mark Gobell]

Nigeria: Lawmakers Divided Over Mossad - FG Link

Tashikalmah Hallah and Francis Okeke

5 September 2008

Members of the National Assembly have expressed different opinions on the alleged invitation of Israeli intelligence agency to train the country's security operations under a secret security pact.

Former Chairman House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Rep Abdullahi Farouk (PDP, Kebbi State), said Nigeria does not need Mossad or any foreign intelligence organisation to train the country's security agents because Nigeria has the best security training institution in the country.

However, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Senator Nuhu Aliyu, said he supports the alleged security pact with Israeli. He said "They (Mossad) are professionals and they are here to help train our own intelligence agents. I don't see anyway by which their presence in the country pose any threat to our National Security."

Speaking with Daily Trust in an interview, Rep Farouk said "You see, this question demeans Nigeria which is a big country. You need to know that in this continent Africa, Nigeria is the country that is providing security training for other nations and I don't think this issue will even arise. We have the best defence academy in Nigeria and it is even a degree awarding institution; the NDA Kaduna. They are also training people from other continents. So, I do not want to believe this; I think that is trash".

Although, Farouk said he could not deny or confirm the allegation since the security outfits can speak for themselves, he said Nigeria has its own pride to keep.

"I know as a Nigerian and also as a member of the National Assembly, we, as a country must jealously guard our own territorial integrity, our own respect as a nation and we should not allow people without proper invitation to come to our country for any negative act that would be detrimental to our collective resolve and national interest".

Also speaking to Daily Trust in a telephone interview, Senator Aliyu said the presence of Mossad in the country does not in any way pose threat to the internal security and sovereignty of Nigeria.

He said "as one of the best intelligence agency in the world, Nigeria stands to benefit a lot from the training arrangement between the Mossad and her security agencies.
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"Israel is about the best country in the world in terms of intelligence and security. We are not giving away anything except that our own agents will benefit from their wealth of experience during the training".

On whether the training agreement has any link with insinuations by some foreign countries that terrorists groups exist in Nigeria, the Senator said, "I don't think so. Really I want to say that there is no link between such intelligence report and what is going on now. They are only here to impact on our intelligence agents. There is no way it will affect our national security negatively."

Aliyu therefore called on Nigerians not lose sleep on the matter saying, "We are not giving anything away. I want to assure all Nigerians that the agreement will not affect the country's security."


AllAfrica.com

[Mark Gobell]

Flight 253.

The number 253 is a product of the 9 th prime x 11

[scubadiver]

[Mark Gobell]

LOL Hi Scuba.

Modern convention has it that 1 is not now considered a Prime.

I've discovered that it used to be though and only recently found out that the likes of Aleister Crowley in all his Magick considered 1 to be Prime also.

Apparently, if 1 is a Prime then the entire basis of mathematics would crumble. I don't understand it and can't explain it, much like the square root of minus 1.

I've only just started to examine the use of primes in deciphering the date patterns and relationships.

Prime Factors are used in some encryption systems.

[Mark Gobell]

Farouk1986, the alleged forum user name of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab posted some potentially incriminating comments about his fantasy of Jihad.

[Mark Gobell]

Erm which set of lies should we be telling today Gordon?

[insidejob]

IS THE NIGERIAN BOMBER STORY A RACIST HOAX?

The Nigerian Al Qaida bomber story is set to damage black people worldwide despite growing doubts about its credibility.

Evidence of hidden truth includes an October 2008 Yemeni government announcement of the arrest of an Israeli-backed Al Qaida cell that had attacked the US embassy.

The story has another Israeli connection because Alhaji Mutallab, father of bomber, Abdul, has had regular contact with its spy agency, Mossad.

Black leaders should be warned that a myth is developing that could convince them to accept self-defeating policies from the West.

Black people should try to overcome any psychological obstacles to questioning a Western agenda that will ramp up intervention in Africa and treat them as potential terrorists.

The Israeli connection is raised in a BBC report that quoted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He told a gathering at Mukalla University in Hadramawt province: "A terrorist cell was arrested and will be referred to the judicial authorities for its links with the Israeli intelligence services."
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7656807.stm

Mutallab’s father was a government minister and prominent banker. He also ran Nigeria’s defence industry that has constant support from Israeli intelligence.
- www.sunday.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article& id=2390:mutallab-an-accomplished-banker&catid=41:latest-news&Itemid=26
- www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105679.html

Other evidence challenging the official account of Flight 253 from Amsterdam to the US comes from Detroit Attorney and passenger, Kurt Haskell.
- www.detnews.com/article/20091228/METRO/912280382/1410/Passenger-says -accused-terrorist-got-help-boarding.
- www.mathaba.net/news/?x=622472

He claims that a:
• well-dressed Indian helped Mutallab get on the flight without a passport,
• second Indian man, who was a passenger, was arrested as a suspect bomber,
• passenger on the plane filmed the whole event.

After initially denying the second arrest, US officials have now admitted it but claimed that it was unconnected to the Mutallab bomb attempt.

Western media have already admitted that US and UK intelligence had advance warning of the attack, knew that Mutallab had links with extremists, and suggested that the planned airport body scanners is a scam.
- www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/are-planned-airport-scanners -just-a-scam-1856175.html

Yet, there are other anomalies being reported in alternative media:

• CIA has been helping ‘rogue’ Yemen to fight ‘terrorists’ for a year,
- www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114817&sectionid=351020206
• Mutallab’s central London flat, according to the UK Land Registry, was not owned by his father’s but by a US airline company,
- www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id =4631:northwest-flight-253-leg-bomber-is-son-of-drumaru-abdul-muttalab -former-first-bank-chairman-from-yaraduas-home-state-katsina&catid=1:l atest-news&Itemid=18-
• Alhaji warned a retired security officer about his son but not the actual Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA),
- http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

According to Pan African News Wire, the Nigerian Guardian has reported:
‘The Guardian gathered last night that even as the NIA chief executive faces the challenge of answering the query from the NSA, the presidency has been told that contrary to earlier reports that the lead and indeed activities of Umar Farouk (Jnr) were reported to Nigeria's security agencies, "the father only reported it to a former National Security official who served under President Obasanjo, who in turn reportedly informed one of the directors at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The director obviously did nothing about the lead until the current incident happened.”

The official story claims that Abdul Mutallab wanted revenge for US bombing in Afghanistan. He had become radicalised while studying in London and living in a £4m flat. He was trained by a growing and active Al Qaida cell in Yemen. But his potentially powerful, chemical powder bomb failed to detonate and only injured him.
- www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/terrorism-uksecurity

Yet, US, UK and NATO intelligence have carried out terrorism under the guise of the Left in the 1980s. The head of Italy’s security service was jailed for his involvement in the Red Brigade terrorism that included the infamous Bologna rail station bombing.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

The current story does not add up. Would anyone believe that an Afghani would do a suicide bombing because of the deaths of Nigerian people relating to Shell Oil’s activity?

Despite the many innocent victims of US bombing in Afghanistan, we haven’t we heard of a single Afghani suicide bomb attempt on a US passenger jet.

There is no reason to believe that a young, wealthy Nigerian, would kill himself and others for Afghanistan, whether under Al Qaida mind control or not.

An immediate affect of the official account will be that flying, particularly to and from Africa, will be made more difficult than usual. More people of African descent in the UK and US would come under racial profiling and surveillance.
- www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-how-mi5-blackmails -british-muslims-1688618.html

Meanwhile, the West will increase its intervention in black Africa affairs and blame Al Qaida. The US will also claim that they have a good reason to set up the military base that they have wanted. They will resort to a greater use of military contractors and special operations. African nations could face more conflict and even less democracy.

On the back of Al Qaida in Africa will follow Western leaders’ quiet push to use the IMF and World Bank to create a pan-African government. It would have a central bank, a single currency and single military command dependent on the West. Although, some African leaders are fronting the pan-African idea, the US is behind it.
- http://allafrica.com/stories/200912100945.html

But, nations could find themselves in more debt to Western banks and end up supporting Western companies take over African resources.

If the West’s panic over global warming is added, Africans may have to agree to slowing down their economic development and seeking ways to reduce their populations.
- http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=6710
- http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/hinrichsen_robey.html

Black people should question the ‘Al Qaida in black Africa’ story before it takes root and does harm.

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[Mark Gobell]

Webster Tarpley, as usual, telling it like it actually is.

[Mark Gobell]

[insidejob]