the least bit surprised if one occurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/12/old-false-flag-trick.html
You know, Chief, this nude bomb might solve a lot of problems. For one
thing, flashers.... And there'd be no more trouble with concealed weapons. I
mean, if everyone were nude, there'd be no place to hide a gun or knife.
Well, there is a place, but it could be painful.
Maxwell Smart, the redoubtable Agent 86, finding the upside to KAOS's
terrorist threat to destroy the world's clothing with its dreaded Nude
Bomb.*
In an utterly predictable response to an unsuccessful attempt by a would-be
Jihadist to emasculate himself in mid-air by detonating a small explosive
charge (a very small one, of course), the Regime is moving, slowly but
inexorably, in the direction of requiring airline passengers to strip nude.
There is plentiful evidence to suggest that the same Regime acted as an
accomplice -- most likely a passive one -- in that same failed bombing
attempt. Call it a delayed-action nude bomb: One Nigerian nutcase conceals a
firecracker in his wedding tackle, and before long everybody will have to
strip nude in order to fly.
Granted, the nudity would be "virtual," temporary, and limited in its
exposure. Passengers would be violated one at a time by the same thoughtful
people who have made a career out of rifling through other people's dirty
underwear.
Airport security screeners have "got to have some way of detecting things in
parts of the body that aren't easy to get at," insists former Homeland
Security Commissar Michael Chertoff. "It's either pat-downs or imaging."
A third alternative is to avoid commercial aviation outright whenever
possible. I suspect an ever-larger number of Americans are going to join me
in choosing what's behind door number three.
Government is the only human enterprise that profits from failure. Once that
principle is understood, many otherwise inexplicable choices made by ruling
elites and their servants can be made intelligible.
For instance, we can begin to understand the perverse persistence
governments display in courting preventable catastrophes, and then
capitalizing on such incidents to enhance their powers to do exactly the
same things that resulted in disaster. In this case, in addition to
requiring the helotry to undergo unconscionable personal violations before
flying, the Regime is exploiting the incident aboard Northwest Flight 253 to
escalate the ongoing military assault on Yemen, thereby increasing the human
misery that helps propel international terrorism.
And so it is that the Regime -- which has squandered trillions of debased
dollars in the name of "fighting terrorism" (hundreds of billions to build a
domestic garrison state, and even greater sums to conduct wars of aggression
overseas) -- will continue to do exactly the same thing following an episode
that demonstrates, beyond serious dispute, that the "war on terror" has done
exactly nothing to make Americans safer.
While it's not clear that the flight was in mortal danger, it is clear that
the plot failed because a detonator failed to ignite, and a group of
passengers shed the shackles of government-imposed docility to subdue the
terrorist suspect. The attempt to massacre the passengers of Flight 253 was
stopped without the Regime's help -- and in spite of what has to be
considered, at very best, the Regime's criminal negligence.
Owing to what must have been an anguished report from his father, Umar
Abdulmutallab was known to the CIA and the State Department as a potential
terrorist. Umar Mutallab the elder, a banking official from Nigeria, met
personally with CIA officials to express concerns that his son -- who had
gone to Yemen for the supposed purpose of studying Arabic -- was falling
into the company of suspected terrorists.
U.S. officials took this valuable intelligence and promptly buried
Abdulmutallab's name in an official database. Yet it was not placed on the
official "no-fly list"; apparently, that status is reserved for people who
make themselves troublesome to the Executive Branch without actually posing
a threat to innocent people.
Additional layers of official negligence were revealed by a passenger named
Kurt Haskell, who was next to Abdumutallab as the would-be bomber checked in
at the airport in Amsterdam:
"An Indian man in a nicely dressed suit around age 50 approached the check
in counter with the terrorist and said `This man needs to get on this flight
and he has no passport.' The two of them were an odd pair as the terrorist
is a short, black man that looked like he was very poor and looks around age
17 (although I think he is 23 he doesn't look it). It did not cross my mind
that they were terrorists, only that the two looked weird together. The
ticket taker said `you can't board without a passport.' The Indian man then
replied, `He is from Sudan, we do this all the time.' I can only take from
this to mean that it is difficult to get passports from Sudan and this was
some sort of sympathy ploy. The ticket taker then said `You will have to
talk to my manager,' and sent the two down a hallway. I never saw the Indian
man again as he wasn't on the flight. It was also weird that the terrorist
never said a word in this exchange. Anyway, somehow, the terrorist still
made it onto the plane. I am not sure if it was a bribe or just sympathy
from the security manager."
Haskell also says that he stood a few yards away from another Indian man who
was handcuffed and held in customs "after a bomb sniffing dog detected a
bomb in his carry on bag and he was searched after we landed. This was later
confirmed while we were in customs when an FBI agent said to us `You are
being moved to another area because this area is not safe. Read between the
lines. Some of you saw what just happened.'.... What also didn't make the
news is that we were held on the plane for 20 minutes AFTER IT LANDED!. A
bomb could have gone off then. This wasn't too smart of security to not let
us off the plane immediately."
Assuming that Haskell's account is correct, Abdulmutallab received some
variety of official help to board the plane, and may have been part of a
team of bombers. The reported connection to India is of particular interest,
given a growing dispute between Mumbai and Washington over a Pakistani-born
U.S. citizen allegedly involved in the 2008 terrorist rampage at the Taj
Mahal Hotel that left 166 people dead.
David Headley (nee Daood Syed Ginlani; he changed his name in 2006) moved
from Pakistan to Philadelphia in 1977.
After being convicted of heroin smuggling in 1998, Ginlani served 15 months
before agreeing to work as an informant for the DEA. Indian officials
believe that Headley/Ginlani was working for the federal government -- the
CIA and FBI, in addition to the DEA -- up until last October, when he was
arrested in Chicago.
Indian officials accuse Headley of working with Pakistan's ISI intelligence
agency in coordinating the Taj Mahal Hotel assault. They also assert that in
a return trip to India last March, Headley cased potential targets for
another terrorist attack by the Lashkar-e-Taiba ("Army of the Pure"), a
Pakistani terrorist group. Indian officials are desperate to question
Headley, but Washington refuses to grant access.
After wading in the tenebrous waters of the global "intelligence community,"
brief recap is appropriate here:
The CIA was informed that Abdumutallab was a potential terrorist. Yet he
wasn't put on the "no-fly list," and was even permitted to board a
U.S.-bound plane without a passport. The individual who reportedly
shepherded the bomber aboard the plane was a well-dressed, official-looking
fellow from India. After Flight 253 landed in Detroit, a second individual
from India was arrested after a bomb was detected in his luggage. All of
this happens a little more than a year after India suffered an horrific
terrorist attack in which (according to both U.S. and Indian intelligence
officials) an American intelligence asset named David Headley was
implicated. Headley is in the custody of the government that employed him as
an informant, and which now refuses to permit investigators representing a
supposed ally to interrogate him.
Those of a cynical cast of mind might wonder if RAW (the Research and
Analysis Wing, India's CIA) had helped Abdumutallab hitch a ride on Flight
253 in order to send a message to Langley. Those whose cynicism is a bit
riper might wonder if the boys at Langley had become aware of the plot
involving Abdumutallab and permitted it to go forward in the service of
Washington's agenda -- which includes escalating a previously covert
military campaign in Yemen, the country where the jockstrap bomber
reportedly was tutored in terrorism by al-Qaeda.
Whenever somebody ventures into conspiratorial speculation of this kind he
can expect a reminder from the bien-pensants that government is too inept to
carry out secret schemes of such detail and complexity.
Dismissive arguments of that kind generally come from people who are quite
convinced of the ability of that same incompetent government to carry out
very challenging undertakings, such as running a nationalized health-care
system, or creating western-style democracy in Iraq.
While it is true that government is incurably incompetent with respect to
any genuinely worthwhile productive enterprise, it is an astonishingly
efficient engine of plunder and destruction. However useless the CIA and its
kindred agencies may be in collecting and analyzing reliable intelligence,
they display considerable gifts when it comes to arranging politically
useful mischief.
One useful case study that bears more than a passing resemblance to the
abortive bombing of Flight 253 in the plot to carry out a bombing rampage in
New York City following the first World Trade Center attack in 1993.
Omar Abdel-Rahman, the radical Egyptian mullah who was convicted in 1996 of
inspiring and giving direction to that plot, became a CIA asset in 1987,
despite the fact that he was on a State Department terrorist "watch list."
Abdel-Rahman's role was to recruit mujahadeen to fight the Soviets in
Afghanistan, and to act as a cut-out to provide them with financial and
material aid. He remained on the CIA's payroll after the Red Army left
Afghanistan in January 1989.
In 1990, Abdel-Rahman obtained a visa to travel to the United States -- once
again, despite the fact that his name was on a "watch list." It was his
monumental good fortune to apply for that visa at the U.S. consulate in
Khartoum while the official who usually handles such details was out to
lunch; that official's replacement was a CIA operative.
Abdel-Rahman's relocation to Brooklyn was arranged by a small knot of
radicals who included at least two people who were on Washington's payroll:
Mahmoud Abouhalima, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (the taproot of
modern Islamic terrorism and -- not surprisingly -- a major beneficiary of
CIA largesse) who had been part of a CIA-sponsored mujahadeen group in
Afghanistan; and former Special Forces Captain Ali A. Mohammed, an
Egyptian-born member of Islamic Jihad who had recruited and trained Muslim
warriors to fight in Afghanistan.
Mohammed, it was later revealed, also worked as an informant for the FBI.
It's not clear if he was on the Bureau's payroll at the time of the 1993 WTC
bombing. If so, that means that there were two FBI assets within that
cell -- Mohammed and an Egyptian intelligence agent named Emad Salem.
Although the January 1993 WTC bombing failed to achieve its objective --
which was to collapse one of the towers into the other, creating a domino
effect that would have slaughtered thousands -- the assault did kill several
people and injure hundreds more.
Salem, who secretly recorded many of his conversations with his FBI
handlers, later revealed that the FBI had detailed prior knowledge of that
plot and had promised him that the WTC bomb would secretly be rendered inert
before it was used.
"You saw this bomb went off ... and you know that we could avoid that,"
Salem rebuked FBI special agent John Anticev following the blast. "You get
paid, guys, to prevent things like this from happening."
After the bombing, the FBI inserted Salem into the cell once again. In that
capacity he helped create a "battle plan" that targeted various official
buildings in New York City, as well as the Holland and London tunnels.
On June 23, 1993, FBI agents arrested the plotters as they were mixing
fertilizer and diesel fuel to build another bomb.
This story (which I have recounted in greater detail elsewhere) took a
really interesting turn just shortly before Abdel-Rahman's trial. Ali
Mohammed, who played a central role in the first WTC attack, was listed as
an "un-indicted co-conspirator" with Abdel-Rahman. Roger Stavis, the
attorney for indicted co-conspirator El Sayyd Nosair, attempted without
success to deliver a subpoena to Mohammed as a defense witness. Mohammed --
who was in federal custody -- didn't answer the summons.
In March 2001, Mohammed pleaded guilty -- in exchange for
"considerations" -- to charges arising from the 1998 bombings of U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 258 people. He then promptly
disappeared without being sentenced.
Intelligence analyst J.M. Berger, publisher of the valuable Intelwire news
service, points out that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who was
considered the Justice Department's "top gun" on al-Qaeda, regarded Mohammed
as the architect of "al Qaeda's terrorist infrastructure in the U.S."
On the basis of his extensive study of the available evidence, Berger
concludes that Mohammed "called the shots" on the 1993 WTC bombing -- the
man behind Ramzi Yousef, the individual convicted of building the bomb --
and was the most important organizer of the network behind the 9/11 assault.
And Mohammed -- a former U.S. Special Forces sergeant and FBI asset -- is
being protected by the Regime to this day.
Many serious and sober people believe that the accepted narrative of the
9/11 atrocities is entirely fictitious. But in light of the role played by
veteran U.S. asset Ali Mohammed, it's incontestable that the attack was, in
some sense, an "inside job" even if one accepts the standard "nineteen
Muslims armed with boxcutters" version of the event.
According to the Regime, Abdulmuttab is telling his interrogators that there
are many more mad bombers in the pipeline. This is probably true, and it's
likely that at least some, if not most, of them have cashed checks written
by the same people who hired the likes of Adbel-Rahman and Ali Mohammed.
False-flag terrorism is among the oldest tricks in the intelligence
playbook. It has been an official option of the military-industrial-homeland
security complex since 1962, when General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, filed the "Operation Northwoods" memorandum
outlining various elaborate schemes to stage terrorist attacks against
Americans as pretexts for war.
It's doubtful that this side of eternity we'll ever learn the full truth
about 9/11 or the first World Trade Center bombing. But we have learned
enough from those atrocities, as well as subsequent episodes of what Lew
Rockwell aptly calls "security theater," to justify suspicions that the
Christmas drama aboard Flight 253 was another example of what Maxwell Smart,
the patron saint of self-important spooks, would call the old "False-Flag
Trick."
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*Yes, I'm aware that this quote comes from the dismal, vulgar, and lifeless
1980 film The Nude Bomb, which discerning Smartians consider apocryphal at
best.
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