The
Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab
Terrorism
Writers Articles And Opinions
4 January 2010
By Joe Quinn
Strange as it may seem, a couple of weeks ago as I
ruminated on Obama's broken promise to bring the
troops home, his attempt to out-warmonger the Bush
administration and his plummeting popularity, I
thought to myself: "ya know, what that guy (or rather
the disgruntled US public) needs is a good old
fashioned 'Muslim terror attack'. Preferably one that
includes a ranting 'terrorist' message about
Afghanistan and 'slaughtering infidels'. That'll soon
silence the rabble and get them behind Obama's Afghan
surge!"
And so it was that, as I sipped my eggnog on Christmas
day, I was shockingly unsurprised to read the
headlines about an 'underwear bomb' (as shown above).
To adequately address the recent airline "terror
attack" in Detroit and the airborne terror attacks in
Yemen we must delve into the topsy turvey world of the
'war on terror', where black is white, up is down, and
shady Middle Eastern-looking men and your knickers
share equal rating on the US DHS threat-o-meter. In
short, it's no easy task. So first of all, let me say
a few words about airports and the old and new airport
"security measures".
The nightmare that is modern commercial air travel
started with 9/11. Before this date, air travel was
reasonably civilized. There were no long queues (at
least not after check in). We just threw our hand
luggage on the security belt, walked through the
scanner and we were done.
After 9/11 however, every commercial airplane became a
potential flying bomb and passengers and their hand
luggage had to undergo more extensive searches. In Dec
2001, the theatrics of the clearly brain-washed
Richard Reid, aka "the shoe bomber", added the common
or garden shoe to the list of potential terrorist
weapons. Now, the equally bizarre antics of the young
Nigerian Mr Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has thrown our
underwear into the mix.
Both shoe and knicker bomber attempted to use PETN (a
military explosive) on their respective flights. As a
result, our shoes now go through scanners at airports
and I can only presume that more invasive scanning of
our lower torsos will also be mandated supposedly in
an effort to prevent further knicker attacks. The
problem, however, is this:
PETN, either in shoes or strapped to any part of the
body, cannot be detected by airport scanners. A
chemical test is needed. Unless authorities plan to
drastically reconfigure the number and availability of
international flights, there is no chance that
chemical tests can be introduced for every passenger.
Hence we reach our first tentative conclusion: that
the billions of shoes that have been scanned at
airports since 2001, and the billions of pairs of
underwear that will henceforth become objects of
official scrutiny, have and will have had nothing to
do with airport security or preventing terrorism.
So what's it all about?
Follow me now, as I metaphorically wade through the
vast piles of manure that constitute the raw material
for the official story of the latest 'terror attack'.
The Christmas knicker bomber was not your usual
disgruntled Arab or lowly Muslim acolyte. He was the
son of Nigerian banking mogul and former Nigerian
government minister Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, one of the
richest men in Africa. We're talking one of the
African colonial elite here, an African version of the
British "old boy's network" While in London, his son,
the knicker bomber lived in a ₤4 million
apartment in Mansfield Street, in the city's West End.
'Terrorist' Mutallab (center) with his young and
impressionable friends
He also enjoyed access to visas for several different
countries, including the US.
It is not surprising therefore to learn that the
knicker bomber apparently received special treatment
at Amsterdam airport before he boarded his flight to
Detroit. Eyewitness Kurt Haskell reported that a
sharply dressed Indian man escorted him to the gate
and told the attendant that the knicker bomber had no
passport but needed to get on the flight. The sharply
dressed man was told that he would have to speak to
the manager, which he apparently did and successfully
got the young 'terrorist' on board.
Now this requires some serious string pulling, and all
the hoopla in the press about whether or not the
security system worked is just hubris, because if the
knicker bomber appeared at the gate without a
passport, it is unlikely that he went through the
normal process up to that point, including check-in
which requires passengers to show their passports. In
all probability he was escorted as a VIP to the gate
by the sharply dressed man. So how do two suspicious
looking terrorists, at least one of them without a
passport, get to the gate in an airport and then onto
the flight? The answer is they don't unless they have
some diplomatic credentials or high-level contacts in
the airport.
Guess who runs the security at Amsterdam Schipol
airport? ICTS of course! the same Israeli owned
security company that somehow managed to let the shoe
bomber on his Miami flight in 2001 and several of
those mythical hijackers who allegedly flew out of
Boston's Logan airport on 9/11. It is also useful to
remember that the shoe bomber was cleared through ICTS
and El Al security at Amsterdam airport on a flight to
Tel Aviv in July 2001 for what was apparently an
all-expenses paid week-long trip to the Israeli city.
What precisely he did there remains a mystery.
All of which leads us to our second tentative
conclusion:
the knicker bomber and his handler were not
terrorists. Of course, it all depends on who you think
the real terrorists are...
Moving on to the bomb itself; as mentioned it was PETN,
or rather Pentaerythritol, which is a building block
for PETN. To make PETN, Pentaerythritol must be mixed
with concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids. It is
assumed that these acids were in the syringe that the
knicker bomber was attempting to inject, under the
cover of a blanket, into his underpants. He then
attempted to ignite the newly prepared PETN with some
kind of a fuse. He was apparently unaware that PETN
requires a shock wave rather than heat or flame to
detonate, and a shock wave is best provided by an
initiator explosive. In short, the whole enterprise
was doomed to failure from the beginning. Since the
bomber and his smartly-dressed handler were able to
get to the gate without passports, and are unlikely to
have passed through security, we are left to ponder
why the bomber didn't carry an explosive that required
much less preparation, like a half a stick of dynamite
for example.Here' s a short video of what a half stick
of dynamite does to a file cabinet.
Tentative conclusion number three therefore is that
the goal was not to actually 'kill infidels' but
rather to reinforce the concept of 'Muslim terrorism'.
In fact, it seems clear at this stage that the
combining of terrorism and commercial air travel is a
specific tactic by the real terror masters to maximise
fear. After all, it is difficult to think of a place
where the average citizen already feels more
vulnerable than on a metal tube hurtling through the
air at 35,000 feet. Add in a wild-eyed 'terrorist' and
you have the optimal psychological conditions for
fear-based programming.
In this particular case however, the knicker bomber
was far from wild-eyed. According to the first
passenger who attempted to subdue Mutallab on the
plane, he offered no resistance and was docile. He was
"staring into nothing" according to Dutch 'film maker'
Jasper Schuringa. Schuringa also noted that Mutallab
was actually on fire but showed no reaction
whatsoever. This is suggestive of someone who is in
some sort of trance. Indeed, Schuringa stated this
explicitly in this interview but immediately followed
it with the words, "I don't want to talk about that."
How very strange.
Equally strange is Schuringa's account of how he
subdued Mutallab:
as the plane neared its destination of Detroit,
Michigan, he heard a pop that sounded like a
firecracker going off, and someone started yelling:
"Fire! Fire!"
"Around 30 seconds later the smoke started to fill up
on the left side beneath this person," he said.
"I basically reacted directly. I didn't think."
He jumped over the passenger next to him and lunged
over Abdulmutallab' s seat, "Because I was thinking
he's trying to blow up the plane, and I was trying to
search his body for any explosives."
"I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish
the fire with my hands and threw it away,"
"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."
"The whole plane was screaming. The suspect, he didn't
say a word."
Schuringa said other passengers applauded as he walked
back to his seat. The reactions of the other
passengers seems normal. The reactions of Schuringa
are reminiscent of someone who has been trained in
anti-in-flight- terror tactics.
Jasper schuringa's camera image of Mutallab as he is
taken off the plane
According to reports Schuringa was on his way to visit
an 'Israeli friend', Shai Ben-Ami who owns a
restaurant in Miami. The flight landed at around noon
on Christmas day, and by that afternoon Ben-Ami had
become Schuringa's impromptu PR manager, aggressively
negotiating fees for interviews and the couple of cell
phone pictures that Schuringa had taken of Mutallab as
he was being taken off the plane.
Eyewitnesses on the flight also reported that after
Mutallab was taken off the plane the FBI arrested
another Indian-looking man in Detroit airport. The FBI
has since denied that anyone else was involved.
Patricia Keepman was on the flight with her husband,
daughter and two new adopted children from Ethiopia.
She reported that they were sitting about 20 rows
behind Mutallab. Her daughter said that ahead of them
was a man who videotaped the entire flight, including
the attempted detonation. "He sat up and videotaped
the entire thing, very calmly," said Patricia. "We do
know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since
then, we've heard nothing about it."
Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell and his wife
Passenger Kurt Haskell also reported that a third
Indian man was arrested after the plane landed in
Detroit airport. Haskell also claims that he has since
been visited by the FBI in what appears to be an
attempt to silence him and his report of a third man.
According to CNN, the knicker bomber's father
contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria recently with
concerns his son was planning something, that he had
become "radicalized" . His pleas apparently fell on
deaf ears.
Coincidentally, the Orwellian Patriot Act, passed on
the back of the 9/11 attacks, is up for either renewal
or trash-canning in a couple of weeks. What luck then
for Obama, who is secretly very fond of such draconian
powers, that the knicker bomber happened along,
because there is now a very good chance that the
Patriot Act will not only be enthusiastically renewed,
but unanimously so.
There is no chance however that any of these troubling
details will be discussed by the mainstream media,
because none of them are relevant to the story that
the US and Israeli governments want us to believe:
Yemen is crawling with "al-Qaeda"!!
Going Global
Initially, all we had was a Nigerian youth and a
misguided effort to detonate what we are told was an
explosive compound. Within 24 hours however,
IntelCenter, a group of US ex-military and
intelligence officials who over the years have somehow
managed to produce many of the "al-Qaeda" videos and
messages that they serendipitously find on "jihadist
websites", produced a picture of Mutallab with what
they claim is the flag of the media arm of "al-Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula" and a message from the group
claiming Mutallab as one of their own:
"We tell the American people that since you support
the leaders who kill our women and children ... we
have come to slaughter you (and) will strike you with
no previous (warning), our vengeance is near," the
statement said.
Scared yet? Well, the people at Intelcenter really
hope you are. They put a lot of effort into producing
these messages and videos and images. For example, a
2006 'al-qaeda' video featuring al-Zawahiri released
by Intelcenter was analyzed by Neal Krawetz, a
researcher and computer security consultant. During a
presentation he gave at the BlackHat security
conference in Las Vegas in 2007 about analyzing
digital photographs and video images for alterations
and enhancements, Krawetz showed that the video had
been altered in a very interesting way.
Using a program he wrote (and provided on the
conference CD-ROM) Krawetz could print out the
quantization tables in a JPEG file (that indicate how
the image was compressed) and determine the last tool
that created the image - that is, the make and model
of the camera if the image is original or the version
of Photoshop that was used to alter and re-save the
image.
A still from the the Intelcenter- faked "al-qaeda"
video
Krawetz took an image (above) from the 2006 video of
al-Zawahiri showing the Mr Magoo look-alike sitting in
front of a desk and banner with writing on it. After
conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to
determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri'
s head was added to the image afterward and at the
same time as the logo of IntelCenter, which released
the video. In short, it seems very likely that
IntelCenter produced the writing on the banner, and
probably the entire video, from whole cloth.
Despite this evidence, we are being asked to believe
that the latest message and photo from 'al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula' that IntelCenter just happened
to find on a "Jihadist internet message board" that
links Mutallab with 'al-Qaeda in Yemen' is authentic!
An image of Mutallab with 'al-qaeda logo' procured
(manufactured? ) by Intelcenter
The Yemen government, or rather dictatorship, added
its voice to the subterfuge by claiming that Mutallab
was in Yemen from August to December 2009. Dodgy
internet postings, as usual from unnamed 'jihadist web
sites' would have us believe he was putting the final
touches to his knicker bomb under the tutelage of
"al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" and specifically
Anwar al-Awlaki, the US born Muslim lecturer,
spiritual leader, and former imam. The very same al-Awlaki
who allegedly corresponded with Fort Hood
mind-programmed patsy Nidal Malik Hasan. The very same
al-Awlaki who was allegedly the spiritual adviser to
two of the 9/11 hijackers. Isn't it just wonderful how
it all connects together in one giant web of "Muslim
terrorism" that starts with 9/11?
The fact is, it all does start with 9/11, and the
evidence that the 9/11 were perpetrated by elements of
the US and Israeli governments is so abundant that no
further discussion is required. How Mutallab actually
passed his time in Yemen is however still open to
speculation, and speculation is always best when some
reasonably objective data is marshaled to back it up.
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