No real bang in there.
This guy won't be causing anymore trouble.
"Plane suspect says little in court; Not guilty plea is entered at arraignment" by Ed White and David Runk, Associated Press | January 9, 2010
DETROIT - A Nigerian man accused of trying to ignite an explosive on a Detroit-bound US airliner on Christmas appeared before a judge for the first time yesterday, against a backdrop of protesters who stood outside the courthouse waving American flags and denouncing acts of terror....
Authorities say the 23-year-old Nigerian with Al Qaeda links was traveling to Detroit from Amsterdam when he tried to destroy the plane carrying nearly 300 people by injecting chemicals into a package of explosives concealed in his underwear. The failed attack caused popping sounds and flames that passengers and crew rushed to extinguish.
Yup, the same crew that handled 9/11 and shoe-bomber security!
Related:
The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism
Israeli firm 'failed to detect would-be bomber'
An Israeli security firm has come under fire for failing to detect Nigerian bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab despite separate US intelligence failures, an Israeli paper reported on Sunday.
Israeli firm blasted for letting would-be plane bomber slip through
The Israeli firm ICTS International (not to be confused with ICTS Europe, which is a different company), and two of its subsidiaries are at the crux of an international investigation in recent days, as experts try to pinpoint the reasons for the security failure that enabled Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board Northwest flight 253 and attempt to set alight explosives hidden in his underwear.Ball is now in your court, Glob.
Obama considers the Christmas attack an attempted strike against the United States by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. He also has said the government had information that could have stopped Abdulmutallab, but intelligence agencies failed to connect the dots.
See: Detroit and Domestic Tyranny
A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab earlier this week on six charges. The most serious - attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction - could land Abdulmutallab in prison for life if convicted. During yesterday’s arraignment, Abdulmutallab, who wore a white T-shirt, tennis shoes, and a chain shackle at his ankles, stood at the podium and answered questions in English from US Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon. He said “yes’’ when asked if he understood the charges against him and said he had taken “some pain pills’’ after the judge inquired whether he had taken any drugs or alcohol in the past 24 hours.
Were those also for the torture?
Abdulmutallab, who is being held at a federal prison in Milan, Mich., had been treated at a hospital for burns after the attack.... His attorneys then waived the reading of the indictment, and Randon entered the not guilty plea. It is routine practice in federal court for the defendant to allow the judge to enter a plea rather than say anything himself.
His defense attorney, Miriam Siefer, did not challenge the government’s request to keep Abdulmutallab in pretrial custody. US investigators have said Abdulmutallab told them he received training and instructions from Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen. His father warned the US Embassy in Nigeria that his son had drifted into extremism in Yemen, but that threat was never fully digested by the US security apparatus.
Yeah, the dad: Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Crotch Bomber Case
Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has said Abdulmutallab would be offered a plea deal in exchange for valuable information about his contacts in Yemen and elsewhere.
That is usually what they do with one of their agents.
Related: The Autistic Informant
More omissions from the Boston Globe. Great.
After the hearing, one of his attorneys, Leroy Soles, declined to talk about the case. “It’s just too soon in the process to make any comment,’’ Soles said at a nearby coffee shop. The date of the next hearing was not set. Maryam Uwais, a lawyer in Nigeria, and Mahmud Kazaure, a lawyer from Maryland, said they were sent by Abdulmutallab’s family to observe the hearing. Neither has a role in the case, but both spoke briefly with the suspect’s legal team. They declined to comment further.
Earlier in the day, authorities set up metal barricades outside the courthouse and limited foot traffic in the area. A protester stood holding a sign that read: “No U.S. Rights For Terrorists.’’
About 50 men and women identifying themselves as Detroit-area Muslims chanted “We are Americans’’ as they marched behind metal barricades outside the courthouse to denounce terrorism. About a dozen of them carried US flags or signs with messages such as “Not in the name of Islam.’’
Four Muslims who were part of the protest performed Friday prayers in the court’s small museum located on the first floor.
“We have prayer rugs outside in the car. We could have done a show for the media,’’ protest organizer Majed Moughni said. “We’re doing this for God.’’
Don't they scare you, America?
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Hey, not to worry!
They got that guy, and no other false-flagging patsies will be making it through!
"Amid security worry, analysts cite limits of terror watch lists" by Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press | January 9, 2010
Oh, I guess not.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A month before a Nigerian man whom American intelligence suspected of terrorist ties tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner, Indonesian authorities successfully used a US watch list to pick out an arriving passenger.
The arrest of Filipino Abdul Basir Latip, a suspected Al Qaeda-linked militant, is an example of effective counterterrorism intelligence-sharing at a time when the aviation community is examining security failures that allegedly enabled Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a plane on Christmas Day with explosives-laden underwear.
Yeah, INTERESTING, huh, cui bono??
President Obama has ordered new terror watch list guidelines after the attempted attack - though Abdulmutallab was in an intelligence database, he was not on a no-fly list - but analysts say such lists are only a small part of successful counterterrorism. Information-sharing and proper analysis of data are key.
Yup, NOTHING about the Indian man helping him board and on the plane with him, nothing about the second arrest, nothing about anything but bulls***!!
Oh, right, I'm reading the Boston Globe here!
“Lists are valuable in making sure governments around the world are able to track individuals,’’ said Dr. John Harrison, an aviation security specialist at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. “But you don’t want to put too much emphasis on these lists. It’s an overstatement to say: ‘OK, now we are safe.’ ’’
While lists are a valuable intelligence tool, they cannot be solely relied upon to prevent terrorists from boarding flights, Harrison said. Even though Abdulmutallab, 23, was not on a watch list, his behavior should have triggered alarms that would have led to his capture anyway, he said. Abdulmutallab’s ticket was apparently paid for in cash, and he was flying the same day and had no check-in luggage. Together, those details should have tripped a standard international security procedure, Computer Assisted Passenger Screening or CAPS, Harrison said.
Not everyone agrees with you:
"Erik Ackerboom, head of the Dutch counterterrorism bureau, dismissed suggestions that Abdulmutallab should have aroused suspicion when he paid for a round-trip ticket from Lagos to Detroit in cash and had no check-in luggage. Paying cash in Africa is not unusual, he said, and the lack of a checked suitcase “wasn’t a reason for alarm.’’
???!!???
“This case seems more to have been failure, not of lists, but a failure on the human side of intelligence, accurately assessing the threat and tracking the information to see if there were any links,’’ he said. “It was an analytical failure.’’
US officials have said at least part of their failure to stop Abdulmutallab was because they had not put all the puzzle pieces together.
Alain Chouet, former chief of the security intelligence service at France’s counterintelligence agency, DGSE, estimates that roughly 600,000 names provided by national authorities are circulating on lists worldwide.
Yup, the GOVERNMENT-CREATED, -FUNDED, -and DIRECTED DATABASE of "terrorists!"
What do you mean there is no Al Qaeda?
But he says the way those names are gathered is faulty. He estimated such lists are only 10 percent reliable. “These are idiotic lists,’’ he said, adding some people are blacklisted based on anonymous accusations. “We don’t know how these lists are made.’’
I think I've got a pretty good idea.
In the Philippines, most of the approximately 100 people on a watch list have been charged with or sought by authorities in connection with previous violent crimes.
Yeah, HOW ARE THEY digging out after the RAIN, FLOODS, and OTHER DISASTERS from this FALL, Globe? Haven't heard much about that, lately.
In Indonesia, the names include hundreds of convicts, known associates of terrorists, and individuals identified by intelligence agencies as suspicious.
Again, SAME THING -- as us Amurkn newspaper readers digest the Zionist diarrhea stream of propaganda about "terrorists" page after f***ing page.
In Latip’s case, there was no information that the Filipino was planning an immediate attack, but he was a high-value target wanted for alleged involvement in the 1993 kidnapping of a Christian missionary by Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants who had eluded capture for years, according to Ric Diaz, a senior Philippine counterterrorism official.
The Indonesians were acting on a tip from Interpol, which was sharing information from a US watch list, when they nabbed him on Nov. 21 at Soekarno-Hatta international airport with the help of photographs provided by the FBI.
What, you TURN on one of your FALSE-FLAGGING PATSY FRAME-UPS, FBI?
He arrived from Syria using a fake passport.
Just kind of wondering what were the Mossad with fraudulent New Zealand Passports doing in Iraq?
ANOTHER STORY that either NEVER MADE IT or is QUICKLY GONE (organgate) in the Zionist AmeriKan MSM.
Hmmmm.
TOO MUCH of a PATTERN!
This coordination is key to successful security, analysts said, more than the watch lists themselves.
Gee, you can ALMOST HEAR the CONSTRUCTION of the GLOBALIST CONTROL GRID all around you, huh?
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And SOMEBODY gonna get FIRED, right?
"Punish officials over airline plot, senators urge; Some lawmakers call for caution on detainee releases" by Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press | January 11, 2010
WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration begins to address the failings behind the Christmas Day airliner attack, two senators said yesterday that the United States should punish officials, correct security lapses, and limit opportunities to join jihad overseas.
Senators Joe Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona, took issue with President Obama’s suggestion that no one would lose his or her job over the incident. In interviews on CNN’s “State of the Union,’’ neither senator called specifically for someone to be fired nor did they name who should be disciplined.
Also see: Just Another McCain Monday
Lieberman chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, pointed to breakdowns at the State Department and the National Counterterrorism Center:
“At the National Counterterrorism Center, something went wrong. So if human errors were made, I think some of the humans who made those errors have to be disciplined so that they never happen again.’’
And WHERE WERE YOU after 9/11, Joe?! PFFFFFT!
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Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,’’ Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, was asked whether Obama should fire Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, National Counterterrorism Center head Michael Leiter, or presidential counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Kyl said the advisers reflect the sentiments of the president. “I think the president was right when he said, ‘The buck stops with me.’ The problem is he can’t be fired right now,’’ Kyl said. “So what he’s got to do is provide a sense of urgency with these people who work for him.’’
No, but he CAN BE IMPEACHED!
Oh, yeah, YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS anymore!
Related: The Xmas Gift That Keeps on Giving
Other lawmakers said the United States should be more careful about releasing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to countries where Al Qaeda has a presence, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan....
Oh, OF COURSE! ANOTHER PIECE of the AGENDA ADVANCED!
On Sunday, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that a Saudi rehabilitation program for detainees has had mixed results and that individuals should not be sent there. “You shouldn’t be sending them back to Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan,’’ he said. “Because the evidence is clear - these people are released and a number of them go back onto the battlefield.’’
FLASHBACK:
US Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he had been told by credible sources that the US government knew that Abdulmutallab was involved with Al Qaeda for at least a couple of months, perhaps even a couple of years, he said.
Now THINK ABOUT THAT PARAGRAPH for a minute.
Hoekstra MUST have been told by SOURCES OUTSIDE the U.S. GOVERNMENT judging by the way it was written.
And JUST WHO COULD THAT BE, readers?
WHOSE LIES did we go to war over, hmmm?
Hoekstra said his sources have told him that the suspect has ties to Yemen and “most likely’’ has ties to Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who led mosques in San Diego and later in Falls Church, Va., and who met with several Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers before the attacks.
PFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!
Awlaki, a US citizen, moved to Yemen a few months after the attacks. Abdulmutallab apparently traveled to Yemen and may have been in contact with Awlaki, Hoekstra said. “Both of these should have been a trigger,’’ he said. “So somewhere along the line, the process appeared to break down.’’
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Representative Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said on “The Early Show’’ on
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So WHEN is the NEXT FALSE FLAG TERROR ATTACK coming, Pete, because YOU SEEM to have the SOURCES!!!
You see who Hoekstra is working and speaking for, right?
Another Zionist mouthpiece:
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, agreed that more care must be taken in releasing detainees. “I agree with those that have said that Guantanamo has really been a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, that it has not been helpful to us,’’ she said.
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FLASHBACK:
"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said there should have been swift action after a prominent Nigerian alleged that his son was becoming radicalized. "It seems to me that when this happens, the person should go automatically on the no-fly list," she said. "I'd rather, in the interest of protecting people, overreact rather than underreact."
--more--"Yeah, LET ME GIVE the TSA a call about a certain Dianne Feinstein, 'kay?
See how SHE LIKES a FALSE POSITIVE!!
"Although Republicans have criticized the transfers to Yemen, some Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein of California, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have also urged a halt"
Also see: The Politics of Terror
Some ain't buying the BULLS***, though!
BRUSSELS - Officials in the Middle East and Europe questioned tighter US airline security measures yesterday, saying increased body scanning and inspections of Arab passengers would be discriminatory and overly intrusive.
And because THEY KNOW WHAT YOU and I KNOW and what the Zionist newspapers will NEVER PRINT!
After the alleged Christmas Day attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner, the Obama administration said it would require more full-body pat-downs, searches of carry-on bags, full-body scanning, and explosive-detection technology at US airports.
And CUI BONO?
The European Union has said it may require member nations to put in more full-body scanning machines to conform with American security measures.
Related: "the EU indicated it may force nations to comply."
Aren't you GLAD YOU JOINED, Europeans?!!!"
But the European Union’s new top justice official said at a hearing yesterday that for privacy reasons, scans must be voluntary, not mandatory, and come with a guarantee they pose no health hazard.
Which they are: Full-Body Scanners to Fry Travelers With Radiation
Their images would have to be quickly destroyed.
Which they are not: TSA LIES: Body Scanners CAN Save and Transmit Images
The United States has also demanded more careful screening for people who are citizens of, or are flying from, 14 nations deemed security risks.
Start with the ISRAELI PLANES flying in WAR CRIMINALS, you know!?
Lebanon’s information minister, Tarek Mitri, complained that “citizens of different countries are singled out in a discriminatory fashion.’’
Well, a Zionist-dominated culture is great at doing that!
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"Passenger on flight to London is arrested
A 49-year-old passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight was arrested after the pilot made an unscheduled landing at Logan International Airport after 11 p.m. Monday, authorities said. The passenger, John Murray of Glasgow, pleaded not guilty yesterday in East Boston Municipal Court to charges of interfering with a flight crew.Related: Mossad's Manchurian Airline Passenger
Never followed up, 'eh, Glob?
The judge set bail at $300 and ordered Murray to return to court Dec. 1. The flight was heading from Philadelphia to London when a verbal altercation occurred between Murray and the crew. Murray had an arm or hand injury that required a splint and refused to move the bandaged limb out of the aisle despite several requests from the flight crew, according to Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney’s office.
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So what to make of all this?
"The reason they came up with an underwear bomber is the same reason they came up with a shoe bomber. First they wanted to get into your shoes and then they wanted to get into your underwear. After that they want to get into your body. But job one, day one, they want to get into your head.... Actually blowing up airplanes, unless there is a real need (like provocation to attack
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Yeah, LIKE THI$:
"Inspired product lands at Logan; Antiterrorism robot built with sons’ service in mind" by D.C. Denison, Globe Staff | January 12, 2010
The featured attraction at a press conference at Logan Airport today will be a robotic vehicle designed to disarm car and truck bombs. But the remarks by US Representative Niki Tsongas and others probably will focus on two soldiers who were killed in conflicts on the other side of the globe.
At the airport?
The purchase of the LandShark Series D robot, manufactured by Black-I Robotics in Tyngsborough, was funded by a congressional earmark sponsored by Tsongas, a Democrat from Lowell. The robot, to be unveiled this morning, will be used by the State Police Logan bomb squad to fight domestic terrorism.
Related: Legislative Looters in Your Ear
Oh, and say goodbye to your freedoms at the same time.
Black-I Robotics, which created the robot, was founded by brothers Brian and Richard Hart after Brian’s son, Private First Class John D. Hart, was killed in a roadside attack in Iraq in 2003.
Black-I Robotics’s Brian Hart and his wife, Alma, posed with a picture of their son John (left), who was killed in Iraq in 2003. Hart worked with Ted Kennedy to procure funds to better protect soldiers. (Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff/ File 2009)
Yeah, TED NEVER DID ANYTHING to END the WARS!!
Also see: MSM Xmas Gifts: War Profiteers
I guess what happened to his brother's took.
Hey, we were LIED IN THERE and have been LIED TO EVER SINCE, but hey, we are there now, so.....
In today’s ceremony, Logan’s new, unmanned ground vehicle will be dedicated to Lieutenant Derek Hines, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. Hines’s father, Steve Hines, is a lieutenant with the State Police who is stationed at Logan.
All this over lies, America? How much are you going to put up with?
A week before he died, John Hart told his parents that he was concerned that he and his fellow soldiers lacked body and vehicle armor.
Oh, THAT has been a ONGOING PROBLEM since BEFORE the WAR because -- to paraphrase Don Rumsfeld and George Bush -- YOU GO TO WAR with ARMY YOU HAVE, not the one you WISH TO HAVE even though it will be a war of OUR TIME and CHOOSING.
But FUCK the BODY ARMOR, we need BOMB-SNIFFING ROBOTS in the AIRPORTS!!!
After John Hart and his commanding officer were killed in an unarmored Humvee, Brian Hart worked with Senator Edward Kennedy to procure additional funds for better body armor and more armored vehicles for soldiers in Iraq.
Yeah, NOTICE Kennedy NEVER WORKED to GET THEM the HELL OUT of THERE?!!!
Hart then cofounded Black-I Robotics, to employ robotic technology to help protect troops from improvised explosive devices.
Unlike iRobot Corp. of Bedford and Foster-Miller of Waltham, much larger and better-known robotics firms, Black-I works primarily with off-the-shelf technology to reduce costs and increase flexibility and speed to market....
Related: War Looter's Wednesday: Peering Into the Future
More Drone Data Than They Know What to Do With
Brian Hart said:
“Most of our robots are used by the military, in war situations. We’ll be working with Logan’s bomb squad to continue increasing this robot’s effectiveness against domestic terrorism.’’
State Police Sergeant Brian Moran, who commands the bomb squad at Logan, said the robot will increase his squad’s ability to investigate and disarm explosives from a distance:
“It will give us options, and having more options is always a good thing. This will buy us distance, which is life in a lot of situations. Machines are replaceable; people are not.’’
Hart said the dedication of the robot to the memory of Derek Hines is fitting, and “will help us all remember why we’re doing this.’’
“Derek died protecting our country,’’ he said....
Americans capacity for $elf-$erving delu$ion is $tunning.
Ever wonder what is below you on the plane?
"Markey urges US to meet mandate on screening cargo
In the aftermath of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, the Obama administration has focused on beefing up the screening of airline passengers and streamlining intelligence efforts to keep suspected terrorists off planes.
But Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts reminded President Obama yesterday that there’s a deadline in August to screen all cargo on passenger aircraft as well. Markey, who authored a mandate to carry through the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission on cargo, sent a letter to Obama, urging him to intensify efforts to screen all inbound air cargo....
So how much PAC money is he getting?
And HOW AMAZING IS IT that after ALL THESE YEARS a "terrorist" was never able to penetrate this lax, behind-schedule, faulty system of cargo checking?
I think I SMELL SOMETHING!!!
The Transportation Security Administration has indicated that it expects to meet the August deadline for screening all domestic air cargo carried on passenger planes, but agency officials have told Congress that they will not meet the deadline for inbound air cargo coming from overseas, and only plans to screen so-called “high-risk’’ cargo from overseas, Markey’s office said.
What The F***, world?!!!
GOVERNMENT KNOWS "terror" is a FRAUD!!!!
Also see:
Mossad Tied to ‘Underwear Bomber’
Another significant detail is being neglected by mainstream media sources. The firm in charge of security at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is the Israeli-owned International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS).They’re also the same outfit responsible for all three airports used by “Muslim hijackers” on 9-11. ICTS also handled security for London’s bus system during their 7-7 “Muslim bombing,” while doing the same at Charles de Gaulle Airport when “shoe bomber” Richard Reid boarded a plane in Paris on Dec. 22, 2001.
We now have Marine combat veterans debunking the official propaganda about the Christmas airline bombing attempt on established veteran websites. The cavalry's finally coming, can you hear the trumpets? The comments on the Veterans Today article linked below are vital.
