"The CIA, which in November compiled biographical data about Abdulmutallab.... but did not broadly share the information with other security agencies.... on Nov. 20, based on the father’s meeting, which included the CIA and the State Department, embassy officials wrote a cable.... US authorities did not alert Yemen when CIA operatives learned in August that the militant group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was planning to set in motion “a Nigerian bomber.’’"
Yup, also turns out that the STATE DEPARTMENT is UP TO ITS NECK in this!!
Related: A Diplomatic CIA
Oh, America!
"Spy agencies failed to connect dots on terror suspect; First sign of threat came in Aug., then father’s warning" by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Lipton, New York Times | December 31, 2009
What, AGAIN?!!!!
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but US spy agencies later failed to combine the intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s attempted airline bombing.
The electronic intercepts were translated and disseminated across classified computer networks, government officials said yesterday. But analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington did not synthesize the eavesdropping intelligence with information gathered in November when the father of the would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, visited the US Embassy in Nigeria to express concerns about his son’s radicalization.
Yeah, ABOUT the FATHER!
"Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover."
I hate to say I knew it, but I sure a shell suspected something was not right.
Yeah, a banker's son is a "terrorist."
Related:
Billions in Recent Yememi Investments and The Underwear Bomber’s Daddy. It’s a Small World Ain’t It? Daddy Warbucks, whose banking ties are under threat of serious set-backs, goes to the State Department and then the CIA and all of a sudden his lonely, college drop-out, populist son, ends up getting on a flight and setting his nuts on fire and the good-old U.S. of A can now come running in to the rescue to save all those precious investments in Yemen that are directly tied to, you guessed it, the underwear bomber’s daddy. A small world, ain’t it? I hope that clears things up a little bit.
Back to the COVER STORY:
The father, a wealthy businessman named Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, had urgently sought help from US and Nigerian security officials when cellphone text messages from his son revealed that he was in Yemen and had become a fervent radical.
Okay, so when you READ WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN think CIA AGENT, 'kay?
A family cousin quoted the father warning US officials in Nigeria: “Look at the texts he’s sending. He’s a security threat.’’ The cousin said: “They promised to look into it. They didn’t take him seriously.’’
Just as I am not taking this NYT PoS seriously.
The new details help fill in the portrait of an intelligence breakdown....
PFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!
In some ways, the portrait bears a striking resemblance to the failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, despite the billions of dollars spent over the last eight years to improve the intelligence flow and secret communications across America’s national security apparatus.
Yeah, JUST KEEP HUCKING, NYT!
Related: New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
"Al-CIA-Duh," right, NYT!One day after President Obama delivered a blistering indictment of “human and systemic failures’’ leading up to the foiled attack, the battle to assign blame escalated yesterday.
Some government officials blamed the National Counterterrorism Center, created in 2004 to foster intelligence sharing and to serve as a clearinghouse for terrorism threats, for failing to piece together information about an impending attack.
Others defended the center, saying that analysts there did not have enough information at their disposal to trigger a broad investigation into Abdulmutallab. They pointed the finger at the CIA, which in November compiled biographical data about Abdulmutallab - including his plans to study Islamic law in Yemen - but did not broadly share the information with other security agencies.
The environment in Washington was further charged by a barrage of partisan attacks revolving around whether Obama bears ultimate responsibility for the security lapse, including a statement by former Vice President Dick Cheney that Obama “pretends’’ that the United States is not at war against terrorists.
PFFFFT!
Yup, TIRED of the FART MIST, NYT!
A White House official fired back, blaming the Bush administration as having allowed Al Qaeda to thrive while it focused on the Iraq war. A White House review into the episode is finding that agencies were looking at information in silos without adequately checking other available databases - not because they were reluctant to share, as was the case before Sept. 11, but out of oversight or human error, said a senior administration official familiar with the review.
Yup, ALL THESE DATABASES NEEDED for EVERYTHING and THEY AIN'T LOOKING AT THEM for "terrorists!" So WHAT WAS WITH ALL the $$$ for the TYRANNY, America?
In interviews yesterday, government officials and others provided an account of how various agencies had gleaned bits and pieces of information about the young Nigerian but failed to pull them together to disrupt his plot. Most of the officials spoke only on the condition that they not be quoted by name.
Are they going to be fired?
The first sign of a threat came in August, when the National Security Agency, responsible for electronic eavesdropping around the world, intercepted the Al Qaeda conversations about the mysterious, unidentified Nigerian. That same month, Abdulmutallab arrived in Yemen and he soon began preparing for the Christmas attack. Three months later, in November, Abdulmutallab’s father, a former senior Nigerian government official and prominent banker, became panicked about his son’s turn to radicalism, according to an interview with a family cousin. The father beseeched Nigerian and US officials to intervene before his son did harm, said the cousin, who declined to be identified by name, citing the family’s desire for privacy....
Did you GET ALL THAT COVER STORY CRAP?
Mutallab consulted with the onetime national security adviser to Nigeria’s former president. He also approached Nigeria’s National Intelligence Agency. Then he went to the US embassy in Abuja, the cousin said. There, he said, US officials essentially ignored him.
Yeah, and NOW WE KNOW WHY!!!
This was all a SET UP!!
Watch: Christmas Undie Bomber: CIA Black Op?
The Northwest Flight 253 Intelligence Failure: Negligence Or Conspiracy?
In the five days since the abortive attempt by the 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device onboard Northwest Flight 253, information has surfaced that indicates an ostensible breakdown in US intelligence and security that is extraordinary in both its character and scale. Once again, as in the wake of September 11, 2001, the government and the media are peddling the explanation that all of these extraordinary lapses were the product of mere negligence or a “failure to connect the dots.”
Yeah, YOU SMELLING SOMETHING, readers?
American officials contend that they took the father’s account seriously, but that he never signaled that his son might carry out a terrorist attack. Still, on Nov. 20, based on the father’s meeting, which included the CIA and the State Department, embassy officials wrote a cable called a Visas Viper - government jargon for a warning about terrorism - and sent it to the counterterrorism center....
Yeah, he is REALLY STARTING TO STINK like CIA!
Related: The CIA's Jihad
That's how they get here, America.
Also see: First WTC attack
How about that, huh?
Some 1,700 visas have been revoked since the Sept. 11 attacks, but that step is almost always taken only after a review by counterterrorism officials in Washington.
And LOOK WHAT WAS CUT(?) from my PRINTED PAPER:
Based on the father's account, CIA officials in Nigeria also prepared a separate report compiling biographical information about Abdulmutallab, including his educational background and the fact that he was considering pursuing academic studies in Islamic law in Yemen.
That cable was sent to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., but not disseminated to other intelligence agencies, government officials said yesterday.
Because HE WAS ONE of THEIRS!!
Some officials criticized the CIA for withholding some of the information about Abdulmutallab, saying it might have prompted a broader investigation into him and possibly would have led to putting him on a watch list.
And what, blow the operation like what happened with Zazi?
--more--"
Also see:
- U.S. Complicit in Crotch Bomber Case
- Another Missed Opportunity For Terrorists
- The Politics of Terror
- Reminding Obama Again
- Reminding Obama
- From Yemen to Detroit: Delivering the Yoke of Tyranny
- From Detroit to Yemen: The Opening of a New War Front
- From Detroit to Yemen: Dick Smoke Suspect
- From Detroit to Yemen: Taking Stock of Northwest Airlines
- Direct Flight From Detroit to Yemen
- The Yemeni Yawn
- Bridging the Gulf of Aden
- The Pioneers of Aviation Security
- Yemen Policy Plays Out
- Detroit Bomber Gives Boston Gas Pains
This article CONFIRMED the CIA CONNECTION!
"Airliner terror suspect linked to cleric; US-born preacher believed still alive, Yemen official says" by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post | January 1, 2010
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
Yup, straight from the horse's mou..., well, try the other end.
SANA, Yemen - Yemeni investigators believe the Nigerian man who allegedly attempted to bomb a US airliner on Christmas Day might have met with suspected Al Qaeda operatives in a house used by a radical Yemeni American cleric, a senior Yemeni official said yesterday.
In an extensive interview, Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, Yemen’s deputy prime minister for defense and security affairs, also said the cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, is believed to be alive.
Oh, so the WE KILLED HIM in an AIR STRIKE was a LIE, huh?
But the MSM IS RIGHT about the OPERATIVE!
Related (color codes my emphasis):
"Airline Terror Mission Blessed by Radical Imam
The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.
"Actually, the US Government rescinded a warrant for this guy's arrest in 2002. He was imprisoned in Yemen but released 2 years ago. His fellow clerics openly accuse him of cooperating with the CIA." -- Wake the Flock Up"Khattab (aka Joseph Cohen) Removes All Traces of Link to Ft. Hood Killer Hasan
But whether or not this particular "Slave of Allah" is Nidal Hasan is not important. Certainly the Revolution Muslim user "ooklepookle" is Hasan's friend Duane Reasoner. What is important is that Khattab has been busy removing webpages from his site connecting him to "ooklepookle". When we originally reported the relationship we had to use a Google cache page. All webpages showing "ooklepookle" at Revolution Muslim had already been removed. Google's archive -- a snapshot of what the webpage looked like at a single moment in time -- remained.
Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with an individual associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
".... one of the "Al Qaeda" operatives Hasan may have been in contact with was Yousef al-Khattab, aka Joseph Cohen. The Imam mentioned in this article, Anwar al Awlaki, is thought by many of his fellow clerics to be working with the CIA. When he was living in the US in 2002, a warrant for his arrest was inexplicably rescinded by the US Attorney in Denver, an indication that a deal may have been made then. Anwar al Awlaki was also claimed to have been a point of contact for two of the 9-11 accused." -- Wake the Flock Up
Yup, he is Al-CIA-Duh, all right.
What do you mean there is no Al Qaeda?
You mean Al Qaeda doesn't even exist?
It was the first such statement from Yemen’s government on the fate of the US-born preacher, who has been linked to the gunman who allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5.
Related: MSM Covering Up Military Munity at Fort Hood
MSM Putting the Hood Over the American Public
Taking the Hood Off the AmeriKan MSM
Are the LIES and OMISSIONS beyond belief or what, America?
And YOU THINK you are getting FACTS when you open a "newspaper?"
Obama administration officials have said they believe Aulaqi was killed in a Dec. 24 air strike on a house in southeastern Yemen where he had met with the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Alimi said US authorities did not alert Yemen when CIA operatives learned in August that the militant group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was planning to set in motion “a Nigerian bomber.’’
CAN YOU SAY INSIDE JOB, America?
Yeah, I KNEW YOU COULD!!
Nor were the Yemenis informed that Abdulmutallab’s father had raised concerns in November about his son’s growing Islamic radicalism, Alimi said. Abdulmutallab was in Yemen from August until December.
Yeah, the CONCERNED DAD, right!
“If we had received the information at the appropriate time, our security apparatus could have taken obvious measures to stop him,’’ Alimi said.
But the CIA DID NOT WANT YOU to STOP HIM!
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported yesterday that the United States gave Nigeria four full-body scanners for its international airports in 2008 to detect explosives and drugs, but none were used on the man suspected of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight, Nigerian officials say.
Oh, FIRST in AMSTERDAM and NOW HERE!!
Abdulmutallab, tracked by cameras through the security check, only went through a metal detector and had his bag X-rayed when he arrived at Nigeria’s busiest airport to start his journey, the officials say. The Soter RS scanners deliver 3-D images that would have shown something hidden under clothing. But a spokesman for the anti-drug agency, which operates the Nigerian machines, told the Associated Press that the one at Lagos airport is used sporadically and only on potential narcotics smugglers.
Have you HAD IT with the WEAK, LAME-ASS, SHIT-ASS EXCUSES like ME!?
After clearing security at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Abdulmutallab flew to Amsterdam, boarded
Yup, NOTHING about NO PASPORT or claiming to be a Sudanese refugee, etc.
Newport couple witnesses to airliner attack
The Haskells were coming home from a safari vacation in Uganda and were on layover in Amsterdam on Christmas. While sitting on the floor waiting to board, Mr. Haskell said he noticed something unusual. An Indian man who "looked wealthy and was dressed in a nice suit" approached the ticket counter with a young man. "They looked like an odd couple because the Indian man was dressed so nice and the person, who I thought was a teen, was a scraggly dressed black guy," Mr. Haskell said. "... The Indian man said he needed to get (the Nigerian man) on the plane, but he had no passport."
"Notice that there is no mention at all of the sharply-dressed man at all on ABCNNBBCBS." -- Wake the Flock Up
Yeah, I did.
And an INDIAN MAN, hmmmmmm?
THE SUITED MAN: Unidentified man helped Mutallab board Amsterdam plane without passport
Passengers had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit the plane. Haskell said he and other passengers waited about six hours to be interviewed by the FBI. About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the only person taken into custody.
Second person was detained by U.S. Customs after alleged attack on Flight 253
Bill Carter, a spokesman with the FBI in Washington, D.C., said in an interview Tuesday that Abdulmutallab was the only person arrested or charged in relation to Friday's foiled attack.
The news about a person being taken into custody comes after two passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 said they saw a second man being taken away in handcuffs on Christmas Day while they and others were waiting to be interviewed by FBI agents at the airport. Smith was unable to say whether that man was the person detained by customs officials.
"Shades of ...
1. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress at the RFK assassination.
2. John Doe #2 at the OK City Bombing.
3. The extra shooters at Columbine.
4. etc. etc, etc." -- Wake the Flock Up
Officials Claim Second Man Unrelated To Christmas Attack
Having first denied the very existence of a possible accomplice in the Christmas Day bombing attempt, officials are now denying that a second man detained in the aftermath of the Flight 253 incident had anything to do with the attack, completely contradicting multiple eyewitness accounts. Authorities have attempted to downplay the significance of other men seen involved in the plot, including an Indian man that helped bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board the plane, another man witnessed filming the entire flight including the bombing attempt, as well as an Indian man handcuffed by the FBI after sniffer dogs detected something suspicious in his luggage.
I think I'M SMELLING SOMETHING, too!
Yeah, NOTHING ABOUT HIM, huh?
Forget about the lies for a minute, and ask yourself HOW MANY OTHER THINGS is the Boston Globe and AmeriKan MSM CONCEALING?
Even word of the scanners’ presence in Nigeria’s four main airports apparently hasn’t reached top officials, including one responsible for airline safety.
Well, you know how those blacks shuffle along, right?
Yup, HAD the THINGS for TWO YEARS (and been using them for drug guys) but NO ONE KNEW THEY WERE THERE!
Un-flippin-f***ing-real!
Harold Demuren, the head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters Wednesday that his government would buy 3-D full-body scanners for the airports, and insisted there were currently none there.
WTF, readers?
Yup, a HEAPING MOUND of MSM BULLSHIT everywhere you turn!
But yesterday, Ofoyeju Mitchell of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, told the AP that one of the machines sits in a room near the security checkpoint in Lagos’s often chaotic international airport....
Then TURN BACK ALL FLIGHTS from Nigeria, 'eh, America!!?
I mean, WE CAN'T TAKE the CHANCE on a CHAOTIC AIRPORT, can we?
Updates:
"Crotch Bombers, Jewish Media Groups and the USA's 'War of Terror'
Our old friend Ben Venzke at the Jewish Media Group, IntelCenter, is at it again. IntelCenter is famous for finding 'al Qaeda' videos and releasing them even before the dead Bin Laden is informed of his being on the recording. Now Ben finds an 'al Qaeda' web page that is not to be found in the real world and Americans get to find out which 'existential' enemy of Israel is next on the list to be bombed to hell and gone, Yemen.
Now I have seen it all.
Update: Obama cites apparent Al Qaeda link in bomb plot
I no longer hear him or them, and won't be covering that on the Globe's website tomorrow (tossed in on a Sunday in an Obomber reminder).
Too many lies and omissions and too little time.
See: Another Guantanamo Alumnus Creates Another “Al Qaida” Front–Coincidence or The Plan?
Same guy, isn't it?
