On the 17th February the Daily Mail carried an Associated Press report on the jailing for life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Underwear Bomber, “who tried to blow up an international flight on Christmas Day 2009”.
Despite devastating witness testimony (that I am about to get into) that counters the official narrative, and the fact that Anwar al-Awlaki can be shown to have had contacts with intelligence personnel at the Pentagon, the Associated Press reportage, in the style of all paid-off corporate-media, determinedly parrots the story that led to body scanner machines and invasive pat downs at airports:
[Abdulmutallab] was on a suicide mission for al Qaeda when he attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants as the plane, en route from Amsterdam, approached Detroit…
In 2009, months before the attack, he travelled to Yemen to see Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric and one of the best-known al Qaeda figures, according to the government.
He told investigators that his mission was approved after a three-day visit with his mentor.
Yet, there is not a more cynical line in the piece than this one:
The mandatory punishment had never been in doubt after he surprised the courtroom and pleaded guilty to all charges on the second day of his trial in October.
That Abdulmutallab changed his plea was not a surprise to anyone. He had previously pleaded innocent, and declared that he wanted Kurt Haskell to be his sole witness.† This, so wily observers thought, would not be tolerated as it would present too much of a risk of exposure for certain people in American intelligence. The significance of Abdulmutallab’s plea change should become clear as you read on.
Below is an extract from Kurt Haskell’s victim impact statement given at Abdulmutallab’s sentencing hearing. This is followed by an extract from the ABC article, published 22nd January 2010, mentioned by Kurt Haskell. This is followed by a 10 minute film which shows the testimony of the Undersecretary of State for Management, Patrick F. Kennedy. Kennedy told a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee that Abdulmutallab, who was listed on the TIDE database, essentially did not have his US entry visa revoked because of a national security override issued by an as yet unknown US intelligence or law-enforcement agency.
Kurt Haskell
On Christmas Day 2009, my wife and I were returning from an African safari and had a connecting flight through Amsterdam. As we waited for our flight, we sat on the floor next to the boarding gate. What I witnessed while sitting there and subsequent events have changed my life forever. While I sat there, I witnessed Umar dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, being escorted around security by a man in a tan suit who spoke perfect American English and who aided Umar in boarding without a passport. The airline gate worker initially refused Umar boarding until the man in the tan suit intervened. The event meant nothing to me at the time. Little did I know that Umar would try to kill me a few hours later as our flight approached Detroit…
When we landed, I was shocked that our plane taxied up to the gate. I was further shocked that we were forced to sit on the plane for 20 minutes with powder from the so called bomb all over the cabin. The officers that boarded the plane did nothing to ensure our safety and did not check for accomplices or other explosive devices. Several passengers trampled through parts of the bomb as they exited the plane. We were then taken into the terminal with our unchecked carry on bags. Again, there was no concern for our safety even though Umar told the officers that there was another bomb on board as he exited the plane. I wondered why nobody was concerned about our safety, accomplices or other bombs and the lack of concern worried me greatly. I immediately told the FBI my story in order to help catch the accomplice I had seen in Amsterdam. It soon became obvious that the FBI wasn’t interested in what I had to say, which upset me further. For one month the government refused to admit the existence of the man in the tan suit before changing course and admitting his existence in an ABC News article on January 22, 2010. That was the last time the government talked about this man. The video that would prove the truth of my account has never been released. I continue to be emotional upset that the video has not been released. The Dutch police, meanwhile, in this article (show article), also confirmed that Umar did not show his passport in Amsterdam which also meant that he didn’t go through security as both are in the same line in Amsterdam.
Full version here.
Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria.
Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab “did not get cold feet.”
Full article here.
I think that there could not be any more incriminating evidence for a case of false-flag, US intelligence agency-handled terrorism. Haskell and his wife are irreproachable as impartial witnesses, and they were, at least until someone finally received the memo (or death threat), validated by the “Federal” people who had been in contact with ABC. The statement by Kennedy confirmed that Abdulmutallab’s unmolested progress to the US was of utmost importance to a dark silent hand, the identity of which he was not prepared to publically reveal.
As I mentioned above, despite the devastating evidence, the paid-off corporate media fails to do the job that we all supposed it was there to do, and daily looks increasingly like the terrible government mouthpiece in an Orwellian dystopia. It keeps spinning the official narrative that perpetually gifts the Establishment the potential to turn with vehemence on whoever it wants to label a terrorist.
Even so, perhaps the biggest crime of the corporate-media is the crippling and corrupting effect that it has on the people who consume its propaganda. These people are having their lives contaminated, and are becoming degraded by it. The following statements are reactions to the Abdulmutallab sentencing, and are from the first page of comments underneath the MailOnline story; assuming that they are not placed by operatives to lead opinion, the ignorance and mean spiritedness on display is pitiful. Spiritual and intellectual knarledness, petty-mindedness and decaying gutter-inhabitance is what a power-lustful, unabashedly criminal elite means for so many people.
should have been given the rope and a long drop.
- ironhorse, taunton, somerset, 17/2/2012 12:05
Good to see the Americans taking Capt. Underpants down for the count. He does not deserve to see another day of freedom in his lowlife. Here in Canada the poor baby would just get a smack on the wrist and a few years if that behind bars. Too bad they don’t have “hard labour” as part of the prison experience anymore. He could do something useful like breaking rocks down to gravel.
- Ted, Canada, 17/2/2012 11:59
Thank God for the American Justice System! At least they punish cretins like this, unlike this country, who are intent on rewarding anyone who breaks the law and to Hell with protecting it’s own people.
- Alan, of Chigwell, 17/2/2012 11:48
Excellent and if all countries in the world did the same to captured terrorists I would agree Much better than the death penalty to be incarcerated not having any say in your life what you eat etc Knowing everyday will be the same. Day after day I hope he lives to be 100 As to the comments by Fairness UK words fail me He deserves all he got and if this country follows suit the quicker the better
- Mike , Chester, formerly Great Britain , 17/2/2012 11:39
If God is so great, what does he need a piece of crap like this guy for? Surely he could just ker-pow the plane himself?
- Crazy Hippie, 10 Drowning Street. SW1 1AA, 17/2/2012 11:11
Now thats a sentence, if he had been tried in the UK courts he could have got 150 hours community service and possibly a curfew.
- patsy, manc, 17/2/2012 11:09
† 19/02/2012 correction: Previously, I mistakenly wrote that Abdulmutallab asked Haskell to be his defence attorney
