Monday, December 28, 2009
Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect onto plane without passport
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”
So Wait. A sharp dressed man escorted Mutallab pass TSA security without a passport. And then he was video taped the whole time on the plane. What's going on here?
Christmas underwear bomber eye witness: Man videotaped the entire flight
An eye witness told the news talk radio station 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee that a man had videotaped the entire flight.
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."
Wait... What?
U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (IPS) - U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
Gibbs: Don’t Disagree With Obama On Response to Underwear Bomber
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) – The White House warned political foes Sunday not to provoke a partisan tug of war over terrorism, with President Barack Obama yet to publicly address the thwarted attack on a US airliner.
U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, al Qaeda Bastion
WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
And what about ol' Pakistan?
Giant statue of Lenin and Mao the talk of Richmond, Canada
VANCOUVER - A public art installation depicting Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and a feminized Chairman Mao Zedong in the heart of Richmond's business district has the whole town talking.
U.S. Stocks Decline as Al-Qaeda Claims Role in Bombing Attempt
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Most U.S. stocks declined, ending a five-day winning streak for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, after al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of an airplane on Dec. 25 and the Federal Reserve announced a program for removing liquidity from the banking system.
Al-Qaeda claims failed attack on US-bound plane: US monitor
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Monday, US monitoring organisation SITE Intelligence said.
Al-Qaeda, one size fits all.
Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds?
UN to produce bullion coins as world currency
The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be the button that launches metal prices into orbit.
Free H1N1 Flu Shots At Tulsa International Airport Today
TULSA, OK -- Holiday travelers passing through Tulsa International Airport are getting the chance to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus.
The Tulsa Health Department is offering free H1N1 vaccinations at the airport until 11:30 a.m. today.
Convenient.
Top Scientists Predict Widespread Sterilization
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6968250.eceFrom virtual brains and Matrix-like thought connections to disease-making bacteria, what the next decade could bring.
Nothing much is going to happen in the next 10 years. Of course, that’s not counting the diesel-excreting bacteria, the sequencing of your entire genome for $1,000, massive banks of frozen human eggs, space tourism, the identification of dark matter, widespread sterilisation of young adults, telepathy, supercomputer models of our brains, the discovery of life’s origins, maybe the disappearance of Bangladesh and certainly the loss of 247m acres of tropical forest.
Just another decade really. Wait dude...
Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?
http://www.alternet.org/politics/144809Did America slip into a semiliterate, polarized, pre-fascist state over the past decade or so, allowing greedy oligarchs and corporate elites to run the government?
Now, Michelle Obama too is sliding in the polls
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/michelle-obama-poll-barack-obama.htmlShe's on vacation now in Hawaii, so what does she care?
But as the first calendar year of the new White House regime draws to a close, First Lady Michelle Obama is experiencing the same drop in poll numbers as her husband. She's not elected, of course, and not charged at least officially with making the tough executive decisions that come out of the Oval Office.
Obama urges review of terror watch-list
http://www.ft.com/cms/President Barack Obama on Sunday ordered an urgent review of how US authorities use terrorist watch-lists to foil attacks on US targets after a Nigerian tried to destroy a transatlantic passenger aircraft with an explosive device he smuggled on board.
Senator Lieberman calls for ‘preemptive’ attack on Yemen
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/senator-lieberman-calls-attack-yemen/Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Senator Joeseph Lieberman (I-CT), who leads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has a vision of "tomorrow's war."
"Somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday’s war," Lieberman explained. "Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war. That’s the danger we face."
International Flights: In Essence, Flying Jails
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8431613.stmPassengers on US-bound flights from Britain are facing delays and extra security measures after a man was charged with trying to blow up a plane.
Travellers are undergoing "pat-down" searches before boarding and being restricted to one item of hand luggage.
Simon Calder, The Independent’s travel editor, says further restrictions are also in place.
Guilty until proven innocent?
US orders body searches after botched airline attack
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/us-orders-body-searches-after-botched-airline-attack-20091228-lgxg.htmlNew security measures introduced by the US Transport Security Administration for all flights into the US include pat-down searches at the airport gate, physical inspection of all bags and requiring passengers to stay in their seats without access to any personal items or overhead lockers for the final hour before landing.
Gotta love that ol' Problem, Reaction, Solution.
Bathroom Visits Now Considered Potential Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/politics/w28talk.html Homeland Security press secretary, Sara Kuban, released a statement, sorting out what had happened on the flight.
“A passenger on today’s Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit spent an unusually long time in the aircraft lavatory,” she said in the statement. “Due to this unusual behavior, the airline notified T.S.A. and the agency directed the flight to taxi to a remote area upon landing to be met by law enforcement and D.H.S.
“The passenger in question, a Nigerian national, was removed from the flight and interviewed by the F.B.I.; indications at this time are that the individual’s behavior is due to legitimate illness, and no other suspicious behavior or materials have been found. Though this does not appear at this time to be a security incident, in an abundance of caution, the aircraft was fully screened, with negative results, and all baggage is being rescreened before the aircraft taxis to the gate.”
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