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Originally posted by Night Watchman
I have one question about the alleged camera man. If he knew the attack was going to take place, why would he record it since if it was successful the evidence would have been destroyed in the explosion?
www.huffingtonpost.com...
We stayed in the baggage claim area for 3 hours without any word of what happened next. We were only allowed into the bathroom one person at a time by an officer who guarded the door. Behind the line of our immediate security detail there were hundreds of other police officers moving around back and forth, as if they were on they were on the night watch guarding a military base from a potential threat. What they were doing was unclear.
The only thing that I recall happening is seeing an Indian guy off to the side, an older gentleman wearing a gray suit leaning against the wall. Suddenly there was a police officer next to him pulling his arms back and pulling handcuffs on him. The man didn't struggle, the bags which seemed to be his were left there, and he and the police officer disappeared around the corner.
Originally posted by Flakey
reply to post by mmiichael
Well If you can't answer my annoying questions I glad you can at least read the links I provide.
Still.
I wouldn't mind if you could answer a few of those pesky question.
Originally posted by Granite
When the eyewitness said well-dressed Indian man, I bet he actually is Pakistani.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by GovtFlu
This guy relates that looking into the suspects eyes and observing no emotion, no discernible expressions.
Sounds like the CIAs drug of choice: Burundanga (scopolamine) which places people in a "trance like state" where they are open to suggestion and don't remember a damn thing about what happened... similar to a date rape drug.
Of course this guy looking into the suspects eyes is a better source than the father, friends, teachers, Al Qaida handlers who dealt with him on a day to day basis for years.
Conspiracists love fantasy - hate hard facts.
Originally posted by mmiichael
I sometimes glance at a few hundred messages in a day, and respond to ones that seem either informed, or so outrageous they need addressing.
The prospect of the Christmas Day bomber being the second in a wave of attacks was raised today when it emerged that last month a Somali tried to board a commercial flight armed with explosive materials
In a chilling similarity with the attempt by Nigerian-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to down a flight heading for Detroit in the U.S., the Somali was arrested carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion.
Originally posted by bigyin
Originally posted by mmiichael
I sometimes glance at a few hundred messages in a day, and respond to ones that seem either informed, or so outrageous they need addressing.
It's how I imagine a day in the life of a paid blogger would sound like
[edit on 30-12-2009 by bigyin]
Originally posted by GovtFlu
I don't know if this was a CIA op, but since the so called war on terror is just a bogus tool of control used by a govt with a proven track record of lying.. it would not surprise me if it was, used to justify more govt violence & control.
A spaced out suspect ready to ignite his own junk escorted by a handler.. with the US establishment responding with scripted nonsense about tighter security & more violence against yemen.. cui bono?
Originally posted by JJay55
Pistachios, it's about pistachios.
This 253 story is being squashed really quickly which tells me alot.
Sources tell CBS News that it appears the CIA information on "the Nigerian" was limited including his actual identity because it was coming from sub-sourcing. That means the information was one or two steps removed from the origin source who had contact with Abdulmutallab or who eyeballed him associating with individuals with suspected or known links to al Qaeda.
The sub-source apparently told the CIA that the person of interest dubbed "the Nigerian" held extremist views, had the ability to travel outside the region, and was being embraced and groomed by those who ascribe to al Qaeda.
Information provided by sub-sources often present challenges to the intelligence community because of their vagueness and the lack of ability to follow up on the information.
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by mmiichael
Middle of the road thinkers are not very welcome here. One must be on the extremes to be liked here. I find this completely hilarious considering most people will spout out something along the lines of "that kind of black and white thinking....", when invariably they have presented the same black and white thinking only applied to their views, so thus it is correct and right!