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From there, obtaining records from the cell provider via the Patriot Act was cake, as the calls had to go through the network. People think prepaid is super anonymous, but it really isn't.
Leaving an engine running means to most anyone, i'll be right back
There are some simple presumptions that could be made. He bought the wrong kind of "fireworks" and thought M88's would act like M80's, and chain light from the fuse. They do not, they have to be lit individually.
He bought the wrong kind of fertilizer. Not a wild stretch there to someone from another country. Not a wild stretch his equivalent of Paki back yard trainging didn't give him necessary details, or perhaps he couldn't locate the kind he should have had and thought he could substitute.
Originally posted by spikey
reply to post by Libertygal
From there, obtaining records from the cell provider via the Patriot Act was cake, as the calls had to go through the network. People think prepaid is super anonymous, but it really isn't.
I beg to differ Libertygal.
A prepaid, throwaway phone is totally anonymous and cannot be traced back to anyone with an ounce of common sense.
If i were to commit a crime of such magnitude that if caught, i would at *best* be spending pretty much the whole of the rest of my life behind bars, and worse case probably be executed by the state...(he wasn't a suicide bomber)
I would ONLY use the prepaid for one transaction, then dump it..if i wanted to contact a PA fireworks company, i'd use *another* prepaid for that transaction, and if i wanted to call someone else connected with the plot, i'd use another still! ONE phone per transaction.
Completely untraceable and anonymous.
Sure, they'd have the number, and assuming you kept the phone (!) and didn't physically destroy each and every phone ASAP after completing EACH transaction, they could also track it, but..seriously..would you expect a man, an intelligent man at that, to use the same phone for all communications aspects of this crime? I certainly wouldn't, and i've had zero training and no Master degree.
What price is a handful of throw in the bin after one call phones, compared to getting caught and all that that entails?!
It doesn't add up.
As for the car..Leaving an empty car running, with it's hazard warning flashers on...doesn't say to anyone with an average IQ (no offense meant) that 'i've broken down'...the engine was running!
Leaving an engine running means to most anyone, i'll be right back
In NY? Are you serious?!
Leaving an empty car with it's engine running means come and steal me! Any copper worth his or her salt, would be immediately suspicious (correctly as it turned out, apparently)..because if it were innocent and genuine, it would be asking..no, screaming for the car to be stolen!
You might as well have a sign in the window, inviting the cops over.
Remember he would only need a short time to get out of the immediate area..hail a cab, jump on a train...have a ride waiting or any of the myriad options open.
Leaving his personal items in the car makes perfect sense to you does it? WHAT?!
As a diversionary tactic, maybe *fake* personal items placed around the cab yes, maybe even a child safety seat or two with some wipes and a kids toy or two on the dash and so on to make the car look like a regularly used family car, but really...your own..genuine..personal..items?! Not a chance Liberty, not a chance. This bloke was supposedly trained by 'professional terrorists'.
Simple presumptions? You are trying to hard, you really are.
He bought the wrong fireworks, he bought the wrong fertilizer, he used the phone too often and kept it, he used his own computer to email from..yet he couldn't do what any 12 year old could do, and look on the internet for the correct type of fireworks, the correct type of fertilizer, and the correct way to stay anonymous in his comms.
By all reckoning, *if* this was a genuine bombing attempt, the people of NY had nothing to worry about, this bloke was the most incompetent would-be terrorist on the face of this planet!
He did *everything* wrong Yet, we are told he was smart enough to obtain a University Masters degree..!
You're perfectly entitled to your own theories of course, but you're wrong in a lot of areas.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by AnAbsoluteCreation
The fishy part is the internal militias, that is where our concentration needs to be.. Those militias are a worry for the US government, but I suspect they don't want people to know that fact..
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
reply to post by Blaine91555
I am assuming that because that is who "they" said was the suspect. Furthermore, if they got footage of a guy by the truck, why can't they rewind the video and get the suspect getting out of truck to see if its the same man.
Not thin air.
AAC
The suspect conveniently left his house & old car keys "that were discovered" after entering the Pathfinder.. in the ignition?, trunk?, lying on the seat?.. discovered where? in the Pathfinder?
Agent (not going there) decided "..it appeared that the occupant of the Pathfinder had attempted to initiate an explosion.." without mention of witnesses or who the occupant was... they found out who purchased it, but not who occupied it..
Wording I've never seen before in a criminal filing (emphasis mine)"In addition, and among other things, this investigation has revealed SHAHZAD used a pre-paid cellular phone - which has not been used since April 28..".."In addition, and among other things"??.. wtf is that?.. lol, it's the non existent via censorship US Army spy plane part... intercepting a call from a cell phone not used since April 28th?..huh?
Censored article story & scrubbed quote:
seminal.firedoglake.com...
"In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did him in. Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F. Kennedy International Airport."
A US Special Operations Force source told me that the planes were likely RC-12s equipped with a Guardrail Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) system that, as the plane flies overland "sucks up" digital and electronic communications. "Think of them as manned drones. They're drones, but they have men sitting in them piloting them and they can be networked together," said the source. "You have many of them--four, five, six of them--and they all act as a node and they scrape up everything, anything that's electronic and feed it back." The source added: "It sucks up everything. We've got these things in Jalalabad [Afghanistan]. We routinely fly these things over Khandahar. When I say everything, I mean BlueTooth would be effected, even the wave length that PlayStation controllers are on. They suck up everything. That's the point."
Guardrail has been used for years by the US military. In recent years, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military has also used the "Constant Hawk" and "Highlighter" aerial sensor platforms. All of these programs have recently undergone a series of upgrades.
"After the arrest , SHAHZAD admitted that he had attempted to detonate a bomb in Times Square. He also admitted that he had recently received bomb-making training in Waziristan, Pakistan."
How convenient he just admitted it.. who cares if its outside the Miranda rights of every US citizen or a CIA tractor battery was affixed to his testicles.. see?.. he's an admitted terrorist now, deny this US citizen the freedom he hates.. or else 300+ million Americans will be in imminent danger!!.. trust US, we're the US government!
Agents raiding his Bridgeport home found components for the bomb device, including firecrackers and the boxes for the alarm clocks. They also reportedly found a hand-drawn map of potential targets, including the 4, 5, and 6 trains and the Staten Island ferry. There was also evidence of his ties to Pakistan, including a Karachi ID and residency papers.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction and the Govt is accurate, but statistically, historically.. the Govt is a giant lying sack of festering crap regarding the "war on terror", so called..
Meh, as usual a clearer view of the big picture will filter down to us plebes in a few years.. looks like doody-caca at this juncture.