CIA, MOSSAD, RAW Staged Christmas Bomb Conspiracy
by WAYNE MADSEN
(Jan 2, 2010) The Christmas Day attempt by the Nigerian son of a prominent
Nigerian banker and business tycoon connected closely to top Nigerian leaders to
detonate a chemical improvised explosive device aboard Delta Airlines flight 253
from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was a false flag operation carried out by the
intelligence tripartite grouping of the CIA, Mossad, and India's Research and
Analysis Wing (RAW), according to WMR's Asian intelligence sources who closely
monitor the activities of the three agencies in India and Southeast Asia.
The tripartite alliance of the CIA, Mossad, and RAW were behind the terrorist
attacks on Mumbai earlier this year and on December 28, Rupee News reported the
three agencies worked together, along with former Afghan KHAD intelligence
agents, to assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto: "The
Benazir assassination was pre-planned and executed via triangulation by Khad,
RAW, CIA and Mossad using the most modern radio active weapons available in the
market.
The Israeli PM publicly admitted helping India in Kargil recently. The
purpose of the covert Khad, RAW, CIA, Mossad operations is to destabilize
Pakistan. The IMF plan to de-fang Pakistan in 2000 did not work, but provincial
autonomy will make the center bankrupt triggering an implosion."
The outcome of the failed terrorist attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the
Detroit-bound plane has resulted in major Christmas gifts for the neocons and
militarists who still call the shots on U.S. policy: the deployment of
privacy-invasive millimeter wave (MMW) full body scanning equipment at airports
in North America and Europe [ranking member of the House Homeland Security
Committee, Representative Peter King (R-NY), who is an ardent defender of the
Catholic Church and its prelates in Ireland, has defended the scanning system
which can image the naked bodies of passengers, including children and babies],
an increase in the U.S. military and intelligence presence in Yemen, retention
of US PATRIOT Act surveillance provisions, an increase in racial profiling of
Arabs and Muslims -- and because Mutallab is African -- blacks in the United
States, and more cumbersome travel restrictions for airline passengers.
The neocon propagandists are already spinning counter-claims to reports that
indicate that Mutallab was a witting accomplice of a larger plot cooked up by
American, Israeli, ajd Indian intelligence agents to carry out yet another false
flag terror operation on American soil.
The eyewitness testimonies of Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell and his attorney
wife Lori Haskell are being pilloried by the corporate media after the two were
featured on major U.S. television networks. Haskell and his wife witnessed a
"well-dressed Indian man" arrange for Mutallab to board Delta 253 without a
passport at the check-in desk at Schiphol.
Haskell told CBS News: "Only the Indian man spoke, and what he said was, this
man needs to board the plane, and he doesn't have a passport. And the ticket
agent then responded saying you need a passport to board the plane, and the
Indian man then said he's from Sudan. We do this all the time."
WMR has learned that the Indian man is suspected by Asian intelligence services
of being an RAW agent who used his influence to convince airline and airport
security personnel that Mutallab was a bona fide Sudanese refugee.
Mutallab reportedly spent several hours in a Schiphol airport lounge before
boarding the Delta flight. Dutch agents are reportedly scanning Schiphol CCTV
footage and have reason to believe that Mutallab had accomplices at the airport,
which bolsters the witness accounts of the Haskells.
The FBI has interviewed the Haskells and the bureau, as is its modus operandi,
appears to be intimidating witnesses and pressuring them to support the
government's party line.
The neocon spin machine is also refuting reports that Mutallab traveled to the
United States without a passport and that his ticket was only one-way.
The facts emerging are that Mutallab was not traveling on a Nigerian passport
but on an Italian passport. Mutallab's father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, happens to
hold the Italian Order of Merit. In addition, Mutallab's ticket was purchased in
Accra, Ghana with $2,831 in cash and was later re-issued, on December 16, with a
different itinerary at the KLM office in Lagos. The original itinerary was
Lagos-Amsterdam-Detroit-Amsterdam-Accra but the return leg on January 8, 2010,
was changed from Amsterdam to Lagos instead of Accra.
Previously, WMR reported that the security company that cleared Mutallab in
Schiphol is ICTS, a firm that is headquartered in Israel and Amstelveen,
Netherlands. The firm also cleared attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid for a
Miami-bound American Airlines flight from Paris in December 2001.
Reid, who was bound for Antigua, was profiled after he purchased his ticket at a
travel agency in the 18th arrondisement in Paris. Reid had previously traveled
to Turkey, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, the Netherlands, Belgium and France and he
obtained pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a component of the explosive
Semtex, and his specially-designed shoes in Amsterdam.
Reid was linked by French authorities to French convert to Islam Jerome
Courtailler, who, in 2004, was sentenced in absentia by a Dutch court to six
years for plotting to attack U.S. targets in Belgium and France. Mutallab's
undershorts also contained PETN.
There is a possibility that Mutallab was recruited to carry out a false flag
attack after another one failed on November 13. A Somali man was arrested at
Mogadishu airport with the same chemicals, powder, and syringe combination that
Mutallab used to ignite his clothing.
The Somali man was attempting to board a Daallo Airlines flight from Mogadishu
to Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, Djibouti, and Dubai.
Daallo is the national flag carrier of Djibouti and is owned by Dubai World's
Istithmar World Aviation (IWA) Holdings. Dubai World's recent financial woes
sent shock waves through the global financial community.
It is also noteworthy that Delta 253 passenger Jasper Schuringa, the young man
who wrestled Mutallab to the ground and prevented him from carrying out his
terrorist mission, was driven to Schiphol on Christmas morning by his friend
Chris Van Amersfoort.
Van Amersfoort's Facebook page lists himself as a "fan of" Dubai World's owner
"His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum," the Emir of Dubai.
Daallo Airlines has an interline agreement with a single U.S. airline, which
happens to be Delta Airlines, the same airline that saw Mutallab successfully
board its flight 253 in Schiphol. The ahas similar agreements with other
airlines that fly to the United States, including Qatar Airways, Saudia,
Ethiopian Airlines, and Alitalia.
Schuringa's father works for Shell and in 1993 they were evacuated by the French
foreign Legion from Gabon during riots by demonstrators opposed to the tainted
re-election of Gabon's presidential dictator Omar Bongo.
The Curacao-born Jasper Schuringa attended film school in Miami and he also
lived in Oman. After accusations in the media that he was publicizing himself
over the Muttalab incident, Schuringa largely receded from public view.
Schuringa was en route to Costa Rica via Detroit to visit his sister. The
National Counter-terrorism office in The Hague is being mum about any
connections it had with Schuringa, according to the Dutch paper Parool.
On October 18, a little less than a month prior to the attempt by the syringe-
and chemical-armed Somali to board the Daallo Airlines flight from Mogadishu,
Shaykh Muqtaar Abu Zubeyr, the leader of Somalia's radical Al Shahab Islamic
Movement, warned Somalis in leaflets distributed in Mogadoshu's Bakaraha market
and other points in the city not to fly on Daallo Airlines, Somalia's largest
carrier, because he said the airline had "close ties" with the Transitional
Federal Government of Somalia, the United States and the "Jewish government" of
Israel.
Before moving from Egypt, Mutallab was in an MBA course in Dubai at the time of
the Daallo warning. Mutallab later dropped out of school in Dubai.
Mutallab's father Umaru, the retired Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria (FBN), is
among the top elite of Nigeria, counting among his friends the top royalty of
northern Nigeria, including the Emir of Gombe, the Emir of Zazzau, and the
Sultan of Sokoto, as well as Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua, who has
been recovering from a mysterious illness in Saudi Arabia.
Mutallab's empire included FBN (UK), which its president described as "the very
first UK bank owned by a Nigerian bank and could be counted as an equal to other
UK banks." Mutalan was also a contender to be President of the National Council
of the Nigeria Stock Exchange. In 2003, Mutallab formed Nigeria's first Islamic
bank, Jaiz International Bank.
The same bureaucratic stove-piping issues used by the U.S. intelligence and law
enforcement communities to explain away the lack of intelligence on the 9/11
attacks are at play with the Delta 253 incident.
Of course, all these problems were to have been solved by the creation of the
Department of Homeland Security and the Directorate of National Intelligence.
Mutallab was entered as a terrorist suspect in the Terrorist Identities Datamart
Environment (TIDE) database of 500,000 names maintained by the Director of
National Intelligence's National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC) but not on the
"no fly" list maintained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
On November 19, just six days after the Somali attempted to board the plane in
Mogadishu with a syringe and chemicals, the elder Mutallab met with the CIA
Station Chief at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
Mutallab told the CIA official that he was concerned about the radicalization of
his son, who was called "Alfa" -- a term for Islamic scholar -- while attending
the British International School in Lome, Togo. The elder Mutallab was quite
emphatic that his son posed a significant security risk.
After dropping out of the MBA program in Dubai, the younger Mutallab turned off
his cell phone and destroyed the phone's SIM card before leaving Dubai for Yemen
where it is said he wished to imrove his Arabic.
It is not known who bought Mutallab's ticket to Detroit in Accra and why the
return destination was changed from Accra to Lagos. Mutallab's multiple entry
visa for the United States was issued on June 16, 2008 with an expiration date
of June 16, 2010.
In response to the elder Mutallab's warning, the U.S. embassy in Abuja, the
embassy sent a Visa Viper cable to the State Department and NCTC on November 20.
However, Mutallab's name was not added to the no-fly list. The State Department
is refusing to disclose the classification of Mutallab's visa and State
Department spokesman Ian Kelly is refusing to reveal information on Mutallab's
visa application.
The Daily Trust of Abuja penned the following editorial in the aftermath of the
flight 253 incident: "The story caused anxiety among regular air travellers, not
only for the safety of planes, but also for the kind of reception that Nigerian
travellers to Europe and the US, especially Muslim ones, are likely to get in
the next months and years.
The story also excited Northern Nigeria's many conspiracy theorists, who think
another grand Western plot is in the offing to tarnish the image of Muslims,
possibly as a prelude to another invasion."
The editorial added, "Among officials of Nigeria's embattled Federal Government,
though, the story caused a mix of anxiety and relief. Anxiety, because it
threatens to throw this country's fitful Rebranding Campaign into further chaos.
But it provided welcome relief from endless newspaper commentaries on President
Yar'adua's health."
The Nigerians are obviously suspicious also about those behind the attempt on
the aircraft. The Abuja editorial continues: "Bringing down a plane is not a
thought that comes easily to people in Northern Nigeria. Most people here, with
me as a typical example, cannot breathe easily in a plane until it hits the
tarmac. A man who holds fast to a plane's aluminium frame for support during a
turbulent take-off hardly can think of bombing it.
This explosive substance that Faruk allegedly used in the Delta Airlines plane,
pentaerythritol or PETN, may be known to British school kids, but I have never
heard of it. To think that I once taught in a university's Faculty of Science.
If indeed Faruk told the Americans that he was an Al-Qaeda operative, then he
was a very poor one, to be frank. His bomb, which he said he got in Yemen, was
weak [exploding like a fire cracker] and technically deficient [failed to go off
properly].
He was easily subdued by a film producer, did not struggle when he was grabbed,
did not say anything when they held him, and almost as soon as he reached the
FBI station, he began to sing like a canary. Sounds very much like the gentle
British lad that he is."