Politicians and pundits continue to discuss alleged terror suspect Faisal Shahzad’s attempt to detonate an explosive device in New York City’s Time Square, but few are asking the obvious—how could our wars on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere have prevented an individual like Shahzad from trying to carry out a terrorist attack on […]
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US intelligence agencies deliberately allowed Christmas underwear bomber to board flight to the States
February 5, 2010In his prepared statement to the House Committee on Homeland Security on January 27, State Department Under-Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy [testified] … that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight [Flight 253] without any special airport screening. [Furthermore, this revelation] has been buried in […]
Overlooked questions about Umar Farouk Mutallab, the Christmas Underwear Bomber
January 12, 2010Paul Craig Roberts questions: How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of heightened security choose for an attack on an airliner a person who is the most conspicuous of all? Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab had a one-way ticket, […]
