U.S. and Yemeni officials have confirmed that the supposed would-be underwear bomber at the heart of an al-Qaeda airliner plot revealed this week was actually an informant working for the CIA and Saudi intelligence all along.
Members of the Obama administration spent virtually all of yesterday parading throughout major media outlets claiming their intrepid counterterrorism efforts successfully foiled a terrorist plot to blow up an American airliner. But now officials have anonymously confirmed that the plot, like so many other “successfully foiled” terror attacks, was hatched by the CIA from the start.
Instead of showing that the CIA and the counterterrorism policies of the U.S. are keeping Americans safe from harm, or that al-Qaeda is making “inroads,” as former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter said, all this lauded incident shows is that the CIA can get weapons from shadowy sources and blow up planes, if it wanted to.
Officials say the informant was working for the CIA and Saudi Arabian intelligence when he was given the bomb by alleged terrorists. He then turned the device over to authorities.
This explains what many people had wondered about in the day since this supposed terror plot was revealed. There was so much secrecy about the plot, and zero information about who it was that attempted to bomb an airliner. Officials simply repeated that Americans were in no danger and the would-be bomber was “in no position to harm the United States.”
Keep the plebs in a constant state of fear. We can expect a lot more of this in the run up to the US presidential elections I suspect.
I wonder if we'll discover some day that Padilla was just a fall guy to help implement the TSA agenda.
This agent was lucky that they didn't charge him as a terrorist. Maybe he is too valuable for CIA or Saudi Arabia.
We are living in Nazi Germany. The level of propaganda couldn't be higher and more constant. It should be clear to everyone remotely awake by now that 9/11 was a false flag attack. Hopefully it's just more of this small time B.S. and they don't feel the need to demolish any more major skyscrapers in broad daylight. You should read the comments on this story on a MSM article like the New York Post. Just idiotic hoorays of victory and calls for all Muslims to be outright KILLED. Scary times.
Yeah, Just like our Trojan Horse [or Whores ??] President…………. lurking FORWARD……. It's easy 2C !! they are DESPERATE for some ………………ANY!!!!!!! plot for them to bust…!!! I voted for this CLOWN…… And will most likely do it again……… just don't trust Romney…. and hiz Neocon troika………. Bonkers BoltOn, Robert Joseph…………the National Security Council official who inserted the infamous “sixteen words” in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union message claiming that Iraq had tried to buy enriched uranium from Niger; and Dan Senor, former spokesman for the hapless Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer in Iraq; and Eric Edelman…………….
Isn't democracy wonderful? Two parties, with nearly identical foreign policies, both controlled (owned) by a foreign government…!!! The same traitors also recently voted to give the executive limb all the power the king had prior to the "revolution" thus attempting to revoke our constitutional rights by executive fiat ………..
P.S. I voted for Ron Paul in the primary…………… If he IS on the ballot, he gets my vote………
I don't believe Mitt R. is a presidential material in the first place.Other fact is that what is OBOMBA is not doing to be re-elected anyway.He has so far shown an utmost support for carrying on what his predecesor was committing i.e Killing and more killing.
Therefore I agree RP is a guy to vote if he is there on the B.P.
I am sharpening up my pencil for a write-in vote: R-o-n P-a-u-l
I haven't seen a third-party candidate I am willing to vote for yet, and I will not vote for the 'lesser' of two evils ever again. At the same time, I refuse to sit home and not vote. So Ron gets my vote, whether he is on the ballot or not.
you guys could vote for Gary Johnson . maybe even better than doc Paul . He was on the first republican debate .
The state is so stupid.
He probably founded AQAP too. I wonder if he was in GITMO?
He was an informant who turned the bomb over to authorities. Sounds like a foiled attack to me. C'mon people, I'm a peace loving guy but if you don't think this counts as a thwarted terrorist attack you are delusional. They had a mole in a terrorist organization who risked his life to gain their trust, yet you give him no credit for his courage. I detest a lot of U.S. foreign policy, but I also realize that this country is a bulls eye target for terrorist around the world. At least Obama has targeted the people responsible, instead of starting wars with nations that had nothing to do with the problem in the first place. War is a horrible thing, but is sometimes absolutely pivotal for the good of mankind. The Civil War and WWII are great examples, Vietnam and Iraq not so much. We all want peace, but sometimes there is a price to pay.
Hi there Jack- do you ever read this site? Obama is responsible for starting a war in Libya (the long term results of which are yet to be seen, but they don't look good), getting involved in a Civil War in another country (Syria), along with drone attacks in many other countries, which should really be considered acts of war, along with sanctions on Iran, which are also an act of war.
The Civil War was pivotal for the good of mankind? 800,000 dead Americans to prevent some states from peacefully leaving the Union which they should have been allowed to do (ever read the Declaration of Independence)?
For another perspective on WWII being a great war, check out Ralph Raico's "Great Wars and Great Leaders"
Plus Pat Buchanan's book: "Churchill, Hitler and the Unecessary War."
Jack is either grossly ignorant or a partisan hack when it comes to Obama. Obama is a mass-murderer, just like the previous president.
wake up and smell the coffee jack! this is another false flag psy op. who do you think is running and funding these "muslim extremists"? the cia and pentagon. google anwar al awaki at the pentagon.
fact the first underwear bomber was helped on the plane with NO DOCUMENTS?! ever try to board a plane without documents? try it and get back to me. this is not a thwarted attack, this is just another case of basic entrapment. the clowns in question had no plot and no means until this patsy showed up and offered to carry it out. moreover chertoff, director of DHS also personally profited millions of dollars on rolling out bogus unsafe scanners. you need to wake up to reality jack. big time.
Surprise, surprise…
The US administration, like their counterpart in the UK, is clearly finding there are not enough "terrorist attacks" to keep the War on Terror in full throttle. We can expect more of these incidents, and , perhaps, much worse, another 9-11 and 7-7. It is so depressing that the media are so poor. Michael Chertoff was interviewed on BBC 4 radio this morning. He sounded completely deranged, and what he said was full of holes, but the BBC it seems is in the hands of the pro-Israel fifth column that infests both our countries.
One phoney terror attack after another. Maybe the military industrial complex needs the toxic atmosphere in order to milk the taxpayers for those fun wars and expensive silly weapons? Expect more movies with sinister Muslims and caped super heroes.
Wonder where this "super bomb" was assembled – probably at NSA or CIA labs. The things a guy has to do these days to keep a cushy Government job. "No threat – no gravy" is the way it goes.
to be fair they ought to be congratulated (one cheer) on getting an agent into….whatever and whereever it was they got the bomb from, although we can safely guess it was a saudi agent not an american one. Again the battlefield is not anywhere except in american's skulls.
Whew!
What a relief.
I thought billionaire oil-rich sheikhs headed Saudi Arabia.
I thought the Saudis were religious extremists. I thought they promoted Wahhabism and considered other religious sects as heretic infidels. I thought they felt especially economically threatened by the hated Shiites in Bahrain and Yemen. I thought the Saudis were engaged in a campaign of persecution and violence against them in Yemen and Bahrain.
I even had thought the Saudis could have been involved in 9/11.
But now the government has provided the MSM with an unverifiable instance to say different.
The Saudis are using their expertise in double agents and airplane bomb plots to fight “terrorism”.
The Saudis are the “good guys” because they are partnered with the CIA.
What further proof is needed to warrant more drone attacks and military action in Yemen?
As the discussion in "Welt Online" shows, nobody here in Germany
is believing such stories anymore.
I also have serious doubts, there is just too much lying going on.
(E.g. if that's true, he wouldn't be save in Saudi Arabia, and the CIA would offer him Asylum in the US.)
Is there any way to get the FBI and CIA out of the business of generating terror? What if one day they instigate and orchestrate a major plot and for one reason or another fail to foil it? After all they aren't all that competent. Wouldn't that make for an interesting movie plot? If only lalaland weren't a bunch chickenhawks.
It already happend in '93 with the Oklahoma city bombing (look up PATCON).
Sometimes, they'll just try to commit false flag acts of terror themselves, as seen in the early 60s CIA plan known as Operation Northwoods (Thankfully Kennedy stopped that one from happening).
Who needs foreign 'terrorists' when you've got the FBI and CIA?
Already happend. Look up operation PATCON and its relationship to the Oklahoma city bombing.
What a bunch of BS. The real fear for the American people are cretins like McCain, Graham, Lieberman who want constant war abroad, and war "against" the American public. The only real threat that Americans have is a US government that wants a corporate dictatorship that demolishes the constitution, bill of rights, and the ability for each American to make their OWN choices.
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(scratching my head) Does anybody remember a terror plot in which the U.S. government wasn't involved?
Yet another "false flag" operation. The so-called security industry, a growth-industry, is making a lot of folks very wealthy. In order to stimulate sales we need to scare the daylights out of the general public.
In order to keep America safe, I suggest we indict yet unindicted co-conspirators Hanes and Hilfiger for manufacturing terrorist undies.
It was a very sophisticated underwear bomb. The CIA ought to know. They made it.
Reconstructing this story, the spooks gave this "double agent" ,in fact single CIA agent, the bomb.
He got into AQAP, and was getting ready to get sent out and get "caught" with great fanfare,
just like the original underwear bomber, who in fact was a dupe, escorted by Indian intelligence. Then AQAP figures out who the CIA spook really is, and he has to hightail it out of there with the bomb – which the CIA gave him anyway.
From time to time these spooks get so wound up they shoot each other in the foot.
Who's to tell the difference between the CIA and AQAP? Could it be said that AQAP works for the
CIA? All in the name of defending our homeland, of course.
THe CIA has been committing terrorist crimes since the 1930's. they helped along with the Chicago school of economics to overthrow peaceful democratic leaders, make up all sorts of fake stories and installed dictators for the sake if "free markets" and speculation in at least 3 countries in south America, and other countries like in Asia.
This was all told about in the book "the Shock Doctrine" Which was a real bit of history like they don't tell it in schools or anywhere else. I recommend this book for anyone interested in history and/or the CIA.
Congratulations to the United States for foiling a plot hatched by… the United States.