British intelligence played a central role in the undercover operation involving a supposed new underwear bomb threat from an al-Qaeda off-shoot in Yemen, Reuters reports.
The government this week announced it had foiled an attempt to blow up an airliner with an improved version of the underwear bomb used in the failed attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day 2009. Subsequently, media reports published official leaks revealing the would-be bomber was actually a CIA informant with ties to Saudi intelligence.
Now it is revealed that the undercover informant was a British citizen, possibly of Saudi origin, working in cooperation with Britain’s two top spy agencies, MI5 and MI6. British authorities put heavy pressure on the Obama administration not to disclose Britain’s role.
U.S. officials initially tried to take credit for foiling the so-called terrorist attack, only to be rather embarrassed once the CIA involvement was made public. But Washington is still trying to use the incident to raise the fears of Americans to support a more ubiquitous national security state.
Inside sources have told me that British MI5 and MI6 personnel had been selected and cross trained in underwear sniffing techniques developed by the American Intel community. These “sniffers”, as they are called in the community, are selected from the most promising personnel available in the community. These same sources told me that Homeland Security is now investing millions into this valuable training in order to keep Americans safe.
What a wonderful job creation exercise! Next time it will be the US foiling a UK sponsored 'plot'. Jobs for life!
The government has provided the MSM with a story from always reliable Saudi/CIA sources to promote the "war on terror".
The Saudis reportedly are actually using their expertise in double agents and airplane bomb plots to foil “terrorism”, not promote or cause it.
The Saudis are admittedly partnered with the CIA (and maybe even MI5 and the Mossad, though no one is saying).
Now, obviously, and with such partners, the Saudis are not only “reliable allies”, but must be considered “good guys“. So the “war on terror” can’t possibly be about supporting dictatorships and making police states. Everything is done to reduce “terror”, nothing else, and certainly more "terrorism" (aka resistance) is not generated, we are reliably told by reliable sources.
What further proof do our leaders need to order more drone attacks and military action in Yemen (and more sales of jet fighters and riot gear to the Saudis)?
Please remove your underwear for inspection.
I am dumbfounded.
I thought billionaire oil-rich sheikhs ruled Saudi Arabia.
I thought the Saudi leaders promoted religious extremism and backed world-wide terrorism as a means of holding onto power. 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 Saudi leaders were engaged in a campaign of persecution and violence against their opponents in Yemen and Bahrain.
I even had thought the Saudis could have been involved in 9/11.
If it's not the CIA, it's Mossad and if not, it's M16. So? What else is new? Somehow, they gotta justify the pissing off of billions of dollars of taxpayers money and the strangling of civil rights. What better way to do it than with a phony, been there done that, exploding underwear foiled bomb attempt?