Policy-makers the world over are eagerly drawing conclusions about what happened last week in Paris, when a pair of gunmen attacks satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and another attacked a kosher grocery store. Everyone seems confident that whoever the most convenient attacker was did it.
Intelligence agencies, however, are scrambling to find actual evidence, since there is a remarkable lack of actual intelligence on who coordinated the attacks, and why.
The al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) connection is highly speculative, and primarily based on AQAP claiming credit. The Anwar Awlaki link is even more dubious, centered on US claims of the long-dead cleric being affiliated with AQAP.
The French investigation, for now, is centering on 49-year-old Algerian “sorcerer” Djamel Beghal, who French officials believe brought the gunmen together in the first place, while in jail, though Beghal has denied any involvement in the attacks.
Such a major attack lends itself to speculation about how it might have been averted, with an eye on existing policy agendas of various officials. Until they’ve actually figured out what happened, however, there’s little chance these conclusions will be anything but self-serving.
Obviously convenient for the scramble to blame-on-who-you-like that they were killed rather than captured.
Now there were witnesses to the shepherding of Abdulmatullab onto flight 253. And "On December 28, 2009, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing." "claimed to have organised the attack with Abdulmutallab; they said they supplied him with the bomb and trained him." So I'd say a claim-of-responsibility from them indicates a similar situation…guidance and aid from some gov't/security/influential entity. "We do this all the time," said the wealthy/Indian/Pakistani looking man with an American accent.
They may want to look into FBI agents at the US embassy and/or the French equivalent of the FBI.
Now comes the part where they really hype up the bullsh!t.
I think the two men who posed for the cameras got away and French intelligence inserted those two morons they already had a file on, to take the blame. Of course we can't ask them, since they were shot dead, so all we have to go on is the "official narrative." Convenient for all the usual parties to exploit without any surprises coming up as they milk this for all it's worth.
You always get a lot of "wish we had" claimants in a situation like this. It has even been claimed on another website that it might well be a false flag attack on the part of the Israelis, which is at least as plausible as any other theory. Given the US neocons unfailing talent for shooting themselves in the foot, it could even be them!
Ron Paul asks the question, “How could two stumble-bum clowns have carried out such a professional and well executed attack?”