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		<title>By: Rehmat</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/the-strange-case-of-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab/#comment-63372</link>
		<dc:creator>Rehmat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“The truth is there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US….” Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.

Whose Al-Qaeda?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“The truth is there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US….” Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.</p>
<p>Whose Al-Qaeda?<br />
<a href="http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/whose-al-qaeda/" rel="nofollow">http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/whose-al-qaeda/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Maryb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree that there is a lot more to come out as the stink of rotten fish intensifies. I think they have messed up big time on this one and the cat will not stay in the bag to use another metaphor! 

 Some  more on a Mossad connection here written by an ex Marine who I assume is a reliable source.

Subject: They So Desperately Want That Naval Base in Yemen.
Date: Tuesday, 5 January, 2010, 5:21

More &quot;Coincidences&quot; regard the Detroit Bomber 

Mutallab&#039;s father is no ordinary &#039;banker&#039; he  ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. 

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200114-Evidence-Mounts-for-US-Complicity-in-Terrorism-Mutallab-s-father-is-no-ordinary-banker-

The second comment on the article is aposite.
 
There are also these important eye-witness statements on a CNN video.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtK7FFDukQ&amp;feature=player_embedded)
 




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that there is a lot more to come out as the stink of rotten fish intensifies. I think they have messed up big time on this one and the cat will not stay in the bag to use another metaphor! </p>
<p> Some  more on a Mossad connection here written by an ex Marine who I assume is a reliable source.</p>
<p>Subject: They So Desperately Want That Naval Base in Yemen.<br />
Date: Tuesday, 5 January, 2010, 5:21</p>
<p>More &#8220;Coincidences&#8221; regard the Detroit Bomber </p>
<p>Mutallab&#8217;s father is no ordinary &#8216;banker&#8217; he  ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200114-Evidence-Mounts-for-US-Complicity-in-Terrorism-Mutallab-s-father-is-no-ordinary-banker-" rel="nofollow">http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200114-Evidence-Mounts-for-US-Complicity-in-Terrorism-Mutallab-s-father-is-no-ordinary-banker-</a></p>
<p>The second comment on the article is aposite.</p>
<p>There are also these important eye-witness statements on a CNN video.<br />
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtK7FFDukQ&amp;feature=player_embedded)</p>
<p>The case is</p>
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		<title>By: Mulga Mumblebrain</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/the-strange-case-of-umar-farouk-abdulmutallab/#comment-63353</link>
		<dc:creator>Mulga Mumblebrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done, MaryB. Well researched.  Abdulmuttalab sounds to me to have been a decent,humane human being, outraged by the murder of millions of Moslem innocents. These deaths are, in contrast, seen by the likes of Zionists as &#039;mitzvahs&#039; or good deeds, religious offerings to the genocidal Judaic &#039;God&#039;, itself a projection of perverted Zionist psyches. Abdulmuttalab, it is increasingly plain, was a Lee Harvey Oswald type patsy,set up and cultivated by Western intelligence utilising their creation &#039;al Qaeda&#039;. That said, attempting to kill innocent Westerners is wicked, as is all murder of innocents (and support for such murders, jon) and foolish, as it plays into the hands of the Zionazi hatemongers. If the attack had succeeded (or indeed now that it has failed) it was designed to increase hatred for Moslems, to facilitate the spread of Zionists&#039;s sacred slaughter to Yemen and to increase Western enthusiasm to complete Israel&#039;s War of Terror to destroy the Islamic Middle East. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done, MaryB. Well researched.  Abdulmuttalab sounds to me to have been a decent,humane human being, outraged by the murder of millions of Moslem innocents. These deaths are, in contrast, seen by the likes of Zionists as &#8216;mitzvahs&#8217; or good deeds, religious offerings to the genocidal Judaic &#8216;God&#8217;, itself a projection of perverted Zionist psyches. Abdulmuttalab, it is increasingly plain, was a Lee Harvey Oswald type patsy,set up and cultivated by Western intelligence utilising their creation &#8216;al Qaeda&#8217;. That said, attempting to kill innocent Westerners is wicked, as is all murder of innocents (and support for such murders, jon) and foolish, as it plays into the hands of the Zionazi hatemongers. If the attack had succeeded (or indeed now that it has failed) it was designed to increase hatred for Moslems, to facilitate the spread of Zionists&#8217;s sacred slaughter to Yemen and to increase Western enthusiasm to complete Israel&#8217;s War of Terror to destroy the Islamic Middle East.</p>
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		<title>By: Rehmat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rehmat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The New York Times quoted Barack Obama saying: “A full investigation has been launched in this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable….. This was a serious reminder of the danger we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland.”

And hold on to your hats – Al-Qaeda was more than glad to take the credit for this latest ’air terror’ – as expected!!

According to the ‘official story’ – A Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalab 23, on Christmas Day tried to blow-up a Trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines plane over Detriot – using a sophisticated explosive device sewn into his underwear. However, its makeshift detonator allegedly failed to work due to Obama’s “heroic actions of passengers and crew”.

Now cutting the numerous consipracy crap to blame Muslims for another act of ‘terrorism’ – I have just one question for the paranoid ‘Islamophobes’. How the heck Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalab was able to escape with his explosive device at Amsterdam Airport which uses ‘made in Israel’ the full body SEE YOUR NAKED BUTT scanners?

The security at Amsterdam airport is run by Israeli ICTS, the very same company which ran security at every single airport from which the 9-11 terrorists departed, apparently, also bypassing security checks. According to the company’s website: “ICTS is the main security vendor for the European operations of Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines. We are also the sole provider of security services at all of American Airlines and US Airways European stations”.

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-nigerian-terrorist/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The New York Times quoted Barack Obama saying: “A full investigation has been launched in this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable….. This was a serious reminder of the danger we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland.”</p>
<p>And hold on to your hats – Al-Qaeda was more than glad to take the credit for this latest ’air terror’ – as expected!!</p>
<p>According to the ‘official story’ – A Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalab 23, on Christmas Day tried to blow-up a Trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines plane over Detriot – using a sophisticated explosive device sewn into his underwear. However, its makeshift detonator allegedly failed to work due to Obama’s “heroic actions of passengers and crew”.</p>
<p>Now cutting the numerous consipracy crap to blame Muslims for another act of ‘terrorism’ – I have just one question for the paranoid ‘Islamophobes’. How the heck Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalab was able to escape with his explosive device at Amsterdam Airport which uses ‘made in Israel’ the full body SEE YOUR NAKED BUTT scanners?</p>
<p>The security at Amsterdam airport is run by Israeli ICTS, the very same company which ran security at every single airport from which the 9-11 terrorists departed, apparently, also bypassing security checks. According to the company’s website: “ICTS is the main security vendor for the European operations of Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines. We are also the sole provider of security services at all of American Airlines and US Airways European stations”.</p>
<p><a href="http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-nigerian-terrorist/" rel="nofollow">http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-nigerian-terrorist/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Maryb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maryb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t imagine there are two Venetia Thompsons and if the author of the tripe above is the same one described in this piece http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7641.cntns
I would say that she not a very credible source for some serious journalism. 

 She also writes for the Spectator, a right wing magazine owned by the Barclay Brothers who own the Daily Telegraph also right wing. Amongst the Spectator&#039;s authors is Martin Bright who was the editor of the New Statesman and who is now the political editor of the Jewish Chronicle.

Ms Thompson&#039;s articles include 
- Obama is an Othello for our times
White men only pretend to admire the presidential contender,
Beneath their supposed approval lurk primeval racist fears of the black ‘super-male’- 
- Lycra-clad assassins on wheels
Just the idea of the Copenhagen summit is enough to fill me with dread. Not because I’m frightened of global warming or enforced vegetarianism, or because I’m worried that environmental…
- The market is flooded with single City boys 
I’m back behind enemy lines in the Square Mile, thankfully nowhere near the trading floor I used to inhabit, but in a place nearly as terrifying


ROTFLOL as they say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t imagine there are two Venetia Thompsons and if the author of the tripe above is the same one described in this piece <a href="http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7641.cntns" rel="nofollow">http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7641.cntns</a><br />
I would say that she not a very credible source for some serious journalism. </p>
<p> She also writes for the Spectator, a right wing magazine owned by the Barclay Brothers who own the Daily Telegraph also right wing. Amongst the Spectator&#8217;s authors is Martin Bright who was the editor of the New Statesman and who is now the political editor of the Jewish Chronicle.</p>
<p>Ms Thompson&#8217;s articles include<br />
- Obama is an Othello for our times<br />
White men only pretend to admire the presidential contender,<br />
Beneath their supposed approval lurk primeval racist fears of the black ‘super-male’-<br />
- Lycra-clad assassins on wheels<br />
Just the idea of the Copenhagen summit is enough to fill me with dread. Not because I’m frightened of global warming or enforced vegetarianism, or because I’m worried that environmental…<br />
- The market is flooded with single City boys<br />
I’m back behind enemy lines in the Square Mile, thankfully nowhere near the trading floor I used to inhabit, but in a place nearly as terrifying</p>
<p>ROTFLOL as they say.</p>
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		<title>By: jon s</title>
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		<dc:creator>jon s</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See this, for a different take:
 
 My Classmate, the Plane Bomber
by Venetia Thompson
December 30, 2009 &#124; 10:51pm

  Tim Ireland / PA Wire / AP Photo; U.S. Marshal&#039;s Service / AP Photo The man who tried to blow up Flight 253 on Christmas allegedly turned toward al Qaeda at London University. Alum Venetia Thompson on going to school at terrorism&#039;s Ivy League.

When former University College London mechanical engineering student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, he became the fourth president of a student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years. Waheed Zaman, former president of the Islam Society at London Metropolitan University, is facing a retrial on charges that he was involved in the 2006 liquid-bomb plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, and two others have been convicted of terrorist offenses since 2007. The government-funded Islam and Citizenship Education Project, which aims to encourage British citizenship to be taught in madrassahs, and even supplies teaching materials, clearly has a lot of work to do, as do British universities.

“Everyone knows London universities are full of would-be nutters honing their engineering skills whilst simultaneously becoming increasingly religious. It’s one hell of a dangerous combo when you think about it.”

When I was in my final year at UCL, the “Christmas undie bomber” would have been in his first year, a “fresher.” We may even have crossed paths in the library or Students’ Union. Like all freshers, he would have attended the annual Freshers’ Fair and signed up to various clubs and societies, probably ignoring the Ultimate Frisbee Society and the Wilderness Medicine Society and making a bee-line for the Islamic Society, which he would then go on to lead. Whilst I was getting drunk and becoming increasingly convinced I was going to fail my finals, somewhere nearby he was beginning to be radicalized.

I had various encounters with the UCL Islamic Society, from the relatively innocent (constantly trying to get me to sign their anti-Israel or anti-Iraq war petitions, to wear one of their “Free Palestine” T-shirts, or to take one of their seemingly endless supply of leaflets promoting protests, sit-ins, and lectures by extremists) to the slightly more sinister (the friends I made in first year whom I gradually saw less and less of, and who even began dressing more conservatively as they became more involved with the society, or the girl I knew who told me she was warned against adopting “their”­as in our “Western”­culture by an older student she’d met during Freshers’ Week).

One former UCL student even says he was told whilst enjoying a pint in the union that it was his “duty” as a Muslim to attend society meetings and that he was frequently invited to Islamic study groups. He jokes that he was “probably seen as a sitting duck­I was even studying ‘bomb-making,’ as we affectionately referred to the Department of Chemical Engineering.”...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See this, for a different take:</p>
<p> My Classmate, the Plane Bomber<br />
by Venetia Thompson<br />
December 30, 2009 | 10:51pm</p>
<p>  Tim Ireland / PA Wire / AP Photo; U.S. Marshal&#8217;s Service / AP Photo The man who tried to blow up Flight 253 on Christmas allegedly turned toward al Qaeda at London University. Alum Venetia Thompson on going to school at terrorism&#8217;s Ivy League.</p>
<p>When former University College London mechanical engineering student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, he became the fourth president of a student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years. Waheed Zaman, former president of the Islam Society at London Metropolitan University, is facing a retrial on charges that he was involved in the 2006 liquid-bomb plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, and two others have been convicted of terrorist offenses since 2007. The government-funded Islam and Citizenship Education Project, which aims to encourage British citizenship to be taught in madrassahs, and even supplies teaching materials, clearly has a lot of work to do, as do British universities.</p>
<p>“Everyone knows London universities are full of would-be nutters honing their engineering skills whilst simultaneously becoming increasingly religious. It’s one hell of a dangerous combo when you think about it.”</p>
<p>When I was in my final year at UCL, the “Christmas undie bomber” would have been in his first year, a “fresher.” We may even have crossed paths in the library or Students’ Union. Like all freshers, he would have attended the annual Freshers’ Fair and signed up to various clubs and societies, probably ignoring the Ultimate Frisbee Society and the Wilderness Medicine Society and making a bee-line for the Islamic Society, which he would then go on to lead. Whilst I was getting drunk and becoming increasingly convinced I was going to fail my finals, somewhere nearby he was beginning to be radicalized.</p>
<p>I had various encounters with the UCL Islamic Society, from the relatively innocent (constantly trying to get me to sign their anti-Israel or anti-Iraq war petitions, to wear one of their “Free Palestine” T-shirts, or to take one of their seemingly endless supply of leaflets promoting protests, sit-ins, and lectures by extremists) to the slightly more sinister (the friends I made in first year whom I gradually saw less and less of, and who even began dressing more conservatively as they became more involved with the society, or the girl I knew who told me she was warned against adopting “their”­as in our “Western”­culture by an older student she’d met during Freshers’ Week).</p>
<p>One former UCL student even says he was told whilst enjoying a pint in the union that it was his “duty” as a Muslim to attend society meetings and that he was frequently invited to Islamic study groups. He jokes that he was “probably seen as a sitting duck­I was even studying ‘bomb-making,’ as we affectionately referred to the Department of Chemical Engineering.”&#8230;</p>
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