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Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane
mlive.com ^ | Dec.26, 2009 | Sheena Harrison

Posted on 12/27/2009 9:24:51 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.

Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.

Kurt and Lori Haskell are attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor. Their expertise includes bankruptcy, family law and estate planning.

While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”

Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab's lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.

The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn't see Mutallab again until after he allegedly tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.

Haskell said the flight was mostly unremarkable. That was until he heard a flight attendant say she smelled smoke, just after the pilot announced the plane would land in Detroit in 10 minutes. Haskell got out of his seat to view the brewing commotion.

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1 posted on 12/27/2009 9:24:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane

No...it couldn't be...


2 posted on 12/27/2009 9:27:34 PM PST by jessduntno ("The system is working just as it should..." - Jan "The Man" Napolitano)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if the hippieland airport has video that shows this. If so, the ‘proper authorities’ probably have it by now and are putting out an all-points on the well-dressed knucklehead.


3 posted on 12/27/2009 9:29:31 PM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pakistani ISI perhaps?


4 posted on 12/27/2009 9:29:41 PM PST by ikka
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To: Free ThinkerNY

162 replies - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415422/posts

70 replies - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415739/posts


5 posted on 12/27/2009 9:29:54 PM PST by Ready4Freddy (Everyone knows there's a difference between muslims & terrorists... no one knows what it is, though.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well dressed White House Commissar of Terrorist Assistance?


6 posted on 12/27/2009 9:31:44 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: jessduntno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo


7 posted on 12/27/2009 9:33:22 PM PST by Cheburashka (Lesson #1 from Battlestar Galactica: Never turn your back on your toaster.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

“I wonder if the hippieland airport has video that shows this.”

There is no better airport security in Europe than Schiphol.


8 posted on 12/27/2009 9:34:24 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”

This guy?


9 posted on 12/27/2009 9:37:13 PM PST by OCC
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To: trumandogz

Now we are hearing all about the enhanced security measures we will face at check in and on board. Yep, just like anything else in this mad mad world. In this case, it is harass those of us who are law abiding and if we give the wizards of smart at TSA any lip at all we are hauled off and charged/ But let those Imams make a fuss in the airport or those Muzzies cause troubles on aircraft as they are about to depart and all the pc crap is there to give them wide berth...
I think it is high time security everywhere start giving not one rats gluts and get as tough on the Muslims and those who practice Islam and maybe when the peace loving muslims among them get so tired of being treated like the bad guys maybe then they might just take some control of their own fellow bad guy muzzies and help stop all this crap.
My kids are on the way to ICeland tomorrow and normally I wish I was going along but not this time. I hope they have no problmes.


10 posted on 12/27/2009 9:39:01 PM PST by celtic gal (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bill Ayers?


11 posted on 12/27/2009 9:39:19 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: Free ThinkerNY
THIS JUST IN: WE NOW HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MAN WHO HELPED THE WOULD-BE TERRORIST.


12 posted on 12/27/2009 9:39:33 PM PST by blake6900
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To: blake6900

Quick send this to Shelly, the First Frump! She will want to know about this so she can take care of business..maybe she will clobber him.


13 posted on 12/27/2009 9:41:27 PM PST by celtic gal (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The man flashed a badge and said “its ok. We’re with al qaeda”


14 posted on 12/27/2009 9:41:39 PM PST by jd777
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To: Diogenesis

Help me out here Freepers....but isn’t the Obama Islam bloodline come from Yemen, and recently immigrated to their new country Kenya.. What’s going on...someone please tell me!


15 posted on 12/27/2009 9:46:49 PM PST by rovenstinez (All)
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To: Cheburashka

Da best!!!


16 posted on 12/27/2009 11:19:36 PM PST by Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Basin; when you're there , thats the best)
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To: jd777

“He is not the droid you are looking for”...


17 posted on 12/27/2009 11:22:22 PM PST by Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Basin; when you're there , thats the best)
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To: Atchafalaya

Excellent post.


18 posted on 12/27/2009 11:23:21 PM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: gitmo

Thanks, if you really want a confidence builder check out the post on breaking news, a must read: “Napolitano: The system worked”.
If her clueless incompetence illustrated doesn’t scare the crap out of you nothing will. Buy more ammo.


19 posted on 12/28/2009 12:18:12 AM PST by Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Basin; when you're there , thats the best)
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To: celtic gal

So now authorities will have to have all passengers board in their birthday suits...right?


20 posted on 12/28/2009 12:38:45 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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