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Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI'
Mlive.com ^ | December 31 2009 | Aaron Foley

Posted on 12/31/2009 8:45:24 AM PST by crosslink

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To: crosslink

This needs to be sent to the foreign press. I’ll do my part.


61 posted on 12/31/2009 9:40:46 AM PST by bergmeid (obama. With a small o.)
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To: a fool in paradise

You can’t have an official story while there’s an unaccounted-for video floating around somewhere!


62 posted on 12/31/2009 9:42:19 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: crosslink

Is there a Part Two?


63 posted on 12/31/2009 9:45:18 AM PST by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Agencies lied in 2001 when they assured us that Charles Bishop/Bishra the Tampa teen kamikaze pilot crashed a stolen plane was NOT an act of terrorism. It was in the first line of his suicide note as well as praise for Osama and an empty bomb threat against the 2002 Super Bowl. The note was suppressed for a couple of months (but it was in his pocket at the time of the crash and in authorities hands at the time they denied any terrorist motive in flying a plane into a bank).


64 posted on 12/31/2009 9:46:33 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: Polynikes

I’d wager that all genuine attacks are “dry runs” until the opportunity presents itself to carry out the deed (bail out of the plot if it may not be successful).


65 posted on 12/31/2009 9:48:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: driftdiver

I agree with your latter point.

Pols don’t get to cover up stuff just because it makes them look bad.


66 posted on 12/31/2009 9:49:15 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: crosslink

The bomber was traveling on an Italian passport according to the Dutch terrorism spokesperson.


67 posted on 12/31/2009 9:51:19 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: crosslink
Add to this Rep. King's (R-NY) comments about not being able to get access to information regarding the flight despite his position on relevant congressional committees, and the red flags go higher.
68 posted on 12/31/2009 9:51:30 AM PST by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: EggsAckley

It’s not likely they’d subject a whole planeload to this treatment unless it was a really dicey situation and they just didn’t have any other way to try to see if someone on board was extra nervous about being in the same room with his baggage.

Even if this were the scenario, yeah, I would hope at the first sign of someone acting squirrelly and desperately trying to get out of the room, the authorities would have a plan to get everyone out safely.

In the 80s in Germany when they were dealing with a lot of domestic terrorism, and in Middle Eastern destinations, they would line the bags up on the tarmac by the plane. You had to walk by, identify your bags in the lineup, and have them checked against your ticket. Then you got on the plane — someone watched you get on -— and they put the bags aside for loading.

After all the passengers were on and the doors were closed, they loaded the bags.

If there were bags that no one claimed, which apparently had occured, special disposal teams were called.

It was not something I fully understood the significance of at the time.


69 posted on 12/31/2009 9:58:34 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Thanks


70 posted on 12/31/2009 10:00:36 AM PST by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: EggsAckley

P.S. Of course, the measures I’m describing do not work against the person who is willing to go down with the plane.


71 posted on 12/31/2009 10:00:37 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: truthandlife
I am with you. Maybe the FBI is waterboarding this guy and prevented other attacks from happening. I don’t think the public deserves to know everything if they are still investigating these other terror attacks.

Yep.

If there's anything about this info that leads closer to the serpent's head, go for it.

72 posted on 12/31/2009 10:02:16 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: crosslink; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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73 posted on 12/31/2009 10:04:05 AM PST by narses ('in an odd way this is cheering news!'.)
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To: crosslink; All

Related info:

Yemen: Visa of Nigerian would-be-bomber expired

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418475/posts


74 posted on 12/31/2009 10:04:54 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: FourPeas
The only problem I have with the authorities trying to avoid verifying some aspects of his account is their pitiful inability to do so convincingly.

Oy, it's a two-edged sword, isn't it?

OTOH, I agree with you that if you're going to do disinformation or legitimate shielding of leads, do it in a credible and convincing way.

OTOH, I don't know if Oscar-worthy performances by gumshoes is really the way to go.

Of course, there is a happy and effective median between ineptitude and excelling at deceiving.

75 posted on 12/31/2009 10:05:33 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: NeoCaveman
My gut says they might be ISI the Pakistani Intelligence Service.

What they are doing, I do not know

BINGO we have a winner. Many members of ISI are pissed we are blowing up their recruits. The problem is the good members of ISI will bury this report and the operative that was in the suit(literally).

76 posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:58 AM PST by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: VOA

Good catch.


77 posted on 12/31/2009 10:07:01 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: bgill; crosslink
Seriously Mr. Ron Smith, how stupid do you think the American public is?

Very. It's the same stupid American public who voted for a usurper and have allowed him to remain in office.

No, most of the American people know damn well what's going on.

Ya see, we're smart enough to know that the U.S. Government has been aiding and abetting the destruction of our borders and our sovereignty....This is no secret...

They U.S. Government has stood by and watched tens of millions enter this country illegally, (during war time) while supporting this violent invasion, and forcing legitimate Americans at gun point, to pay for it.

We know damn well this has totally undermined and compromised our entire electoral process, along with our entire system. This lawless epic invasion has virtually changed American history. We know this.

This incremental, destruction of our system, borders and our sovereignty has taken place over a period of several decades now, and has accelerated rapidly since the early 1980s.

78 posted on 12/31/2009 10:07:37 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: Polynikes
The fact that Mr. Haskell said there was a “cameraman” filming makes me wonder if this was a dress rehearsal. In other words sacrifice some low level incompetents with a device that had a substandard ignition to actively test security in a real world environment.

I mean, who films an entire flight? And one that just happens to turn out to be a terrorist target? Hmm?

And are there no security cameras at the airport, filming the boarding process?

79 posted on 12/31/2009 10:09:26 AM PST by fightinJAG (Mr. President: Why did you appoint a bunch of Communists to your Administration?)
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To: crosslink

bttt


80 posted on 12/31/2009 10:11:50 AM PST by Rightly Biased (If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
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