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Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI'
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html ^

Posted on 12/31/2009 10:53:59 AM PST by CSA Rebel

Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday...

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Can someone help me understand what this guy is saying and why Drudge is all over it? I thought it was common knowledge the suspect boarded without a passport? So what, the airport security has been a joke since 9/12/01. Is he mad because the feds took a guy into custody, are interrogating him, and won't release those details? I have to be missing something more sinister, that's why I'm asking you guys who have been following this story all along to fill me in.
1 posted on 12/31/2009 10:53:59 AM PST by CSA Rebel
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I think he is mad because we are being lied to.


2 posted on 12/31/2009 11:00:34 AM PST by GnL
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"For the last five days I have been reporting my story of the so called "sharp dressed man." For those of you who haven't read my account, it involves a sharp dressed "Indian man" attempting to talk a ticket agent into letting a supposed "Sudanese refugee" (The terrorist) onto flight 253 without a passport. I have never had any idea how it played out except to note that the so called "Sudanese reefugee" later boarded my flight and attempted to blow it up and kill me. At no time did my story involve, or even find important whether the terrorist actually had a passport. The importance of my story was and always will be, the attempt with an accomplice (apparently succesful) of a terrorist with all sorts of prior terrorist warning signs to skirt the normal passport boarding procedures in Amsterdam. By the way, Amsterdam security did come out the other day and admit that the terrorist did not have to "Go through normal passport checking procedures".

Amsterdam security, please define to the American public "Normal passport boarding procedures".

You see the FBI would have the American public believe that what was important was whether the terrorist in fact had a passport.

3 posted on 12/31/2009 11:02:02 AM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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This guy is all over the net trying to grab his 10 minutes in the spotlight. I would just assume he would shut up and go back to being an attorney, or better still, get a real job. I don’t see any benefit to the FBI providing full public disclosure to any information re terrorists or their activities.


4 posted on 12/31/2009 11:02:17 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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IMPORTANT Bookmark.

This story needs to be put on the front page of EVERY newspaper in the country. (But it won’t.)


5 posted on 12/31/2009 11:03:02 AM PST by i_dont_chat (Our black President is quite blackmailable.)
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The bomber was traveling on an Italian passport.


6 posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:57 AM PST by jimbo123
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His story pretty much explains it all. Besides the Nigerian terrorist that was arrested, there was a bag inspection of the remaining passengers and another man (Indian?) dressed in orange was taken into custody. This has been hushed up. Why? Maybe they screwed up because there may have been a bomb in the Indian guy in orange’s bag that the dogs alerted on. The problem is they left almost 300 passengers in the airplane for 20 minutes to 1 hour with a potential bomb explosion coming. Are they trying to cover up their incompetence now? Mr. Haskell has no agenda to drive, that I can think of.


7 posted on 12/31/2009 11:05:15 AM PST by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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I thinks it’s because he believes the guy had help at the airport but we’re not being told about it. I read another story from someone on the plane who said there was a guy on board who was videotaping the entire incident from start to finish but no one is talking about that either. I may not be up to date on the latest, though.


8 posted on 12/31/2009 11:07:54 AM PST by jennyjenny
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But don’t we already know airport security is a farce? So are we trying to further drive home this well known fact? I’m ok with that, I’m just trying to figure out if that is the whole reason for this article.

Being denied information by our government about details of the investigation is common practice. So surely he’s not harping on this. His right to know isn’t more important than figuring this out and sending a cruise missle to another Yemeni home full of terrorists.


9 posted on 12/31/2009 11:11:46 AM PST by CSA Rebel
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I thought it was common knowledge the suspect boarded without a passport?

Yes. It is common knowledge. But the story is probably not true.

The reports on the passport issue are all over the map. I'm still waiting for some really definitive report. With Obama we may wait forever.

10 posted on 12/31/2009 11:15:18 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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If that were true, we would not have allowed Mr. Nigerian enemy combatant to lawyer up. This looks like a case where the other individual could have possibly blown the plane up on the tarmac, and the FBI is playing CYA. I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of being lied to by govt.


11 posted on 12/31/2009 11:18:05 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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His account differs somewhat from another passenger's. I posted this on another thread:

...What also didn’t make the news is that we were held on the plane for 20 minutes AFTER IT LANDED!. A bomb could have gone off then...

This doesn't jive with another passenger's account as reported on the WTMG Radio's website:

"...They got us off faster than anything you've ever seen, and then they shuffled us off to a room where we spent quite a few hours..."

12 posted on 12/31/2009 11:19:23 AM PST by FReepaholic (My other tagline is hilarious.)
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I don’t disagree with you about us not needing to know everything. I got the impression he was saying we’re being told this guy acted alone on the plane and he, and possibly others, are saying that was not the case. It could have been a dry run to see how the passengers and crew react with the distraction of one guy attempting something, allowing the others to do the real damage. Who knows?


13 posted on 12/31/2009 11:19:40 AM PST by jennyjenny
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I think he is credible. Why won’t the FBI say why the terrorist was allowed on the plane without having to go through regular passport scrutiny?

I think he’s spot on!


14 posted on 12/31/2009 11:21:04 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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But he was waved into a back room where he did not have to go through the normal passport process according to Haskell.


15 posted on 12/31/2009 11:21:54 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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The “dry run” theory with the videotape is more interesting. I wasn’t thinking that angle.


16 posted on 12/31/2009 11:24:50 AM PST by CSA Rebel
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Who was the “sharply dressed” man? Was he a Yeman or Nigerian diplomat? Was he in on the bombing? How many times have they had some sort of special boarding arrangements in the past. Who was the other man? How did he get an Italian passport? Who took the eunich bombers name off the passenger list? Napolitan hired a few Muslims as advisors - one can only wonder. I was just listening to ABC radio news and they’re two days behind in the news. They’re only now reporting that the dad reported his son being involved with jihadi, after they got text messages from him, stating he was breaking all ties with his family. One mustn’t forget the father was a multi-billionaire with all the power that gives him which is a lot. It all appears to be smoke and mirrors and the lawyer witness wants clarification. Good for him. He was a passenger on the plane and has every right to follow up on the reporting.


17 posted on 12/31/2009 11:25:22 AM PST by bronxville
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Didn't Obomba state that the bomber attempt was an isolated incident, or something? This guy contradicts that, he puts it at a much more organized level, if true.
18 posted on 12/31/2009 11:25:50 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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Why won’t the FBI say why the terrorist was allowed on the plane without having to go through regular passport scrutiny?

Maybe because they are not accountable to him.

19 posted on 12/31/2009 11:27:08 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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“This guy is all over the net trying to grab his 10 minutes in the spotlight.”

This guy thinks he is a hot shot. But his complaints about passengers from other airliners being mixed in is off target. Others would be screened due to fears of a Bojinka, multiple plane attack.


20 posted on 12/31/2009 11:29:21 AM PST by Shermy
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