[Peace-discuss] The real terrorist plot

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Did you read the eye-witness account by the attorney and his wife from 
Detroit at www.mlive.com ?

You should  !

David J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:15 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] The real terrorist plot


> [ALEXANDER COCKBURN assesses the real source of terrorism. --CGE]
>
> Once again hands are raised in stupefaction. How could they have missed 
> him – meaning in this case Umar Abdulmutallab the Nigerian bomber on that 
> flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Why, his own father – one of the most 
> powerful bankers in Africa – gave the US embassy in Lagos a warning! He 
> was on the US master computer list of potential terrorists but never made 
> it on to the watch list.
>
> The Truthers reject the obvious answers – caution, bureaucratic inertia, 
> buck-passing, turf fights – and say it was a plot. Obama joins Bush and 
> Cheney in the big conspiracy. It won’t be long before David Griffin rushes 
> out a book on the affair.
>
> Personally, I’m not at all dismayed at evidence that intelligence 
> gathering networks are flawed, that bureaucrats pass the buck. 
> Hyper-efficiency in these matters indicates we have arrived at the perfect 
> police state.
>
> Of course there is room for common sense and elementary vigilance. In the 
> case of the Virginia Tech killer there was plenty of evidence that Cho 
> Seung-hui was a time bomb waiting to explode. Students talked about him as 
> a possible shooter and refused to take classes with him. His essays so 
> disturbed one of his teachers with their violent ravings that she arranged 
> a secret signal in case she needed security during her tutorials.
>
> And then was there was proof positive that the time bomb had exploded and 
> the mass murder session began in the engineering building, the police 
> state proved all too human in actual performance. The police cowered 
> behind their cruisers until Cho Seung-hui finished off the last batch of 
> his 32 victims, then killed himself. Then the police bravely rushed in and 
> started sticking their guns in the faces of the traumatised students, 
> screaming at them to freeze or be shot.
>
> Major Hasan offers another bracing illustration of the human capacity to 
> avoid unpleasant decisions, like dealing with an Army shrink who had 
> Soldier of Islam on his visiting cards, discussed openly the ethics of 
> armed resistance to Christian assaults on Islam and so forth.
>
> But without the advantage of hindsight were the signs that obvious? Not 
> really. A Serbian woman I met at a New Years Party says that on her way 
> from Abu Dhabi to Seattle she passed though Amsterdam airport the same day 
> as Abdulmutallab and security was tight and the questioning she got was 
> pretty rigorous. The story – now canonized by conspiracists – of the well 
> dressed man trying to finagle a passportless Abdulmutallab onto the plane 
> seems to be without foundation.
>
> Now there’s an avalanche of punditry about Britain’s Islamic minority as 
> the petrie dish in which toxic cultures of militant Islam flourish and 
> multiply. At this rate they’ll soon be deploying the Delta Force in 
> Birmingham and bombing mosques across the Midlands with drones.
>
> The real petrie dish is US national policy, abetted by junior partners in 
> the UK, France and Germany: widening attacks on Afghanistan, an unfolding 
> record of torturing captives to death since 2001, full support for Israel’s 
> onslaughts on Palestinians and calculated mass murder. What does a radical 
> imam in the UK or Yemen have to offer as incitement to attack America that 
> is as vividly persuasive as Obama and Hillary Clinton’s cheerleading for 
> Israel or the posture of the US Congress?
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/
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