[Peace-discuss] The real terrorist plot

[C. G. Estabrook]

I did, and it would be intersting to know the immediate circumstances of this 
event.  But it's general cause is more important - it's a reponse to the war 
that the US has brought to the Mideast.

I think Cockburn has it right:

"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?"

It should be no mystery why these things are happening. --CGE


unionyes wrote:
> 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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