Saturday, October 30, 2010

Those Airplane Bombs - Something Doesn't Add Up

The story coming out about two bombs air freighted from Yemen, destination Chicago, doesn't make a lot of sense.

We're told the bombs were very sophisticated, even sniffer dogs couldn't detect the explosive charges.  One was rigged with a cell phone detonator, the other a timer.   Both bombs were supposedly to detonate while the aircraft was over the Atlantic.

It seems the bombs were detected, and disarmed, before the aircraft left Europe for the United States.  The Brits were apparently onto the plot.   Yet both aircraft were allowed to continue to the United States with the presumably disarmed bombs still aboard.  That's hard to understand.

What about the Canadian F-18s sent up to escort the aircraft to the U.S. border?  Why?  Were officials afraid the flight crews of those freighters were up to no good?

But what really gets me is the description of the packages in which the al-Qaeda bombs were allegedly secreted.  Printer cartridges.   Printer cartridges being shipped, by air, from high-tech Yemen to the United States.   Coals to Newcastle?  Printer cartridges being shipped from Yemen, that hotbed of Islamist radicalism, addressed to synagogues in the States?  Synagogues?   Packages in Yemen addressed to American synagogues.  Wow that won't draw any attention at all, will it?

Now I'm no terrorist but it strikes me that an Islamist terrorist wanting to air freight a bomb onto a jet freighter in Yemen would never, absolutely not ever, address the packages to a U.S. synagogue.

This just doesn't add up.  What gives?   What do you think?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah, it does seem bizarre: why didn't they just pull the packages In London or wherever they IDd (and disarmed?!) them instead of putting them back on the passenger plane & potentially endangering the passengers & wherever it blew up or got shot down over, and alarming two countries: unless it was a deliberate decision by the US Military, to Wag the Dog / change the channel &/or influence the upcoming US midterms AND try to influence our F-35 purchase (it was NORAD who ordered us to scramble the jets).

Anonymous said...

Doesn't it amaze how an entire continent salivates on cue?
And, how the reverse affect is true at the news that the USA is responsible for 5 million Iraqi refugees and a death toll that quit tick in that country at somewhere around 1 million.

Beijing York said...

The whole things seems odd. Why target synagogues in Chicago? Why make it so easy to track?

Also interesting that their claiming a female university student culpable as well as her mother.

Anonymous said...

Nothing suspicious at all...
A few days earlier, British Airway chairman Martin Broughton states that some checks are "completely redundant" and that people are kowtowing to the US...

Automagically, we hear about this bomb plot involving the evil terrorists (likely al-Qaeda), Britain the US and Jews... Either the "terrorists" are getting extremely stupid or the boys over at the CIA have been watching too many episodes of 24...

The Mound of Sound said...

I've tried this one from all angles and it still doesn't make sense. There's a back story here. Was a time I was really good at sniffing out that sort of thing but, based on the info to date, I'm stymied. We're probably all best off to withhold judgment on this for a few weeks, perhaps a couple of months.

LeDaro said...

MoS, you're absolutely right my friend. It looked suspicious from the moment news broke.

Is it possible that Israelis are party to this to agitate the US and West. Also is it an attempt to justify two futile wars?

Okie said...

Beware Beware of Heffalumps and Woozles and things that go bump in the night.

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