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Abdulmutallab Pleads Guilty, Sounds Warning Note in Detroit Court

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Posted on Oct 12, 2011
Northwest flight 253
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Scene of the incident: Northwest Airlines Flight 253 sits on the runway at Detroit Metro Airport after arriving intact from Amsterdam on Christmas Day 2009.

It’s a busy week in homeland security here in the U.S., what with the news of an alleged Iranian attempt on the life of a key Saudi diplomat (a case that wasn’t exactly news to select members of the Obama administration), and now a new chapter to an even older story with a prepackaged, media-generated catchphrase you may recall: “underwear bomber.”

Yes, there’s fresh action in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the now-25-year-old Nigerian al-Qaida operative who became instantly internationally notorious on Christmas Day 2009, when the explosive device he’d planted in his pants failed to detonate aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. On Wednesday, Abdulmutallab entered a guilty plea at the second day of his trial in a Detroit federal court after holding forth with what The Detroit News called a “lengthy rant” against America. Here’s what he had to say, MSM spoonfeeding aside.  —KA

The Detroit News:

“You knew it was an explosive, correct?” Tukel asked him.

“Yes,” he answered.

“It was intended to explode?” Tukel asked him.

“Yes,” Abdulmutallab answered.

Abdulmutallab also ranted against the U.S. after pleading guilty.

“The United States should be warned,” he said. “If the United States continues to persist and promote the blasphemy of Mohammed and the prophets and continues to support those who kill innocent Muslims, they should await a great calamity that will befall them at the hands of the mujahedeen by God’s will and permission soon or God will strike them directly with a great calamity soon. If you laugh at us now, we will laugh at you later in this life and at the day of judgment.”

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By berniem, October 13, 2011 at 12:17 pm Link to this comment

Any wagers out there as to when somebody will eventually succeed in blowing up the Reichstag?

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By Spire, October 13, 2011 at 10:58 am Link to this comment
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In an interview, Haskell proposed a reason for this turn of events. At a recent hearing the Judge asked Abdulmutallab for a list of witnesses because none had yet been submitted. He gave them Haskell’s name as the sole witness. The next day or so, as the the trial began, he pled guilty. SO, when he brought Haskell forward, Abdulmutallab was probably promised a lighter sentence than he had been offered before. Any proof for this, Haskell said, would be indicated if Abdulmutallab gets a real light sentence; sentencing should be around December. Haskell is now going the civil route, and hopefully thinking about getting a body guard.

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By MK Ultra, October 13, 2011 at 10:48 am Link to this comment

““The United States should be warned,” he said. “If the United States continues to persist and promote the blasphemy of Mohammed and the prophets and continues to support those who kill innocent Muslims, they should await a great calamity that will befall them at the hands of the mujahedeen by God’s will and permission soon or God will strike them directly with a great calamity soon. If you laugh at us now, we will laugh at you later in this life and at the day of judgment.”

Wow!  Poor patsy.  They actually made him learn by heart that line of crap written by some idiot at the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity.  How transparent.  How sad.  How pitiful.  How tragic!  This is what the US has been reduced to, setting up brown people from far away lands with oil and have them recite Islamophobe shit in a purported court of law.  Sad, sad, sad…

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By thecrow, October 13, 2011 at 4:57 am Link to this comment

Kurt Haskell was set to testify.

Suddenly the patsy changes his mind and pleads guilty on all counts.

Sure. Whatever you say, spooks.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/points-of-failure/

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By Outraged, October 13, 2011 at 12:36 am Link to this comment

Article quote:

“The United States should be warned,” he said. “If the United States continues to persist and promote the blasphemy of Mohammed and the prophets and continues to support those who kill innocent Muslims, they should await a great calamity that will befall them at the hands of the mujahedeen by God’s will and permission soon or God will strike them directly with a great calamity soon. If you laugh at us now, we will laugh at you later in this life and at the day of judgment.”

Sounds like the nutty right wingers!  All one has to do is replace Mohammed with “Jesus” and Muslims with “unborn” and mujahedeen with “operation rescue”.

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By Spire, October 13, 2011 at 12:02 am Link to this comment
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Just Wait!!  This is a stellar agent provocateur case, admitted to by the State Dept. a few months later but hardly carried in the news, but still here (link).
http://thecable.foreignpolicy....

Kurt Haskell, returning from vacation, was on the flight. He saw what happened, and was the reason the State Dept. had to admit complicity. Link to his website. NOTHING of this is carried in the MSM. Kurt is now filing a civil suit before Xmas.

http://haskellfamily.blogspot....

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By FRTothus, October 12, 2011 at 11:34 pm Link to this comment

Was the “well-dressed gentleman” who expedited this
patsy on board called as a witness, the man who saw
to it that, though this dupe had no passport, no
luggage, and paid in cash he cannot account for for
the ticket, was ushered on board past security?  Were
the two Detroit witnesses to this security breach
called to the stand?  There is no shortage of those
who have motive, who are quite rightly and
justifiably angry with US policies which bring wars
and death and torture and exploitation home to them,
but the fact that they do not by themselves have the
means, that they most often have officials who act on
their behalf to ensure that they are provided the
means, is never the issue in courts and a justice
(sic) system intent on finding culprits to justify
their War of Terror, no matter how inept or incapable
said patsies might be on their own.  So while the
rest of the traveling public are getting groped
before we are allowed to fly, pulled off flights as a
result of blood-libel and racial profiling, we can
rest assured that the security and intelligence
forces will still be able to get a bomb and a willing
dupe aboard to make sure the trillions of taxpayer
dollars continue to flow to the arms industry and
Pentagon, that the military budget continues to rob
us blind, that the Bill of Rights remains a dead
letter, and that the perpetual wars remain perpetual.

There is not one “terror plot” that does not have
US/Anglo intelligence fingerprints all over it, does
not stink of a false-flag, manufactured event, does
not have in its background intelligence and/or
military handlers that make sure the normal
safeguards are undone, that normal security stands
down or is by-passed.  These show trials are just
that: stage-shows for a public willing to believe
whatever they are told, by people who have every
reason to lie about their motives and involvement. 
The real terrorists are in the Pentagon, Langley, the
White House, the US State Department, MI-5 & 6,
Capitol Hill, Parliament, and the Knesset.  They are
most often white men, often wearing suits or military
uniforms or with previous military experience, often
with diplomatic immunity.  Start profiling these
characters, and the real terrorists will be found.

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