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President Obama talks about the suspicious Chicago-bound packages during a briefing Friday.

On Friday, President Obama announced that he’d been told Thursday night about two suspicious packages heading to the U.S. from Yemen that turned out to contain explosives and represented a terrorist threat.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets from Yemen. Parts of the plot might remain undetected, President Barack Obama’s counterterror chief warned.

Obama called the coordinated attacks a “credible terrorist threat” amid worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new campaign of assaults.

“The United States is not assuming that the attacks were disrupted and is remaining vigilant,” Obama adviser John Brennan said at the White House.

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By antonio zighelboim, November 4, 2010 at 3:12 pm Link to this comment
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Al Qaeda ia not a terrorist group. It is a cell of teh CIA! Dam it!

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By fearnotruth, November 1, 2010 at 11:56 pm Link to this comment

unprovable (?) -  not so fast, big fella (assuming I’m a guy and so are
you)... lots to assume there, big fella; but we’ve come to expect that, haven’t
we?

here - http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html -  Michel
Chossudovsky lays out an extensively footnoted short but clear, historic explication of just how
the of the Global War Of Terror was designed and launched. Copied below is about the 1st
25% - if in doubt, follow the footnotes.

“Now the Taliban will pay a price” vowed President George W. Bush, as
American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks against major
cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is
behind the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war supposedly
“against international terrorism” has been launched, yet the evidence amply
confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold War harbored
the “Islamic Militant Network” as part of Washington’s foreign policy agenda. In
a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting the training camps established in the
1980s by the CIA.

The main justification for waging this war has been totally fabricated. The
American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their
government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our
collective future.

“OSAMAGATE”

by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa

Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001

Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny
its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an
“intelligence asset” during the Cold War, the relationship is said to “go way
back”. Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the
“bygone era” of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as
“irrelevant” to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent
history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist
organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or
downplayed by the Western media.

Yes, We did support Him, but “He Went Against Us”

A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called “blowback” thesis:
“intelligence assets” are said to “have gone against their sponsors”; “what we’ve
created blows back in our face.“1 In a twisted logic, the US government and the
CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims:

The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands of
tons of arms supplied to them by the US - and Britain - are now tormenting the
West in the phenomenon known as `blowback’, whereby a policy strategy
rebounds on its own devisers. 2

The US media, nonetheless, concedes that “the Taliban’s coming to power [in
1995] is partly the outcome of the U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical
Islamic group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet Union”.3 But it also
readily dismisses its own factual statements and concludes in chorus, that the
CIA had been tricked by a deceitful Osama. It’s like “a son going against his
father”.

The “blowback” thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the
CIA never severed its ties to the “Islamic Militant Network”. Since the end of the
Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they
have in become increasingly sophisticated.

New undercover initiatives financed by the Golden Crescent drug trade were set
in motion in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Pakistan’s military and
intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA) essentially “served as a catalyst
for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim
republics in Central Asia.” 4

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By Inherit The Wind, November 1, 2010 at 10:06 pm Link to this comment

BelieveEveryConspiracy:

You’re right. I’m not wasting time going around the block on this again.  It is my personal opinion that you and others like you are delusional and there’s nothing I can do about it other than to point out to rational people that your delusions aren’t facts or logical.

Sorry, guy, I’ve argued this out 100 times or more so you can keep your fantasies, just like the religious prefer to believe in the unprovable.

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By fearnotruth, November 1, 2010 at 12:29 am Link to this comment

we’ve been around this block before, ITW… “even 100 want to attack us???”

no doubt by now… many hundreds of widowed, orphans, maimed and crippled
drone-attack survivors in Waziristan think of little else, but how on earth would
they do that?

the most obvious aspect of virtually every false flag provocation is simply this:
the patsy cannot do it; e.g.

Mid-August 2001: Hijacker Hanjour Still Not Skilled Enough to Fly Solo - 9/11
hijacker Hani Hanjour goes to the Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, about 20
miles west of Washington. He wants to rent a single engine Cessna airplane.
However, when two instructors take him on three test runs, they find he has
trouble controlling and landing the plane. One instructor has to help him land.
Due to his poor skills, therefore, he is not allowed to rent one of their planes
without more lessons. 

in this case the patsy even needed a CIA mole to approve his visa:

Future 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour applies for a US tourist/business visa at the
US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Hanjour, who has already spent a good
deal of time in the US (see October 3, 1991-February 1992, Spring 1996,
October 1996-December 1997, and 1998), uses a passport issued on July 24,
2000.

His application is incomplete, as he says he is a student, but fails to give his
school’s name and address. After his application is screened, he is referred to a
consular officer for an interview. [9/11 COMMISSION, 8/21/2004, PP. 13, 174-
5 ]

This consular officer is Shayna Steinger, who issues a total of 12 visas to the
9/11 hijackers (see July 1, 2000). [9/11 COMMISSION, 12/30/2002, PP. 2;
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (US DEPARTMENT OF STATE), 1/30/2003]
Hanjour’s application is denied as he says he wants to stay in the US for three
years, raising concerns he might become an immigrant.

Hanjour also says he wants to attend flight school in the US, changing his
status to “student” from “tourist” after arrival. However, this is another reason
Steinger denies the visa application, “because he has been in the States long
enough to decide what he wanted.”

Hanjour will return to the consulate two weeks later and successfully obtain a
visa from Steinger using a different application (see September 25, 2000).
[9/11 COMMISSION, 8/21/2004, PP. 13, 174-5 ] Steinger will later give a series
of conflicting explanations about why she reversed her decision and issued the
visa (see August 1, 2002, January 20, 2003, and December 30, 2003).

After 9/11, a former consular official named Michael Springmann will say that
while serving in Jeddah during the Soviet-Afghan War he was sometimes
pressured to reverse denials of visa applications by the CIA for apparent
mujaheddin (see September 1987-March 1989).
Entity Tags: US Consulate, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Office, Hani Hanjour, Shayna
Steinger
Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline
Category Tags: Hani Hanjour

more here
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&the;_alleged_9/11_hijackers=haniHanjour

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By Steve E, October 31, 2010 at 11:44 pm Link to this comment

Only a complete imbecile would accept out of hand anything the media or our
government declared as true. Especially after 9/11.

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By Inherit The Wind, October 31, 2010 at 10:23 pm Link to this comment

Two thirds of the posters here are truly loony.  They simply cannot believe anyone in the Arab world would want to attack Americans.  Over a BILLION Arab people and not even 100 want to attack us??? We have more home-grown terrorists than that!

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By fearnotruth, October 31, 2010 at 2:09 pm Link to this comment

This psyop is as transparent as the “underwear bomber” - the “shipment” was
likely shepherded onto the plane by the same operatives who set the sheep-
dipped underwear patsy on course.

Seems the uberplaners have become too fearful of charges of crimes against
humanity to stage any more false flag provocations where westerners actually
die - non-westerners, no sweat, who’s counting? - since 9/11, 7/7 and Madrid
all false flags have been duds: Shoe Bomber, Liquid Bombs, Sears Tower,
Heathrow Car Bomb, Underwear Bomber, Times Square Car Bomb - all designed
to fail in the hands of typically inept paties - clearly it’s been determined that a
so-called ‘thwarted threat’ is a enough of a psyop to refuel the Global War Of
Terror.

thanks to omop for directing us to
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/31/gordon-duff-bombs-terrorism-and-manure/


GORDON DUFF: BOMBS, TERRORISM AND MANURE

October 31, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff · 5 Comments
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Last week, we were told courier services were carrying powerful and
undetectable bombs, sent from Yemen, mailed to “Chicago synagogues” to
strike out at America’s Jewish population just before the elections.  This would
seem like a credible terrorist act if it were not for a few things:

Recent “debunked” terror threats, Adam “Perlman” Gadahn, the actor playing
“American Taliban” and the long dead Osama bin Laden had both issued terror
alerts that had, as usual, made no reference to Israel or Palestinians.  This time,
the press noticed and Israel became suspect number one as to the real origin of
these threats.

Wikileaks has also been “outed” as a source unique in its protection of Israel
and its interests.  Reports have been proven to be, not only altered or falsified,
but carefully filtered using PROMIS software, proving high level government
complicity in filtering and fabricating data.  Today, Israel announced that
Wikileaks proves they were singled out by the UN for investigation for atrocities
in Gaza as proven by the Goldstone Report.  They now ask for a similar
investigation of the United States, a nation they used to consider an ally, the
nation that underwrites their economy with massive economic aid.

Newspaper reports, so often horribly unreliable, have universally
misrepresented the nature of the explosive used, PETN, its detectability and
function.  This is not a minor thing, not at all.  Literally hundreds of reporters
were fed information easily disproven in Wikipedia.

We have seen it all before.  Last Christmas, the “Crotch Bomber” was another
“PETN/Yemen” terror fiasco.  Press stories blamed Al Qaeda and were ready to
build this into a new 9/11 except that reliable witnesses, Detroit area
attorneys, saw the terrorist, no passport, no visa, escorted onto the plane. 
Before that, newspapers said the bomber had a diplomatic passport, a visa and
had “evaded” security.

“Security” put him on the plane, security employed by a company whose
management and employees are largely IDF and Mossad and whose owners are
Israeli.

Worse still, the “terrorists” father, described by the press as a “Muslim banker”
turned out to be a partner in an Israeli managed defense company and a close
friend of the CIA.

Now we have the arrest, today, of a young woman in Yemen, one with no ties to
extremist organizations or terrorism.  When this story is “peeled away,” beneath
the “spin,” where will it go?  The problem is, every story is “spin” and has to be
discarded.  What does this tell us?

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By omop, October 30 at 6:54 pm:

“It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and
Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of
jihad … by striking the Zio-Crusader interests,” he [Gadahn] said, referring to Western
and Jewish interests.

Seems like Gadahn’s goals and yours are one and the same. Don’t you want to defend Islam and Muslims? Don’t you, too, want to strike at the Zio-Crusader interests?

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By omop, October 31, 2010 at 10:47 am Link to this comment

MAANI

  This is what I read.

  Gadahn call to attack Americans comes from Israel

Gordon Duff – Veterans Today October 25, 2010

“Israeli terrorist “clones” are responsible for most hard line rhetoric, threats and,
if we investigated closely, have actually recruited terrorists and directly inspired,
if not planned and executed, attacks on Americans…Gadahn is part of it, so is
Wikileaks”

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror
campaign, was spread around the world. The message, we are told, was found
on a “secret website” by an Israeli company who put it in a press release.

There is no evidence any American Muslim has ever been on the website
referred to, no American intelligence agency could find it, not the CIA or the FBI
or Homeland Security. There was only one way the 300,000 Muslims of Detroit
could hear call to terrorism, from an Israeli company that passes on such
messages for profit.

Does it create them too? You be the judge.

Let’s look at a possible analogy. If you were to capture a vicious rabid dog in the
wilderness and turned it loose in a children’s playground, would you be a
terrorist?

This is essentially what is being admitted to.

What is in question, another analogy, is whether you purposefully infected the
dog with rabies in the first place. Either way, you are a terrorist.

Adam Gadahn, the “American Taliban,” the lisping, overweight bungler
continually calling for the murder of Americans is really named Adam Perlman
from a family highly influential in the Anti-Defamation League. The group
distributing his threats, SITE Intelligence, contracted to the American
government, is run by a former IDF member whose father was executed in Iraq
as a Mossad terrorist. SITE Intelligence is the source of the Osama bin Laden
tapes long proven to be, not only the wrong voice, but to resemble bin Laden so
little as to have become a joke.

Gadahn came on the scene when tapes of Osama bin Laden claiming credit for
9/11 failed forensic examination. They were counterfeits. The CIA’s own version
had bin Laden denying any involvement. (See APPENDIX below for official CIA
tran

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By omop, October 31, 2010 at 9:55 am Link to this comment

The only Al Queda member who would know where all streets and towns where
the Jewish synagogues are located iis Adam Gadahn the grandson of former Anti-
Defamation League board member Carl K. Pearlman.

AP reports from Cairo a week ago that Adam Gadhan In a 48-minute video
posted on militant websites, directed his appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he
called the “miserable suburbs” of Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those
traveling to the West to study or work.

Without Adam’s help those barefooted Yemenis would not know the difference
between a printer or an Ipad.

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By Leefeller, October 31, 2010 at 8:56 am Link to this comment

Chumming the waters does not seem sporting, but neither does politics where rules or laws are like accountability and integrity, absent!

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By morristhewise, October 31, 2010 at 8:24 am Link to this comment

Pan Arabian secret police are now fully in charge in the war against terrorism.
Their favorite weapon against enemies of the state are police lab manufactured
devices that can be mistaken for bombs.  They wind up in the hands of political
opponents who either try to use them or are captured with the pseudo bomb in
their possession. This ploy has led to the arrests of over a million electronically
challenged dissidents with evil intentions.

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By youknowwhho, October 30, 2010 at 10:52 pm Link to this comment
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oops…

one little problem with this whole charade…

UPS has no planes/service to/fro Yemen.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/10/29/airports_suspicious_packages_yemen_threat/index.html

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By omop, October 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment

Seems no one wants to give credit where credit is due or is afraid of being
called antisem….

From all indications the only one who knew the addresses of the synagogues in
Chicago is Adam Gadahn the grandson of former Anti-Defamation League
board member Carl K. Pearlman.

According to AP.

Associated Press

CAIRO — A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida on Saturday urged Muslims
living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a
duty and an obligation.

In a 48-minute video posted on militant websites, Adam Gadahn directed his
appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the “miserable suburbs” of
Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those traveling to the West to study or
work.

“It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and
Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of
jihad … by striking the Zio-Crusader interests,” he said, referring to Western
and Jewish interests.

Gadahn, who has been hunted by the FBI since 2004, also sought to discredit
attempts by moderate Muslim leaders to suppress the “jihadi awakening.”

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By Escape ameriKa, October 30, 2010 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment
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ameriKans are idiots:

without fail before EVERY so-called “election”...

there pops the bin bogeyman (eventhough it’s France he’s warning this time from beyond the grave on an mp3 recording) and hightened terror alert weasel.

C’mon, wake up. 

There is not fixing any of this,  revolution will never happen with all these emasculated amerikan masses.  Let the uSSa go for broke and self destruct, just get out of the way.

Imagine you’re in Germany in 1929 with a knowledge of what’s coming…

what do you do?

stay… or get the F…  out and get your family to safety !?!?

well, you’re in ‘meriKa today…

why are you still in that hell hole?

the jobs ain’t never coming back and the camps soon to open.

Stay out of north America, Middle East, Europe, Australia. 

get rid of all your US$ now ! (and Euros or Yens…  Think Yuan and Ruble and, mostly, Swiss Francs or best, actual physical gold)

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By Blackspeare, October 30, 2010 at 11:44 am Link to this comment

FiftyGigs….referring to the DSM——I’m impressed or did you see it on your shrink’s desk??!!

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By morristhewise, October 30, 2010 at 11:41 am Link to this comment

It is obvious that these packages were sent out to get media attention not to
murder innocent Chicago Rabbi`s.  As much as a Rabbi needs donations he would
not open one from Yemen even if it came tied with a gold ribbon. One ultra
suspicious Rabbi had a sign posted on his mailbox which reads: Forward All
Packages To Bomb Squad.

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By Blackspeare, October 30, 2010 at 11:26 am Link to this comment

I should also explain that these false flag operations can be accomplished without the knowledge of the sitting regime.  The CIA/NSA has huge amounts of street money that can buy lots of “things” yes even al Qaeda involvement without the slightest possibility of it being traced and then there’s plausible deniability.  Thought what is interesting is that every election seems to have it’s obligatory surprise terror act.

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By FiftyGigs, October 30, 2010 at 11:22 am Link to this comment

Man, some of you have been hitting the bong a little heavy lately, proving that if you go loony enough, nobody can possibly contradict you.

“obviously a false flag operation”—obviously. Bin Laden is a fictional character, after all.

“multiple agendas”—and yet none elucidated. (p.s. don’t bother)

“terrorists are getting sneaker”—and simpler. really sneaky.

“harmless”—surely the passengers agree.

“this will backfire on Barry”—the great and powerful, or the weak and timid? I forget.

“I suspect they are burying it at the moment”—no doubt.

“only two ways they could know”—yeah, Arabs can’t spell Goggle.

“grateful Jewish voters”—of course, they lose the clever progressive vote, but then they’ll probably come out ahead on that.


Okay. Time for my contribution:

* preoccupied with unsupported doubts about friends or associates (i.e. neighbors who work for the government)

* suspicious; unfounded suspicions; believes others are plotting against him/her (i.e. ya know)

* perceives attacks on his/her reputation that are not clear to others, and is quick to counterattack (i.e. this)

* maintains unfounded suspicions regarding the fidelity of a spouse or significant other (i.e. a President)

* reads negative meanings into innocuous remarks (i.e. blog comments)

* reluctant to confide in others due to a fear that information may be used against him/her (i.e. okay, I didn’t want to include this one)

Symptoms for paranoid personality disorder by the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”. Fourth edition.

Don’t pick up the third accidentally.

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By Blackspeare, October 30, 2010 at 10:55 am Link to this comment

Let me see——Saudi Arabia alerts the US authorities about potential bombs heading to Jew Temples in Chicago and knows the tracking numbers??!!  This is obviously a false flag operation with multiple agendas and with the help of the Saudis for obvious reasons.  It an election eve surprise. it makes Saudi Arabia look good and the DHS even better, it makes Yemen look bad and Yemen al Qaeda even worse.  Now if al Qaeda in Yemen were going to do this they would send the material to confidants in the US and let them make the bomb——geez you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one!!!

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By PatrickHenry, October 30, 2010 at 10:46 am Link to this comment

Those terrorists are getting sneaker, time to spend another trillion dollars.

Al Qaeda under your bed and in your junk mail.

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By Antonio Zighelboim, October 30, 2010 at 9:04 am Link to this comment
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The saddest hing is that all this BS “terrorist attacks” do work.
How incredibly ridiculous US politics have become!

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By omop, October 30, 2010 at 8:47 am Link to this comment

morristhewise are you implying that the packages were addressed to : ANY
SYNAGOGUE IN CHICAGO?

Doz guys are real sneaky and think alike de guys on Madison Ave.

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By morristhewise, October 30, 2010 at 8:36 am Link to this comment

Sending dozens of boxes from Yemen to Synagogues in Chicago is similar to a
barking dog that does not bite, it makes a lot of noise but is harmless. Whoever
sent those packages knew that they would easily be intercepted and given
worldwide publicity.  The senders received a million dollars worth of publicity for
the cost of a few dollars in postage stamps. It is obvious that they were not
interested in harming Jews but only making noise.

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By Druthers, October 30, 2010 at 4:10 am Link to this comment

Finger prints? Dogs sniffing for explosives?  It looks as though posters do as good a job from a distance as our “skilled” security services.
Generally the Mossad is not so clumsy, so this perhaps is a homegrown idea.
“In ? we trust.”

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By wtc7_IsABadWord, October 30, 2010 at 3:26 am Link to this comment

The first terrorist attack was found to be nothing, meanwhile the media got ramped up for the “real” terrorist attack.
You can bet if Obama’s presenting the evidence then they have rock solid-ish evidence. These pre-planned events are actually the most transparent:
the media responds immediately
the president presents the evidence
the whole event co-insides with other various political events, elections, laws, etc..
every tv station, radio host etc.. all on the same subject

you will actually hear overly stupid people (fashion & pop culture enthusiasts) parrot this crap with real concern

It’s effective that’s why they do it. If you still aren’t convinced that they do it, then that is your business.

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By Maani, October 30, 2010 at 12:15 am Link to this comment

Actually, even if this is not some sort of “election surprise,” it is neither surprising nor unexpected. If you have been following the news for the past year or so (the news that’s NOT front page or election-related), you will know that Yemen has been #1 on the U.S. “hit” parade for well over a year (Iran has been the “cover” for this).  Indeed, don’t take my word for it; do a little research for yourself on “little” news stories about Yemen over the past year or so, including “secret” U.S. incursions there.  Just as the “al Qaeda” bogeyman was (cynically and propagandistically) tied to Iraq to help justify unprovoked, pre-emptive regime change there, you will now be hearing ALOT about “AQAP” (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), as we morph AQ once again into the universal bogeyman.

It is amazingly transparent if you actually follow the news.

Peace.  (??)

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By Leefeller, October 29, 2010 at 9:23 pm Link to this comment

It must be a conspiracy!

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By Steve E, October 29, 2010 at 9:08 pm Link to this comment

Theatrics and orchestration are key to any election. It’s amazing how many people
suspect dirty election tricks in this scenario. I feel this will backfire on Barry and
Company and I definitely would not put it past the sorcerers apprentice to try and
pull one off. This could very well be the product of a lot of flailing and desperation
on the part of certain members of the Democratic cabal. Watch for very few details
about the packaging. The Jewish connection is a pathetic touch. I fighter escort is
a nice touch.

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By morristhewise, October 29, 2010 at 8:49 pm Link to this comment

My Rabbi loves gifts and most of all those that come tied with a fancy ribbon. But
since the bomb scare I told him as much as he is tempted never open up one from
Yemen.

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By rbrooks, October 29, 2010 at 8:46 pm Link to this comment
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/us/29spill.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw

Hey, look over here! PACKAGES! with BOMBS! from YEMEN!

Halliburton knew the cement was defective? was that before or after they bought Boots and Coots, YEMEN! BOMBS! a week before the “accident”?  boring, nothing to see here, move on.

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By cruxpuppy, October 29, 2010 at 8:17 pm Link to this comment

It is said he is intelligent, and he is advised by many intelligence agencies. A massive counter terrorism infrastructure has grown up at a cost of many billions, a vast, secret, make work program for the intelligent and paranoid, and this is all there is, a couple of mail bombs and a promise of bigger and better to be thwarted in the future? There must be great frustration within the secret infrastructure, a debilitating knowledge of futility and impotence, and herein lies the true peril. The left hand will oblige with another 911, or close facsimile, and the right hand will gesticulate righteously, and all will be well again. The national security state will breath a great sigh of relief.

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By Marc Schlee, October 29, 2010 at 8:07 pm Link to this comment
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Is it election season already?

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By eir, October 29, 2010 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment

Oh yes, Mob Banker, Alexi Giannoulias?  Convicted felon now serving time, Tony Rezko’s banker, Giannoulias? 

Sounds like an another honest Chicago Pol to me.

According to the Ulsterman blog, Chicago is either going to take down Obama, or the Democratic party after November 2nd. 

From The Whitehouse Insider series at Ulsterman’s blog:
“Just tell me about this scandal.  (Leans back, folds arms across chest.  Looks outside – then back to me) Ok then – I’ll point your nose in the right direction.  Enough people are sniffing in the same garbage pile anyways, including the Times.  Though I suspect they are burying it at the moment, or trying to.  They are still heavily invested in Obama, but that may change soon… Go back to Chicago.  That is the key.  There is other crap around the White House, other things that could trip them up, but Chicago is where the real heavy deal is that could bring the administration down.  Go back and review Blagojevich.  Go back and review Rezko, Barton, Stern,  Giordano, Carothers, Jarret.  It’s one and the same. It’s all connected, and it’s big.  And people know.  The White House is -expletive- itself over this stuff.  Pelosi has it. Clintons have it – more of it than they had in 2008.”

Read more: President Obama is Lost, Absolutely Lost

No wonder we should all be afraid, very afraid of those convenient terrorists aka the oligarchy’s bestest friends.

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By rbrooks, October 29, 2010 at 7:55 pm Link to this comment
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Wow, this is a lot more interesting than the story that came out today, you know, the one about the fact that Halliburton knew that their cement was defective and went ahead and used it to plug the Deepwater Horizon anyway…. We wouldn’t want people to put that story together with the story about how Halliburton bought Boots and Coots a week before the “accident,” would we? Or with the one about the astounding disaster capitalism profits Halliburton has racked up (not) cleaning up the Gulf?
Hey, look over here! Here’s a big yummy terrorism story for you yammering heads to yipper about. Nothing to see here. Move along.

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By omop, October 29, 2010 at 7:24 pm Link to this comment

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A nation of barefooted illiterates have mailing addresses of synagogues in
Chicago and other cities poses the following dilemma.

There are only two ways they could know where to mail the stuff\ 

  A. They must have access to the AT&T yellow pages and can read and write
English.

  Or

  B. All the info was provided by a Zionist Patsy named Adam Gadahn Calls For Terror
Attacks In Multiple Cities

The Intelhub October 24, 2010

Editors Note: Adam Gadahn, the grandson of former Anti-Defamation League
board member Carl K. Pearlman, is a complete patsy, trained by rogue
elements of the Mossad to help further the fraudulent war on terror. The ADL
was caught spying on the United States in 1993 and openly works for the
interests of Zionist Israel.

Sadly, most people refuse to do the little research that it takes to realize that
this is no conspiracy theory. Our government funded/created Al Qaeda. This is
open knowledge that cannot be debunked.

Associated Press

CAIRO — A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida on Saturday urged Muslims
living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a
duty and an obligation.

In a 48-minute video posted on militant websites, Adam Gadahn directed his
appeal to Muslim immigrants in what he called the “miserable suburbs” of
Paris, London and Detroit, as well as those traveling to the West to study or
work.

“It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and
Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of
jihad … by striking the Zio-Crusader interests,” he said, referring to Western
and Jewish interests.

Gadahn, who has been hunted by the FBI since 2004, also sought to discredit
attempts by moderate Muslim leaders to suppress the “jihadi awakening.”

Whether its A or B whoever was responsible must not have known that any
“package” mailed from Yemen to a synagogue in Chicago, USA would not
arouse any suspicion.

Those Al Queda guys are real jokers hey?

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By morristhewise, October 29, 2010 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment

Obama saved the Chicago Jews from a Yemeni bomb, they should show their
gratitude by voting for Giannoulias. He is a Democrat from Illinois who is running
for the former senate seat of Obama. The polls shoe that Giannoulias is down 6
points, but that can be overcome by grateful Jewish voters.

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By Aaron Ortiz, October 29, 2010 at 6:49 pm Link to this comment

The Guardian was less kind to Obama, or at least, Wajid Shamsul Hasan:

http://goo.gl/bJZZ

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By Robespierre115, October 29, 2010 at 6:36 pm Link to this comment

What a sad media circus and what a sad media clown we have for President. It feels more like 2004 than 2010.

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By eir, October 29, 2010 at 6:19 pm Link to this comment

Election Surprise?

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By Miko, October 29, 2010 at 6:08 pm Link to this comment
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What a surprise… a “suspicious” “terrorist” “threat”
right before an election.  Yeah, they’ve never tried to
pull that one before.  Yet more proof that Obama =
Bush.

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By rollzone, October 29, 2010 at 6:01 pm Link to this comment

hello. how very Presidential he must feel, with
elections around the corner, and NoSuchAgency is
uncovering or funding or instigating or….let me be
clear about only wanting to be President, to play
golf and take tax payer vacations around the world-
there is no mission statement, there is no agenda. we
are just winging it. Air Force 1 baby. will he cancel
upcoming ‘escape the results’ dust-settling trips out
of the continent to Indonesia, if we are struck next
week? or zoom back? is an attack on us his last
strategic hope? or will he just lame away golfing as
a caricature failure?

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