George, "the friend of my friend of the former ex-friend who is friends with by former ex friend's friend is my enemy. " Big DOT George?  THE PENTAGON PLAN TO FOMENT TERRORISM.
 
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/06/us-allies-with-baathists-in-yemen/
 
 
"Hardly a bombing goes by an Iraq that the Iraqi government and American forces don’t blame on the remnants of the Ba’athist regime overthrown in the 2003 invasion. It is constantly alleged that the Ba’athists are secretly in league with al-Qaeda, though evidence for this is always lacking.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh

But now, some of Saddam Hussein’s top spies, having fled to Yemen when America invaded, have found a new and unlikely ally in the United States, which is recruiting them into a rival spy agency within the Yemeni government, created specifically to tackle al-Qaeda.
 
The Ba’athist spy agency was created at the behest of the US, but it likely didn’t take much coaxing of Yemeni President Saleh, a long-time ally of Saddam Hussein who has been known as “little Saddam” himself.
 
Though it is perplexing policy when coupled with repeated official statements against the Ba’athists, it is hardly surprising that the US has once again gone down this road, having eagerly allied with Saddam’s Ba’athist regime before eventually declaring it an enemy and invading. Whether the Saleh government will share the Saddam government’s fate remains to be seen."
 
One last note, the Iraq War has been over, the winner is Iran.
 
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/21/iran/
 
So much for the great political, theoretical, military and intelllectual giants of the US of A.  Retrenching through the former Baathists whom they should have left in power, blinded by greed, hubris, dingbats, go figure.
 
 
 

http://rawstory.com/2009/01/countdown-detroit-bomber-intel-failure-consp...
 
 
Wolffe is a journalist, MSNBC political analyst, and author of the Barack Obama book Renegade: The Making of a President.
Addressing the current focus of the intelligence failure, Wolffe begins, "Was speaking to White House folks earlier today and it's clear the president is still deeply concerned and troubled even angry at the intelligence lapses but they see this more as an intelligence lapse more than as a situation of airport security faults. So the question is why didn't the centralized system of intelligence that was set up after 9/11, why didn't it work? Is it conspiracy or cock up? Is it a case of the agencies having so much rivalry between them that they were more determined to stymy each other or the centralized system rather than the terrorist threat or was it just that there were so many dots no one could connect them because it was just all too random to figure out. It seems that the president is leaning very much towards thinking this was a systemic failure by individuals who maybe had an alternative agenda."
 
The Countdown host returns to the question "Cock up or conspiracy?" "Was there a reason these agencies were at war with each other that prevented that intelligence from being shared? Olbermann then asks the big question of the evening, "Is the implication there that there is at least a possibility that somebody understood how serious this could be and yet withheld information in order to make some other part of the counterterrorism system look bad?"
 
Wolffe responds by bringing up the White House internal inquiry, "That has got to be an area that the White House is looking into and, you know, motives can be hard to assess because it's not clear that this person was easily identified as a terrorist. Even with the father coming forward saying they had concerns, was that more of a family concern or were there enough fingerprints here about the radicalization of this individual to suggest that it should have been taken to a different level - at the very least a security level beyond more than a nominal sharing of information. That's where this inquiry, this internal inquiry, for the moment, has to go."
 
 
"You can defend every airport as much as you like, in the end though the most efficient, safest, border line for security has got to be human intelligence. There seems to have been plenty of human intelligence in this case," he concludes."
 
George, I've read of Congressman and high rollers being on the no-fly list, what about this high roller, the rich Engineering student who can't trigger a detonator?
 
Did you notice how Wollfe tried to water it down?  "It's not clear that this person could have been identified as a terrorists."  LOL George,  I don't know about you but it's very comforting that the agency rivalries (OR WORSE a parallel one) Homeland Security's comforting umbrella was designed to ameliorate continue their lack of coordination unabated on a case screaming for coordination.  It's comforting George, because as this false flag and Sibel Edmond's expose details, there is never any security nor is there any insecurity, it's pure serendipity, chance, bad luck, or poor timing my friend.  Enjoy it George.  It reminds me of what Bobby Knight infamously said about rape, "Relax and enjoy it."
 
"Connie Chung was to interview Knight for a package piece and, according to Metz, came into Assembly Hall cussing and snorting and shooting the breeze with Knight as if she were an old drinking buddy.  Only after she'd make him comfortable, Metz narrates, did Knight drop one of his more notorious rhetorical bombs.  Getting blown out in a basketball game is a lot like rape, Knight said, if the outcome is inevitable, you may as well sit back and enjoy it. "

 
We're getting blown out of the basketball game George! Pandora's box is wide open, the left hand can't always tell what the right is doing.  I might be the double-crosser of the double-double-triple crosser, "get it?"
 
Update #1:
 
As security researcher and analyst Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed wrote in New Internationalist in October: "Islamist terrorism cannot be understood without acknowledging the extent to which its networks are being used by Western military intelligence services, both to control strategic energy resources and to counter their geopolitical rivals. Even now, nearly a decade after 9/11, covert sponsorship of al-Qaeda networks continues."

Networks which Ahmed and other analysts such as Michel Chossudovsky, Peter Dale Scott and Richard Labévière have painstakingly documented, enjoy the closest ties with Western intelligence agencies stretching back decades.

That intelligence officers, including those at the highest levels of the secret state's security apparat, did nothing to hamper an alleged al-Qaeda operative from getting on that plane--in a chilling echo of the 9/11 attacks--calls into question the thin tissue of lies outlined in the official narrative."
 
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6897-0-20-20--.html
 
The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism, Chris Floyd
 
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd1101.html
 
 
 
 

What is there to think of a society, a government, a so-called republic that in decades time has outspent the entire world hundreds of times over over hundreds of years span, and yet have this "security breach?"  Didn't we just budget $300B for next fiscal year's wars?  How many billions more to "contracting," "data mining," spy satellites, to the alphabet agencies like the DoD, CIA, NSA, and the myriad others under Homeland Security? How many billiions spent "off the books" in black ops, from drug smuggling, human trafficking, prostitution, assassination for hire, black mail and other "clandestine activities?"  And yet the sorry M.Frs. couldn't preempt the "terror attempt" by a confused 23 yr old Nigerian, dimed on by his prominent father, to no less than the CIA, months before his attempt!!  A bright, engineering student who somehow couldn't trigger a detonator. 
 
Here's the official government organ on the subject, the NY Times:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31terror.html
 
The father, a wealthy Nigerian businessman named Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, had urgently sought help from American and Nigerian security officials when cellphone text messages from his son revealed that he was in Yemen and had become a fervent radical.
 
A family cousin quoted the father as warning officials from the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency in Nigeria: “Look at the texts he’s sending. He’s a security threat.” (Maybe we should consider hiring the kid's dad as our CIA Chief?)
 
The cousin said: “They promised to look into it. They didn’t take him seriously.”
 
The new details help fill in the portrait of an intelligence breakdown in the months before Mr. Abdulmutallab boarded a plane in Amsterdam with the intent of blowing it up before landing in Detroit.
 
In some ways, the portrait bears a striking resemblance to the failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, despite the billions of dollars spent over the last eight years to improve the intelligence flow and secret communications across the United States’ national security apparatus."
 
My oh my... if this shit ain't a false flag operation, a poorly thought out one at that, than I don't know what is.
 
What is even more appalling, a sign of the US's failed nation status, is that the politicians, our "leaders," aided and abetted by our 4th Estate and our "intellectual establishment" has now deemed "terrorism" a political football to score points with.  Fu**k our security, there are elections out there to win.
 
Why is the media channeling Dick Cheney, of all people?  Here's what the esteemed one had to say about Obama, who has mightily "out-Bushed" GWB in less than 1 yr. in office, not only keeping Bush's "tool chest" in place (torture, rendition, no habeus, targeted assasinations, covert ops) but has escalated conflicts Bush started and migrated conflicts into other nations:
 
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/30/cheney.obama.war/
 
Cheney also said Obama outwardly "pretends we aren't [at war]," and the former vice president repeated his months-long criticism that the new president has made America "less safe."
 
Let's get this straight, "Obama pretends we aren't at war."  You could have damn sure fooled me on that one.  Isn't Obama's war footprint larger than GWB's and Cheney's by all measurable accounts?  Troops, $$, number of conflicts, drone attacks, covert ops?  Where the f***k have I been this past year, or perhaps I've been in a f****n dungeon like Dick Cheney?  I don't know anymore.  Maybe the dungeon is in Cheney's mind and soul, like millions of other Americans?
 
And the rotten media and intelligentsia in this country will carry on this debate ad nauseum.  The Rethugs could give a shit about national security as long as there are elections to win and poll numbers that could use a bump.  These politicians are playing games with our lives, and watch the sheeple fall in line.  "We were safer under Bush/Cheney, the Dems are "weak," blah blah blah.  What a nation of morons, idiots, cowards, and degenerates.  The Rethugs no longer hide their glee and thirst for torturing, rendition, secret prisons, targeted killings, and inhumanity towards Muslims.  These, the same shitholes who bellow on and on about "spreading democracy." The hubris is beyond laughable, it is cancerous and psychotic, the clear sign of a deranged population.
 
Is the United States, like Israel, a failed state?  Does our government actually function better than the Yemeni's?  That's a question that bears consideration. 
 
Perhaps I should rephrase the question.  "Are US citizens "patsies?"  It should be absolutely clear by now that your elected officials and leaders are.  Don't be shocked if a dirty bomb goes off next or an attempt at one, might be all the Empire needs to push you, "us" over the brink.   Better to be prepared than surprised, for all we know the Nigerian student could have stuck a vial of uranium up his ass.   Should have tuned the satellite on has ass like they did Will Smith, ya think? "Actionable Intelligence" what an oxymoron.   Welcome to Bizarro World, the age of the apocalypse, not aquarius.
 
 

 

The long planned war on Yemen
I notice the recent news contains much shouting that Yemen is the "new front" for the war on terror. All thanks to the latest alleged AlQuaeda recruited underwear bomber!

Sigh, First the shoe bomber, now the undie bomber, perhaps next the hat bomber?

Anyway.... getting back to the alleged 'new front' in the war on terror?
This claim is about as realistic as the lies many parents told their children this past week about Santa coming to the house. Ho, Ho, Ho it just ain't so!

Yemen has been a new front for war for this entire past year. All covertly. Up until about two weeks back. But even that didn't appear to brightly on the radar.

The timely underwear bomber made it all possible to speak aloud, that which the US and it's allies have been doing for nearly a year.
Therefore- looking at all the facts. The intent has always been to attack Yemen. The underwear bomber was the propaganda coup needed to justify, to the public, the reason for the already planned attack
 
 
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2009/12/long-planned-war-on-yemen.html
 

The War On Terror is premised on "divide and conquer," toadies, proxies, straw men for straw arguments, perpetual war produced by perpectual non-ending conflicts, unchecked arm sales, and profiteering, of which the US and Israel lead the way.  The "humanitarian-interventionists's" "failed-states," concept is yet another pretext for military conflict and hegemony.
 
If the COO or CFO of Bank of American or Goldman Sachs, or the Assistant Sec. of the Treasury contacted M-15 and Scotland Yard to dime on his kid, how does he get on a plane?  If the CIA knew 2 weeks that this kid was a loose cannon, how did he get on the plane?
 
In a world of predator drones, operated from comfy suburbs, spy satellites that outstrip anything we see tracking down Will Smith,-- if billions of dollars on data bases, body "prints," and "covert operations," can't stop this kid, then (1) explain why, and (2) what are we spending/fighting for? What are we getting for our $$? I want even mention what we're giving up in terms of freedoms.
 
Obama and the latest string of domestic terrorists arrests is starting to appear like GWB's "color-coded" alert system and his own arrests of ner do wells, has-beens, wannabees, and the unstable, AIDED AND ABETTED, TOO OFTEN ENTRAPPED by our "security officials."  As Chris Floyd has written, these "incidents" all too often come at opportune times, opportunity that is, if you are a bloodthirsty warmonger.
 

Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon

Written by Chris Floyd   

Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:29

 
Raimondo breaks down what's happening in Yemen, yet another civil war where American comes to the rescue to save the population from themselves by killing and bombing them.  Obama is as or more reckless than Bush!  Does anyone one to debate that?
 
Next Stop: Yemen
The panty-bomber and US foreign policy
by Justin Raimondo, December 30, 2009
 
 
Senator Joe Lieberman is calling for "preemptive" military action, averring:

"Somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, ‘Iraq was yesterday’s war, Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war.’ That’s the danger we face."
 
Lieberman never met an Islamic nation that he didn’t want to invade and subjugate, but in the case of Yemen, the misdirection such "preemption" would represent for US policy in the region couldn’t be more deceptive. For the real source of irritation to the US, and its Saudi Arabian ally, isn’t al-Qaeda, but Iran.
 
Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war since the mid-1990s, one that has little to do with al-Qaeda and everything to do with the historical and religious currents that have swept over this poverty-stricken nation of some 20 million since the end of World War I. The Ottoman empire once claimed suzerainty over the region, but never succeeded in subduing the northern tribes who maintained their independence through all the days of British domination of the south, and then the imposition of Marxist one-party rule in the name of the southern-dominated "Democratic Republic of Yemen," which was a Soviet ally during the cold war era.
 
The ferociously independent northerners are religiously and ethnically distinct from their fellow countrymen, adhering to a version of Shi’ite Islam, unlike the Sunni majority in the more settled southern provinces. For years the northerners have waged a battle against the central government, under the general rubric of the "Houthi," named after their former leader, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, killed by the regime in 2004. For its part, the central government has been dominated by a central figure, Field Marshal Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled since 1978, when the President of the Yemeni Arab Republic (YAR) was assassinated (some say at the instigation of Saleh). Since that time, Saleh has systematically jailed, killed, or otherwise eliminated any who would oppose him.
 
The Yemeni central government has been none too subtle in its tactics, launching what they themselves called "Operation Scorched Earth" in an effort to defeat the northern rebels. This campaign provoked a refugee exodus from the battlefield in which tens of thousands of displaced persons fled to the south, where they were housed in sprawling camps. Meanwhile, the Saudis were drawn into the conflict, using their air force to bomb and strafe rebel villages, and sending their troops into direct skirmishes with the Houthi. Fearful that the spreading influence of the Houthi Shi’ites would infect their own minority Shi’ite population, particularly in al-Hasa and other oil-producing provinces of the Kingdom, the Saudis are determined to crush the Yemeni insurgency, and have doubtless encouraged their American patrons to get more directly involved.
 
The Saudis and the Yemeni central government have portrayed the Houthis as Iranian pawns, and the conflict has been defined as a proxy war between Tehran and Riyadh – yet the real roots of the civil war are buried in Yemen’s storied past, where the religious and political divisions that currently bedevil the regime in Sana’a, the capital city, have their origin.
 
In addition to the Houthi rebellion in the north, the central government faces a secessionist movement in the south, which has, up until now, largely confined its activities to peaceful protests and demonstrations. Yet the government has treated them in the same way it has confronted the Houthis: with violent repression. Recent demonstrations held by the separatists were met with brute force: eight newspapers were closed by the government for daring to report on the secessionists’ activities.
 
Naturally, the Yemeni government has every interest in portraying the southern secessionists as a conspiracy hatched by al-Qaeda, and the northern rebels as proxies for Iran – and the US is buying into it, big time, with $70 million in US military and "development" aid this year alone, and much more in the pipeline. Now that President Obama has pledged to "use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere where they are plotting attacks against the U.S. homeland," the road is opened to a deepening US presence in that war-torn country, up to and including the large-scale presence of American troops.
 
Change? Far from reversing the policies of the Bush era, President Obama – swept into office by war-weary voters who mistook his opposition to the Iraq war as a general tendency towards non-interventionism – is not only continuing but expanding the American offensive, which is now engulfing Pakistan and spilling over into the Arabian peninsula. As for "al-Qaeda on the Arabian peninsula," this fits right into their plans for a general conflagration in the region, which will set Sunni against Shia, Saudis against Yemenis, and everyone against the United States.
 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – nothing is beyond the scope of American ambitions to dominate the region, and apparently nothing short of a voter rebellion at home will deter Obama from this suicidal course. The war begun by Bush, and continued by Obama, is widening. As the showdown over Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons program proceeds – from draconian sanctions and American sponsorship of terrorist groups in Iranian Balochistan, to a proxy war in Yemen – the stage is being set for a new world war. Al Qaeda is the pretext – but Iran is the target."
 
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/12/29/next-stop-yemen/