Detroit Airliner Terror Incident: A Convenience Theory By Grant Lawrence

[Demeter]

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December 30. 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory. Like the one that is coming together out of the botched terror attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner in Detroit just as it was arriving.

For the last couple of months Saudi Arabia has been bombarding Yemen with fighter jets. Just recently the US sent cruise missles into Yemen in a reported attempt to hit Al Qaeda sites. Also, US fighter jets joined the attacks on Yemen. In return, Al Qaeda reportedly issued a warning that it would avenge US raids.

Now it appears that the Detroit bound Airline Terrorist Suspect from Nigeria has supposed links to Yemen. Or at least the suspect is supposedly saying his bomb was made in Yemen.

Well just when America needs a good excuse to attack Yemen, conveniently we have one. Now never mind that we have initiated the US and Saudi attacks before this recent terror attempt. Just keep in mind that the Nigerian is a Yemeni terrorist.

Some are beginning to question how a No Fly list that bans Cat Stevens and a guy that was writing a critical book on the CIA could miss this 'Nigerian/Yemeni' terrorist. Reports are that the terror suspect was on a Watch List and his dad reported to the US Embassy in Nigeria that his son (the future terrorist) was possibly dangerous.

Also some are a bit concerned that this Watch List Detroit Terrorist Bomber was allowed to get on the plane with explosives strapped to his body.

Something smells of a needed convenient incident to help promote the attacks on Yemen and the expansion of our terrorist war there.

As luck would have it, and conveniently, Congresspersons are calling for a needed expansion of the terror wars to include Yemen. One of the clearest voices for a greater expansion of the terror war is coming from the noted corporate sellout (aren't they all?) Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman warns on Fox News,"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."

It appears that, according to Lieberman, the government was already getting ready for an expansion of the War on Terror to include Yemen. But the recent bombings of Yemen by the United States proves that point.

Still there is one other point I want to mention regarding my Convenience Theory of the Nigerian/Yemeni airliner bombing incident.

Parts of the Patriot Act are due to expire this New Years Eve.

Now talk about a real convenience.

Just as controversial aspects of the Patriot Act are expiring, and there is not a lot of political will to extend them, you get a real terrorist attempt with links to Yemen.

How convenient!

At this point we can only say that the attempted terror attack in Detroit appears a bit too convenient. It comes at a convenient time for those in the government that want to extend the War on Terror abroad and the Technological Police State here at home.

So I am not one to see a conspiracy but I am one to see a convenience.

You can call me a Convenience Theorist nut job, but I must call attention to conveniences when I see them.

Grant Lawrence - Visit his blog http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/

[donco6]

1. It makes you go "hmmmm".

Convenient, indeed.

[truedelphi]

2. How is it that seventeen of the nineteen hijackers of 9/11

Were from Saudi Arabia, yet we have yet to hear of any Executive level government official suggest that we carpet bomb Saudi Arabia?

Instead it is always the little third world nations like Iraq and Yemen that we decide to blow apart!

[virgogal]

5. And this guy isn't from Yemen,he's Nigerian. What's your point?

Should we go after Nigeria?

[troubledamerican]

7. That's called missing the spirit of a comment.

[yurbud]

13. FBI docs show Saudi intel agent picked up two hijackers at LAX, put them up in apt. in his bldg...

funneled them money from the Saudi ambassador's wife on a regular basis, and made hundreds of phone calls to the Saudi embassy and consulate until the attacks. And Saudi had a long history of funding Al Qaeda.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/03/foia-doc-shows-911commission-lied-about.html

Is there any chance that we and the Saudis have something else to gain from kicking the shit out of Yemen since we clearly don't care who really backs al Qaeda?

[truedelphi]

18. Great info there Yurbid. Thank U. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

3. If their is a single Muslim in the world that doesn't think the west at war with them all

they are an idiot.

Name one other group we have dropped bombs on in the last eight years that wasn't muslim.

[Rebubula]

16. OK....

...interesting theory.

However, I would posit that everyone is at war with everyone else. No one group is free from the blood of aggression.

Let's look at the Islamic areas of the world.

Pakistan - at war with India for more than 40 years. Almost went nuclear a couple of times
Afghanistan - tribal leaders warring with each other since the inception of warfare
Iran\Iraq - Warring with each other for several decades (yes, yes...much can be attributed to foreign interference)
Sunni-Shia - Been killing each other in gruesome manners since around 632 CE - I am pretty sure the West (or at least the US) did not 'exist' then.


The Middle East was not a peaceful place prior to the West putting their noses (and bombs) where they did not belong.

[Arctic Dave]

17. So it is ok for us to interfere because they were attacking each other?

The bloods and crypts have been killing each others since the seventies, should China bomb LA?

[frog92969]

4. It's obvious

"Our" government let him through and are probably pissed that the bombing failed.

There, I said it.

[Daveparts still]

6. The Plot Wasn't

meant to work only to scare the public. This plot was tried once before to execute a Saudi diplomat. The bomber had explosives stored where the moon don't shine and when he detonated them he blew himself up but no one else was injured. Think about it, if you store explosives between your legs its like sitting on a grenade. Plus the explosive is very difficult to ignite so if you include the shoe bomber this is the third time the same plot has been used without success.

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[winyanstaz]

9. K & R

[skepticscott]

10. What the freak is a "terror attempt"?

When even writers and media outlets that did not start off as drones of the Bush Administration lapse constantly into the annoying habit of substituting "terror" for "terrorist" or "terrorism", I guess there's no hope that we will ever be rid of that little bit of mind control. I count no fewer than 8 instances just in this short column...sheesh!

[Demeter]

11. Their Legal Standing Is Not Even As Strong As Their Grammatical Expertise

We are surrounded by idiots..

[midnight]

12. That does sound convenient.

[libodem]

14. Yes, how convenient

Just when we thought those full body scanners might be languishing in a warehouse. I've also decided that any organization referred to as al Qaeda 'Anywhere' has been named by the CIA, as a psych-ops propaganda tool to use on the American people to justify blowing up civilians everywhere.

[DoBotherMe]

15. Wasn't the "yellowcake" from Nigeria also?

"Fool me once, can't get fooled again." Dana ; )