Underwear bomber acted alone.

[dgibby]

MSNBC is reporting that Amsterdam authorities state that the underwear bomber acted alone, was not assisted by anyone as asserted by another passenger on the plane.

[zeemike]

1. Why am I not surprised at that?

now show us the tape that confirms that.

[HopeHoops]

2. "Here, can you hold this for me?" --- "PERVERT!"

Sorry, that's the imagery that came to mind in reading the OP.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Yeah, IN the plane.

But who was his supplier?

[tekisui]

12. Whoever supplied him, didn't have the means to properly train him.

Or so it seems. He may have gotten it from a third or fourth party.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Whoever it is, it's somebody who needs to be pursued. -nt

[razorman]

17. Maybe from the "ACME Exploding Underpants Company", like Wile E. Coyote.

[Beetwasher]

4. Bullshit

n/t

[Blue Owl]

5. Then who got him on the plane

Seeing as he didn't have a passport and paid cash for his ticket?

Sounds like another "official story" is being forced down our throats. The M$M is on-script. The fearmongers are on the march.

[madokie]

8. The difference this time though Blue Owl

is we have a real President who is not in the cheney loop and who will find out what is going on once and for all. In the end I suspect that the fingers will be pointing toward our last vp, darth cheney and the man behind the curtain. President O is a smart man and he's got some smart people working for him and none of them want to be cheney whores. We are on the cusp of finding out a whole lot more than a lot of people have any clue about and that is the ties between the bush/cheney white house and the terrorist organizations. One came with the other, your pick as to who the leader is. My pick is the dick is the man in the shadows.

[Gold Metal Flake]

14. Keep hope alive.

[Blue Owl]

21. I sure hope so, madokie

n/t

[Schema Thing]

16. why do you believe the first thing you hear that comports with your own bias?

have a little skepticism - of yourself.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. He had a passport.

The cash for the ticket wasn't in Amsterdam but in Ghana, where it's apparently unremarkable for people to pay in cash.

Talk about fearmongering.

[Warpy]

6. They have a name for anyone who believes that lone nutcase stuff:

"SUCKERS!"

I think he was probably alone in Amsterdam, never left the boarding area, just got waved on. Passenger re checks were never instituted.

He needed someone to run interference for him in Nigeria, though, whether a bribed gate clerk or the "well dressed, Indian appearing man."

[Dr.Phool]

13. I wonder if the "well dressed Indian man" might have been Bobby Jindal?

[WillParkinson]

7. I believe it...

After all, very few people would have the balls to do it...

(OK, sorry, I had to say it)

That out of my system, I find it difficult to believe one person could coordinate all this alone.

[madokie]

10. and it be that one person.

I smell a rat

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Well duh.

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Because only one man and his horse could fit in those underwear

[mikelgb]

19. BULLSHIT:

[damntexdem]

20. Let that be a lesson: try to blow up your own underwear, and you'll always act alone.

;-)

[TexasObserver]

22. How likely is it no one else involved was at the airport with him?

We know he was recruited by someone.

He was convinced by someone else.

His bomb was built by someone else.

His ticket was likely provided by someone else, as were his trip route and the date of his travel.

So, every part of his activity was controlled and directed by others, but we're to believe there no one else was involved at any of the airports or in the flight involved?

I want to see the video of the airport. If there's anything there to see, fine. If there's something there to see, let's see it. Way too early in the process to rule anything out. I don't accept at face value anything any government says early in the reporting after the event.