In 2008, the ACLU estimated the US 'No Fly List' to have grown to over 1,000,000 names -- heck, even Cat Stevens and the late Senator Ted Kennedy were on it -- and it continues to expand. But, suspected terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was curiously able to obtain military-grade high explosives --80 grams of PETN (Gee, where'd he get that?) -- managed to escape airport security and detonate his underwear bomb!

In April 2009, American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board. Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for Le Monde Diplomatique and has written on revolutionary movements in Cuba and Colombia, figured on the US authorities' 'no-fly list.' Air France said the April 18 flight was forced to divert to the French Caribbean island of Martinique before continuing its journey (telegraph.co.uk).

Got it? Write a book critical of the CIA -- you cannot fly. Carry explosives (allegedly from Yemen) on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for its oil -- yes you can! The US needs false flags to provide cover for illegal invasions and occupations. The 9/11 terrorist attacks (aka inside job, six ways to Sunday) worked well for the US government; the security-industrial complex made billions and US corporaterrorists were able to negotiate the wholesale theft of Iraq's oil.

According to CNN, the terror suspect's father tried to warn authorities. CNN reported: The father of a man suspected in a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria recently with concerns his son was planning something, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday. The father -- identified by a family source as Umaru Abdul Mutallab -- contacted the U.S. Embassy "a few weeks ago" saying his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had "become radicalized," the senior administration official, who is familiar with the case, told CNN.

And yet, Abdulmutallab was not obliged to undergo any additional airport screening layers, prior to boarding for the last leg of his journey to Detroit.

Also, lest we forget: Three key provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire 31 December 2009. Hmm. I wonder if post-Abdulmutallab they will get renewed?

The goal is Yemeni oil. Hence the reason for the destabilization and the purported need for the US to stop al-Qaeda (literally, 'the database'). The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen (Press TV). Translation: US corporaterrorists want Yemen's oil and they want it NOW.

@12, no rebuttal, no point, no nothing. Write something useful to defend yourself or you're basically just proving my point.

If you re-read #6, you'll see he was listing pretty simple facts obtainable by anyone with an internet connection. Until the end, he doesn't leap to any conclusions.

Sure, the conclusions at the end require a leap of logic. It may not be THE answer, but since all we have are hypotheses, there's nothing that makes his argument less valid than your complete lack of an argument, or argument from authority! (...Aside from the Occam's razor argument above. But even Occam's razor requires a leap of faith, and it's misapplied all the time).

So anyway, @12, you're the boring one. And I'd rather be grasping at straws than standing there with my thumb in my ass. You forget that it's the people who actually give a fuck that make this world better. And starting with a hypothesis (as opposed to Paul's immediate acceptance of whatever the news tells him) is how any interesting story breaks. Just because this one's simple doesn't mean they all are.

And Paul, again, you make a dumb post, then disappear. Are you still under the impression that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? Or has the official story been worn down by 'conspiracy theorists' enough that you can retroactively claim their hard work as your own 'free thought?'

It's weird being on the right side of this argument and watching otherwise intelligent people willingly take such a closed minded, almost republican-like, stance on this.

Isn't it better to just say, 'interesting, but not likely.'? Or is it just because these people actually give a damn? Is that what bothers you? So fucking completely devoid of curiosity that you can't stand to see people exercising their own? I'd pity you, but you sound like dicks.