How did Abdul Mutallab get on the plane? Video
The SOS and I were talking about this, and then my son brought my attention to this article … and I had completely forgotten about a piece of sound I meant to play earlier in the week and never got around to it.
On Tuesday Fox News interviewed Kurt Haskell, a Michigan Attorney, who was on NW Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Haskell has claimed on his blog for days that a “sharp dressed man” helped Abdul Mutallab get on the plane, without a passport, or at least, checking his passport.
For the last five days I have been reporting my story of the so called “sharp dressed man.” For those of you who haven’t read my account, itinvolves a sharp dressed “Indian man” attempting to talk a ticket agent into letting a supposed “Sudanese refugee” (The terrorist) onto flight 253 without a passport. I have never had any idea how it played out except to note that the so called “Sudanese reefugee” later boarded my flight and attempted to blow it up and kill me. At no time did my story involve, or even find important whether the terrorist actually had a passport. The importance of my story was and always will be, the attempt with an accomplice (apparently succesful) of a terrorist with all sorts of prior terrorist warning signs to skirt the normal passport boarding procedures in Amsterdam. By the way, Amsterdam security did come out the other day and admit that the terrorist did not have to “Go through normal passport checking procedures”.
Here’s the video from Tuesday:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1Ae4wM85Y
But this is just part of the story. Haskell also claims the FBI detained a second passneger from the flight, although authorities are claiming, the man detained was not from Flight 253. Haskell fires back.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKqI0NTgZo
Here’s what he says on his blog.
However, a few hours later, Customs changed its story again. This time, Mr. Ron Smith of Customs, says the man that was detained “had been taken into custody, but today tells the news the person was a passenger on a different flight.” Mr. Ron Smith, you are playing the American public for a fool. Lets take a look at how plausible this story is (After you’ve already changed it twice). For the story to be true, you have to believe, that:
1. FBI/Customs let passengers from another flight co-mingle with the passengers of flight 253 while the most important investigation in 8 years was pending. I have already stated that not one person who wasn’t a passenger or law enforcement personnal was in our area the entire time we were detained by Customs.
2. FBI/Customs while detaining the flight 253 passengers in perhaps the most important investigation since the last terrorist attack, and despite not letting any flight 253 passenger drink, eat, make a call, or use the bathroom, let those of other flights trample through the area and possibly contaminate evidence.
Haskell, an attorney, makes a compelling case of reasoning. The FBI has reportedly interviewed him and his family. But remember, we are relying on eyewitness accounts during a very stressful moment. Still, Haskell has not wavered and we deserve a full explanation, not to mention investigation by authorities.
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As I recall, Nixon's downfall was the cover-up! No one seems to want to follow up on this story which leads me to believe there is something of value here. Keep diggin'. Happy New Year Jim!
I'm going to chime in here in the comments and suggest Haskell should have immediately told the FBI and authorities what he saw and STFU.
Haskell immediately started blogging about his experiences and demanded authorities answer his questions and prove him wrong. Haskell and many others on the plane are good sources of intelligence to help investigators figure out what happened on the plane and in Amsterdam. Too bad Haskell gave them a total of about 24 hours to figure out everything and answer all of his questions.
If there was a sharped-dressed man – and I don't doubt there may have been one – I'm certain he appreciates Haskell's detailed reporting, insight and the heads up.
It's bad enough that the terrorist got on the plane, but we do not need "conspiracy" theories to further cloud the issue. I believe that our intelligence operatives can determine what went on w/o Mr. Haskell's piling on.
if you read the African news they have all of the details of the guy's passport. I am not saying that the african press is better, but it can't be much worse than ours. I think that Haskell is just coming out and saying that what he witnessed is not what is being reported in the US. IMO he should tell everyone what he saw.
If the terrorist got on the plane w/o a passport how did we find out "immediately" who he was and where he came from? Did he have a business card on his person when he was jumped on?
From what I understand Sammy … ticket, manifest, visa.
You're kidding, aren't you? If the guy did not have a passport, how would one know he had a visa? Or by elimination they found that he (without ID) was the person not accounted for on the manifest or on the boarding pass he kept for frequent miles or a ticket he kept (just in case)?