Farouk
Mutallab: Passenger Haskell’s Testimony - Not A Big
Skirmish
20 January 2010By Aisha Umar Yusuf
Kurt Haskell, an American lawyer, was returning from a
Safari in Uganda with his wife Lori when they boarded
NWA Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Friday
December 25th 2009. Earlier they were seated somewhere
near the boarding gate when Umar Farouk Mutallab, the
alleged Christmas Day airline bomber approached the
boarding gate with an unidentified man.
In an interview with MLive.com, the online edition of
Detroit Metro Times, Haskell who practices law along
with his wife in their firm, Haskell Law Firm in
Taylor Michigan, said while Muttallab was poorly
dressed, his companion was dressed in an expensive
suit. He added that the suited man asked ticket agents
whether Muttallab could board the plane without a
passport. According to Haskell, the well-dressed man
said to the ticket agent, ‘We do this all the time’.
In her response, the ticket agent simply referred
Muttallab and his companion to her superiors down the
hall.
After this, Haskell had no idea what happened next nor
did he see Farouk Muttallab again until he allegedly
tried to detonate an explosive on the plane. According
to him, it was soon after the pilot had announced that
they were landing in Detroit in 10 minutes when he
heard some commotion on the plane. In his words ‘I
stood up and walked a couple of feet to get a closer
look and that’s when I saw the flames.’
Kurt Haskell, who had earlier posted his personal
account of the incident on the internet before being
interviewed by Detroit Metro Times actually sent a
picture of his boarding pass to the paper to prove he
was really on that plane. He described the moment
Mutallab was being arrested, ‘He did not fight back at
all. This wasn’t a big skirmish. A couple of guys
jumped on him and hauled him away.’ Afterwards the
pilot announced’ emergency landing’ but it was not
until Farouk Mutallab was being led out of the plane
in handcuffs that Mr. Haskell recognised him as the
man whose companion wanted to get on the plane without
a passport. There was however no sign of his companion
at that moment.
What this passenger’s testimony proves is that there
are many unanswered questions regarding Farouk
Muttalab’s alleged attempt to blow up an airline in
mid-air just before landing. The most obvious question
is: Who was that well-dressed man who wanted to get
him on the plane without a passport? Why did he lie
that Farouk was from Sudan? On what authority was he
speaking when he said ‘We do this all the time?’Why
was Farouk Muttallab poorly dressed? What king of ID
card was his companion carrying that he could make
such an outrageous demand of wishing to get someone on
an international flight without a passport without
raising an alarm? Even more importantly why was Farouk
himself not talking? A young man who spent years
studying in England can not possibly have problem
speaking English.
Another passenger , David Schike whose own testimony
was published in The Nation of January 2, 2010 alluded
to Farouk’s lack of speech and resistance when he said
‘ I remember staring at him for long periods of time.
I could very clearly see his face. He never moved, he
never turned his head, he never spoke a word or moved
his lips. He never struggled. He never stopped anybody
from pouring water on him. His expression was
completely emotionless.’ Page 6, The Nation.
The picture that emerges after these two testimonies
is of a young man totally unaware of what is going on
around him. For sure a failed bomber with burning
pants will shout with pain, if not for the pain of
burning, then for the failed attempt to achieve his
murderous martyrdom. But no one saw any such thing
because Farouk was too drugged, quite beyond pain or
emotion to behave naturally in the circumstances. My
personal take on this is that Farouk was abducted and
drugged, made to look like a Sudanese refugee, put on
the plane by someone with an Identity authoritative
enough to have got him on board without a passport,
set on fire by this same guy who left his seat early
enough to make sure the fire extinguishers were
activated. The plane was never meant to be brought
down. The real perpetrators of this incident only
wanted to pursue their hidden hideous agenda that they
had to stage it this way.
What about the Al-Qaida connection? You may wish to
ask. Well the following story will let you know just
how Al-Qaida came in. In October 2004, American
aeronautics engineer Paul M Johnson was kidnapped in
Iraq. The statement of claim was published on a
website namedwww.ansarnet.com. It said a group called
‘Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsular’ was the
perpetrator of the act. The statement looked every
inch a genuine claim, it read thus ‘Our fighters of
the Fallujah Brigade, in the Arabian Peninsular have
kidnapped an American, a Christian, Paul Marshall
Johnson Jr., born in 1955 and working as aeronautics
engineer. .... He will be treated the same way US
troops have treated Iraqi prisoners.’ Mr Johnson was
subsequently murdered and the act was recorded in the
media – and in history- as an Al-Qaida terrorist act.
But another American took more than a passing interest
in the claim. Jack Blood, a renowned internet radio
journalist decided to embark on a domain search for
the claimants website www.ansarnet.com. His findings
were interesting, the website was traced to an
internet and a physical address in Dallas USA.
Inspired by the interesting nature of this expose, the
late Joe Vialls wrote an article he called ‘Anyone can
set up a website anyone can send anonymous emails’.
The main thrust of his argument was that such website
claims must never but trusted because they could have
emanated from anywhere. In other words, there was no
way of proving that they were genuine or false, unless
someone was willing to do the painstaking domain
search investigation undertaken by Jack Blood.
Interestingly, it is this same Al-Qaida in the Arabian
Peninsular, which has proved to be a pen-name for a
Dallas-based organisation that is claiming credit for
Farouk Mutallab’s alleged botched attempt. The lesson
in all this is we have to be discerning viewers and
listeners especially of international news these days.
It hurts to hear otherwise discerning commentators
busy regurgitating everything they hear on CNN or BBC
World because they have no reason to doubt them. I
thought after all we heard about non-existent Weapons
of Mass Destruction and many other lies since then we
have sufficient reason not to believe what these
so-called international media have to say every time.
But with Farouk Mutallab, no one even wants to doubt,
everyone simply takes it for granted that he did it.
Since this incident no one even saw it fit to show him
to us even on his hospital bed, and even the Nigerian
diplomats telling us that they had access to him are
yet to tell anyone what they saw. Yet on the strength
of a website claim almost everyone seems ready to
accept the attempted bombing as a Gospel truth, why.
Surely, after all that’s been said about the false
suicide hi-jack theory of 9/11, we have learnt enough
to know that Americans and their allies can stage
anything and sacrifice any lives if they believe the
end justifies the means. Already Farouk Mutallab’s
alleged terrorism has proved most convenient towards a
number of incidents both foreign and local regarding
the United States.
President Obama has promised to close down Guantanamo
Bay’s Camp Delta, where hundreds of young Muslim men
had been in detention since 2001 on charges of
terrorism. His decision met with stiff opposition even
from among his fellow democrats when it was debated
sometime last year. Obama struck a middle ground when
he began to release the detainees n batches later in
the year. Now with his war time rhetoric since the
Mutallab incident, all thoughts of closing Guantanamo
must have been chased clear out of Obama’s head.
Parts of the American PATRIOTS Act, a series of
measures imposed on Americans after 9/11 which,
according to journalist Grant Lawrence reduced US to a
‘technological police state’ were due to expire on New
Years eve, and the new administration didn’t seem keen
to renew them. Now, with the Muttallab incident you
know any plans not to renew them will have to be
suspended. Another convenience theory is that Saudi
Arabia has been bombarding Yemen for some months with
fighter jets, the US itself has sent cruise missiles
into Yemen ostensibly to hit so-called Al-Qaida sites,
but the American public is so war-weary that it is
even questioning why the Obama administration is still
doing in Afghanistan. With the alleged Christmas day
terror attempt, any move by the US to openly attack
Yemen will not be resisted.
Indeed there are such plans to invade Yemen, if
Senator Joe Lieberman is to be believed. Again
according to Grant Lawrence, Lieberman actually said
on Fox News that ‘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 PRE-EMPTIVELY (my emphasis) Yemen will be
tomorrow’s war.’
And we have all seen the result of America’s
pre-emptive wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus we
also know that both were attacked on the strength of
two Big Lies, the Septembet 11th hoax and the pursuit
of non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction. With this
antecedents why would they stage an attempt to blow an
airline using a drugged young man whose circumstances
favour the plot? Call me a conspiracy theorist, call
me a denial brigade commander, one thing I have no
doubt in is that there is more to Farouk Mutallab’s
terrorism than we are led to believe. In the light of
passenger’ Haskell’s testimony, we have every reason
to believe that Farouk is entirely innocent of all he
is accused of and that the whole thing was a
false-flag operation staged to achieve America’s
hegemonistic agenda and a full return to the war on
terror. The young man only fell victim of this evil
plot because his father had gone to the wrong people
to seek help. May Allah aid him to prove his
innocence, and may He protect the rest of us, who are
all potential victims of America’s lies, in pursuit of
a phantom terror network that we all know has never
existed.
--
Ibraheem Dooba
Room 181, Helang
Kolej Kedua
Faculty of Educational Studies
Department of Educational Psychology
University Putra Malaysia
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