Incompetence, Amnesia or Both? AP Reporters Continue To Write About Underwear Bomber Despite Glaring Inconsistencies

The Intel Hub
By Tony Muga
February 14, 2012

‘Selective amnesia’s the story…’ ~ from the song ‘Hangar 18′ by Megadeth.

On the Fox TV show ‘Fringe’, FBI agents are constantly seen dealing with the super-unknown: time warps, doppelgangers, men-in-black, parallel worlds and the like. Is one of these strange phenomena beginning to manifest itself in our reality?

Are parallel worlds beginning to overlap as we plunge deeper into the year 2012?

One might argue that within the offices of the Associated Press, and indeed many mainstream media outlets, writers are experiencing the ‘parallel-world-overlap-effect’ that dominates the aforementioned program. Are two different worlds, two different histories, vying for supremacy? To anyone reading from both mainstream and alternative media it would, more often than not, seem so.

With the AP’s latest update on Umar Abdulmutallab, affectionately known as the ‘Underwear Bomber’, it is painfully apparent that the mainstream and alternative media are promoting two different versions. But who’s version is right?

According to the AP on Christmas Day of 2009, Umar Abdulmutallab, a 24-year-old student and son of a Nigerian banker, boarded a passenger jet bound for Detroit in Amsterdam with a bomb hidden in his underwear. The bomb proved to be a dud and Umar was taken into custody and treated for burns to his groin. Later, Umar fires his court appointed attorney, decides he will represent himself in court and pleads guilty.

Another AP article claims that Abdulmutallab had ties with prominent Al-Qaida figure Al-Awlaki: “The government says they first communicated through text message and eventually spent days together plotting to destroy a U.S.-bound jetliner. Prosecutors say the details were disclosed by Abdulmutallab during his talks with the FBI in 2010.”

On Thursday, February 16th, 2012 the 23-year-old Nigerian will return to court for sentencing.

Now enter Michigan Attorney Kurt Haskell and his wife Lori, also passengers of flight 253, and enter the Alternative media: both tell a startlingly different story than that of the AP.

Mr. Haskell insists that he initially witnessed the underwear bomber being denied opportunity to board the jet. Later, he claims a man in a tan suit, with an American accent, overrode security and walked Abdulmutallab on the plane.

According to Activistpost.com, Mr. Haskell “…has nothing to gain from pointing his finger at the Federal Government. He witnessed the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, being whisked past security and led onto NorthWest Airlines flight 253, by a well-dressed man with an American accent- all without the passenger’s proper visa and passport documentation.

What the news piece [Detroit news article] doesn’t mention is that the State Dept did indeed put Mutallab on the plane, at the behest of ‘an unnamed US intelligence agency.’ Undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy (Detroit news article removed from web!)”

Kurt Haskell’s testimony has remained consistent from the beginning and yet neither the prosecution nor the defense seems to have any interest in it. The AP even claims that ‘Four or five passengers, just a slice of the nearly 300 people who were aboard Flight 187 [253], are expected to speak at the court hearing this week.’ and yet Mr. Haskell is NOT one of them.

Who decided that his testimony is irrelevant? Shouldn’t he be the first one to be questioned on the stand? Why isn’t this being covered by the AP? Did they simply forget to mention it? Did they not consider this important?

Another important piece of information the February, 13th AP article neglected to mention is the fact that the underwear bomber initially plead not guilty. In a strange turn of events that left many scratching their head, he changed his plea to guilty in October of 2011 and insisted he would represent himself in court.

The way the AP article is worded leaves one thinking there was only one plea and it was a guilty one: “Abdulmutallab is returning to court for his sentence Thursday, four months after he pleaded guilty to trying to destroy an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas 2009.”

Finally, there is no mention of the infamous Fox News report that stated Anwar al-Awlaki “…was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks…”.

Instead we are simply told that Abdulmutallab and Awlaki had connections and the story ends there.

This is particularly disturbing because if Kurt Haskell is correct in that this was a staged event, Awlaki is the likely mastermind with appropriate ties to both the Pentagon, the bomber and man in the tan suit (the bomber’s handler from ‘an unnamed US intelligence agency’). Shouldn’t this be investigated and reported on by serious journalists?

As the famous character Morpheus from the movie ‘The Matrix’ once asked: ‘What is real?’

Sometimes it is difficult if not impossible to know what a certain reality is. What we know for certain, in this particular case, is that two different stories of the events of that fateful Christmas day in 2009 exist in the public domain. The AP’s version and the alternative media’s version.

Who are you going to believe?

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