The "terrorist attack" has false flag written all over it

One would think that all the measures taken by governments to ensure airport safety would have had at least some effect, but as the Christmas day bombing illustrates, rigid airport security clearly isn't the way to go to combat terrorism. With help from the inside, all security measures will prove to be fruitless.

Yet, after every new terrorist attack, we can bet that we'll be introduced to more outrageous security measures that in no way has proven effectiveness. While security personnel treat the average traveler with a nail clipper or a bottle of water as a potential terrorist, real threats are ignored to such a degree that one starts to wonder if there is more to it than just plain stupidity.

Instead of media discussing how to further limit our freedoms by introducing more invasive security technology, such as full body scanners, they should be analysing how the "terrorist" could have been granted a visa in the first place.

[D]isturbing questions swirled about how the suspect was able to get on the U.S.-bound plane with a one-way ticket, a bomb in his pants and a questionable background. Abdulmutallab has been on a watch list by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center for two years, an official said. There are 550,000 people with suspected ties to terrorism on the list. Relatives in Nigeria said the suspect's father - a prominent banker - was stunned his son was allowed to fly to the U.S. The father alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria months ago that his son had developed "extreme religious views" and had disappeared, the Nigerian newspaper This Day reported. (Daily News)

Most travellers are well aware of the fact that one can't travel on a one-way ticket to the US unless one is a citizen. Yet, this young Nigerian man, who was on a terror watch list and of "questionable background" was granted both a visa and to travel with a one way-ticket. How hard is it to check if someone is on a watch list before granting them a visa? That should pretty much be the first step in the process. And if Al Qaeda had really provided him with training and a bomb, couldn't they also have bought him a two-way ticket?

Abdulmutallab's communication with his family had stopped while he was studying abroad. Before that, he had not shown signs of extremist views.

The disappearance and cessation of communication which got his mother and father concerned to report to the security agencies are completely out of character and a very recent development as before then, from very early childhood, Farouk, to the best of parental monitoring, had never shown any attitude, conduct or association that would give concern. As soon as concern arose, very recently, his parents, reported it and sought help. (The Sun News)

Why did this man all of the sudden cut of communication with his family and join Al Qaeda when he had a very promising future ahead of himself?

Furthermore, eyewitness Kurt Haskell states that a young man he could later confirm was suspected terrorist Abdulmutallab was able to board the airplane without even holding a passport, aided by an East Indian looking man in a suit. The East Indian man claimed that the Nigerian was a Sudanese refugee as an explanation as to why he was lacking a passport.

Shouldn't we be looking into who the well-dressed man accompanying Abdulmutallab is? What's to say that Abdulmutallab even had the device when he walked though the security check? The bomb could just as well have belonged to the Indian man.

Below is a video from CNN:

What I would like media to address are these inconsistencies and to scrutinize claims made by the government. Is really Al Qaeda to be blamed for this? The evidence so far is a video from Yemen with an alleged terrorist who happened to die a few days later as well as a "confession" from Abdulmutallab.

It will be interesting to see if the media does their job or if we'll just end up with more propaganda on how full body scans can prevent terrorist attacks and aren't deemed to compromise integrity like before, or about how it's necessary to expand the war on terror...perhaps to Yemen.

All this, while the real criminals run free and criticism is silenced.

The government hasn't failed us, they have fooled us...many times.