CIA as Anti - "Crime Stoppers"

The whole situation with the Christmas airplane bomber does not make sense. A single young male from a Muslim country buying a one-way ticket for cash, flying without any luggage and carrying explosives with him "slips" through the secirity cracks. Mind you, his name is on the terror suspects' list which the airlines "forgot" to check, and his Dad personally went to the US Embassy in Nigeria to report his son as a terror threat. Pardon me for not buying the story. It definitely smells fishy like someone was deliberately looking the other way on multiple occasions. Experience - including my experience reading crime fiction and watching court TV - teaches me that when facts do not fit the story, the story is wrong.

A more likely scenario is that our government which has been trumpeting the end of the recession - which, obviously, is not ending - needs to somehow explain to the public the fact that things are not improving. They need a scapegoat to blame. Terrorism worked beautifully for them in September of 2001, and they rightfully concluded that it would work again. Only this time they did not dare - nor did they need to - to stage a full-scale attack. I suppose that people who valiantly fought the would-be attacker were planted on the plane to make sure this is exactly what happened. The effect is reached: no tragedy, but the public is jolted again with the "terror threat", Joe Liberman encourages us to start a pre-emptive war on Yemen (and on to Iran, no doubt), and any economic troubles can be written off to those new war expenditures which will be handsomely split among the insiders of the military-industrial complex. The public will be convinced that if not for the damned terrorists, we would have been out of the recession by now.

If you accept that scenario, then all of a sudden all the dots are connected into a picture which makes sense. But it is not a pretty picture, no doubt about that.

Anyway, this is not the point I am trying to get at. The biggest point I am trying to make is that by revealing the fact that the father of the "terrorist" went to the US authorities to warn them of his son's radical intentions, and by revealing the name of the father, our own intelligence service has committed a grave crime. A crime against its own citizens. There is little doubt that the father will eventually be killed. And all the relatives of would-be-terrorists saw the writing on the wall: if you want to prevent аn attack on Americans and report your terrorist relatives to the CIA, the CIA will do absolutely nothing about the attacks, but they will publish your name in every news outlet in the world.

The picture at the top should include a disclosure in small print: "But if you DO reveal your identity, we will be sure to make the whole world aware of it. Crime Stoppers Beware!"

This is a much more serious breach of our intelligence security than an irrelevant revelation of the name of some obscure Valerie Plame, which was politically made into such a big deal. Her life was never threatened, and she was not involved in a project protecting some vital and immediate interests of the United States.

The Nigerian banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallah is a true hero who the US has betrayed. Time to check the allegiances of the people who work for our CIA.