Underwear Patsy Appears in al-Qaeda Video

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 27, 2010

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the bedazzled underwear non-bomber, has debuted in an al-Qaeda video. The cartoonish video of black-clad Muslims running around in the desert firing Kalashnikovs is intended to underscore Abdulmutallab’s assertion — according to the FBI — that “others like me” are ready to wage holy war against the United States.

On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdulmutallab set his underwear on fire aboard a Northwest Airlines plane carrying 290 people from Amsterdam to Detroit. The corporate media immediately assumed the foiled attack was linked to al-Qaeda and has labored to make that connection ever since.

Detroit lawyer Kurt Haskell, who was on the flight and witnessed the attack, has maintained that he saw a well-dressed Indian man aid the accused bomber as he boarded the plane despite the fact that he had no passport and was on a terror watch list.

Undersecretary for management at the State Department, Patrick F. Kennedy, told Congress in February that the State Department wanted to keep Abdulmutallab out of the country but intelligence agencies insisted he be allowed in.

British officials knew Abdulmutallab was “reaching out” to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London. Officials said the 23-year-old Nigerian was “starting out on a journey” in Britain that culminated in his attempt to bring down flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day, according to the Australian.

The corporate media portrayed Abdulmutallab as a former president of the Islamic Society at University College London where he advertised speakers including political figures, human rights lawyers and former Guantánamo detainees.

U.S. born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki allegedly sent Abdulmutallab to Yemen for training prior to his underwear stunt. “In tracing the path of Abdulmutallab, intelligence officials say he apparently attended a sermon at the [London] Finsbury Park Mosque in the fall of 2006 or 2007. He went to listen to the man who would become his mentor and perhaps his al-Qaida recruiter: Awlaki,” NPR reported in February.

Awlaki also appears in the video. He is marked for assassination by the U.S. government.

A large number of patsies and dupes were connected to the Finsbury Park Mosque, including the doltish shoe bomber, Richard Reid, supposed 7/7 suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, Nizar Trabelsi, Zacarias Moussaoui, Feroz Abbasi, and others. The Finsbury Park Mosque also served as a center for the the Islamic Army of Aden, said to be an al-Qaeda affiliate.