How Did The Underwear Bomber Get On Flight 253?

February 3, 2010
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Washington –The State Department didn’t revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.

Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab’s visa wasn’t taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would’ve foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.

“Revocation action would’ve disclosed what they were doing,” Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, “rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort.”

Contunue Reading … (Source: The Detroit News 1/27/2010)

(update 2/6/2012 The Detroit News memory-holed their own article above)

Eye witness and passenger Kurt Haskill has his theory:

THE SHARP DRESSED MAN WHO AIDED MUTALLAB ONTO FLIGHT 253 WAS A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENT.

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2 Responses to How Did The Underwear Bomber Get On Flight 253?

  1. avatar
    Chuck Moe on February 5, 2010 at 3:52 am

    There's definitely something fishy about all this

    • avatar
      Rod on February 5, 2010 at 5:56 am

      They always seem to have someone involved.

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