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Not a Dry Run

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Killgore Trout9/02/2010 9:37:58 am PDT

Pajamas Media goes Truther…..
If the “corrected” story is true, wouldn’t we be having these kinds of terror alerts every day?


To believe this newer DHS version of events, then you must believe that a billion-dollar homeland security machine working in concert with the nation’s counterterrorism field agents — including the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Federal Air Marshal Service — neglected to first determine from United Airlines that United Airlines was responsible for the key suspicious act.

You must believe that United Airlines was responsible for sending at least one of the men’s bags on a Yemen-bound flight, while sending the two Yemen-bound travelers on a totally different flight to a totally different continent that would ultimately wind up in Yemen anyway.

If this were true, wouldn’t we be having these kinds of terror alerts every day?

Who hasn’t had their luggage wind up in a different city in the past decade? Are we to believe that when the terror-threat alarm bells first rang regarding United Airlines Flight 908 sometime on Monday, DHS didn’t notify United Airlines first? If they had, surely the airline would have cleared up the old-fashioned mix-up at once.

But instead, the billion-dollar DHS machine went into overdrive, sending FBI agents into the field, delivering word to federal air marshals on the airplane via the United Airlines pilots, and insisting that the Dutch police handcuff and arrest the men.

All this without determining that United Airlines was to blame for the mix-up first?

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, could it be that the Department of Homeland Security made its most embarrassing mistake in its history? Or was the New York Times used by DHS as a mouthpiece to silence a situation that involves something more?

United won’t talk. TSA won’t talk. DHS talks exclusively to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that the Dutch prosecutor now says that he is “99 percent certain” the two once-DHS terror suspects will likely be freed without charge. Case closed?