The increasingly bizarre (and odoriferous) saga of the would-be exploding underpants bomber

[marmar]

from the Guardian UK:


A would-be "underwear bomber" involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.

The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.

The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10 days, had caused alarm throughout the US.

It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday, one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/09/underwear-bomber-working-for-cia

[gratuitous]

1. You know, part of the change I voted for back in 2008

Part of the change I was hoping for in 2008 was a break with the fear-mongering practiced by the previous administration. This little episode seems designed to take some of the focus off our crimes against humanity (summary executions in Yemen), and the zeal with which the popular media have taken this new "threat" recalls echoes of the worst days during Bush the Stupider's Reign of Error.

[randome]

3. Or it could have been a terrorist attack that was prevented.

I mean who can say?

Since we will never know the truth because none of us were present when it all happened, why assume the worst?

[pmorlan1]

5. Why assume the worst?

lol It's called experience. Our government has been creating terrorist plots and then solving the plots they themselves created. It's so blatant and yet people still believe their claims.

[bighart]

6. Brilliant summary.

I could not agree more.

[marmar]

2. AM Kick.

nt

[HiPointDem]

4. Sometimes i think they push this stuff to determine how much we'll swallow. "Yeah, call it an

'underwear bomb,' see if they'll go for that!"