Intelligence Sources: 
Plane Incident a False Flag Involving Trinity of CIA, Mossad, and RAW 


by Wayne Madsen 

Global Research , January 11, 2010 
Wayne Madsen Report - 2010-01-04 





The Christmas Day attempt by the son of a prominent Nigerian banker and 
business tycoon connected closely to top Nigerian leaders to detonate a 
chemical improvised explosive device aboard Delta Airlines flight 253 from 
Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was a false flag operation carried out by the 
intelligence tripartite grouping of the CIA, Mossad, and India's Research 
and Analysis Wing (RAW), according to WMR's Asian intelligence sources who 
closely monitor the activities of the three agencies in India and Southeast 
Asia. 

The tripartite alliance of the CIA, Mossad, and RAW were behind the 
terrorist attacks on Mumbai earlier last year and on December 28 Rupee News 
reported the three agencies worked together, along with former Afghan KHAD 
intelligence agents, to assassinate former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir 
Bhutto: "The Benazir assassination was pre-planned and executed via 
triangulation by KHAD, RAW, CIA and Mossad using the most modern radioactive 
weapons available in the market. The Israeli PM publicly admitted helping 
India in Kargil recently. The purpose of the covert KHAD, RAW, CIA, Mossad 
operations is to destabilize Pakistan. The IMF plan to de-fang Pakistan in 
2000 did not work, but provincial autonomy will make the center bankrupt 
triggering an implosion." 

The outcome of the failed terrorist attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab on 
the Detroit-bound plane has resulted in major Christmas gifts for the 
neocons and militarists who still call the shots on U.S. policy: the 
deployment of privacy-invasive millimeter wave (MMW) full body scanning 
equipment at airports in North America and Europe. The ranking member of the 
House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Peter King (R-NY), who is 
an ardent defender of the Catholic Church and its prelates in Ireland, has 
defended the scanning system which can image the naked bodies of passengers, 
including children and babies, an increase in the U.S. military and 
intelligence presence in Yemen, retention of US USAPATRIOT Act surveillance 
provisions, an increase in racial profiling of Arabs and Muslims -- and 
because Mutallab is African -- blacks in the United States, and more 
cumbersome travel restrictions for airline passengers. 

The neocon propagandists are already spinning counterclaims to reports that 
indicate that Mutallab was a witting accomplice of a larger plot cooked up 
by American, Israeli, ajd Indian intelligence agents to carry out yet 
another false flag terror operation on American soil. The eyewitness 
testimonies of Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell and his attorney wife Lori 
Haskell are being pilloried by the corporate media after the two were 
featured on major U.S. television networks. Haskell and his wife witnessed a 
"well-dressed Indian man" arrange for Mutallab to board Delta 253 without a 
passport at the check-in desk at Schiphol. 

Haskell told CBS News: "Only the Indian man spoke, and what he said was, 
this man needs to board the plane, and he doesn't have a passport. And the 
ticket agent then responded saying you need a passport to board the plane, 
and the Indian man then said he's from Sudan. We do this all the time." 

WMR has learned that the Indian man is suspected by Asian intelligence 
services of being a RAW agent who used his influence to convince airline and 
airport security personnel that Mutallab was a bona fide Sudanese refugee. 
Mutallab reportedly spent several hours in a Schiphol airport lounge before 
boarding the Delta flight. Dutch agents are reportedly scanning Schiphol 
CCTV footage and have reason to believe that Mutallab had accomplices at the 
airport, which bolsters the witness accounts of the Haskells. The FBI has 
interviewed the Haskells and the bureau, as is its modus operandi, appears 
to be intimidating witnesses and pressuring them to support the government's 
party line. 

The neocon spin machine is also refuting reports that Mutallab traveled to 
the United States without a passport and that his ticket was only one-way. 
The facts emerging are that Mutallab was not traveling on a Nigerian 
passport but on an Italian passport. Mutallab's father, Alhaji Umaru 
Mutallab, happens to hold the Italian Order of Merit. In addition, Mutallab's 
ticket was purchased in Accra, Ghana, with $2,831 in cash and was later 
re-issued, on December 16, with a different itinerary at the KLM office in 
Lagos. The original itinerary was Lagos-Amsterdam-Detroit-Amsterdam-Accra 
but the return leg on January 8, 2010, was changed from Amsterdam to Lagos 
instead of Accra. 

Previously, WMR reported that the security company that cleared Mutallab in 
Schiphol is ICTS, a firm that is headquartered in Israel and Amstelveen, 
Netherlands. The firm also cleared attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid for a 
Miami-bound American Airlines flight from Paris in December 2001. Reid, who 
was bound for Antigua, was profiled after he purchased his ticket at a 
travel agency in the 18th arrondissement in Paris. Reid had previously 
traveled to Turkey, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, the Netherlands, Belgium and 
France and he obtained pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a component of 
the explosive Semtex, and his specially designed shoes in Amsterdam. Reid 
was linked by French authorities to French convert to Islam Jerome 
Courtailler, who, in 2004, was sentenced in absentia by a Dutch court to six 
years for plotting to attack U.S. targets in Belgium and France. Mutallab's 
undershorts also contained PETN. 

There is a possibility that Mutallab was recruited to carry out a false flag 
attack after another one failed on November 13. A Somali man was arrested at 
Mogadishu airport with the same chemicals, powder, and syringe combination 
that Mutallab used to ignite his clothing. The Somali man was attempting to 
board a Daallo Airlines flight from Mogadishu to Hargeisa, the capital of 
Somaliland, Djibouti, and Dubai. Daallo is the national flag carrier of 
Djibouti and is owned by Dubai World's Istithmar World Aviation (IWA) 
Holdings. Dubai World's recent financial woes sent shock waves through the 
global financial community. It is also noteworthy that Delta 253 passenger 
Jasper Schuringa, the young man who wrestled Mutallab to the ground and 
prevented him from carrying out his terrorist mission, was driven to 
Schiphol on Christmas morning by his friend Chris Van Amersfoort. Van 
Amersfoort's Facebook page lists himself as a "fan of" Dubai World's owner 
"His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum," the Emir of Dubai. 

Daallo Airlines has an interline agreement with a single U.S. airline, which 
happens to be Delta Airlines, the same airline that saw Mutallab 
successfully board its flight 253 in Schiphol. It has similar agreements 
with other airlines that fly to the United States, including Qatar Airways, 
Saudia, Ethiopian Airlines, and Alitalia. 

Schuringa's father works for Shell and, in 1993, they were evacuated by the 
French foreign Legion from Gabon during riots by demonstrators opposed to 
the tainted re-election of Gabon's presidential dictator Omar Bongo. The 
Curacao-born Jasper Schuringa attended film school in Miami and he also 
lived in Oman. After accusations in the media that he was publicizing 
himself over the Muttalab incident, Schuringa largely receded from public 
view. Schuringa was en route to Costa Rica via Detroit to visit his sister. 
The National Counter-terrorism office in The Hague is being mum about any 
connections it had with Schuringa, according to the Dutch paper Parool. 

On October 18, a little less than a month prior to the attempt by the 
syringe- and chemical-armed Somali to board the Daallo Airlines flight from 
Mogadishu, Shaykh Muqtaar Abu Zubeyr, the leader of Somalia's radical Al 
Shahab Islamic Movement, warned Somalis in leaflets distributed in Mogadoshu's 
Bakaraha market and other points in the city not to fly on Daallo Airlines, 
Somalia's largest carrier, because he said the airline had "close ties" with 
the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, the United States and the 
"Jewish government" of Israel. 

Before moving from Egypt, Mutallab was in an MBA course in Dubai at the time 
of the Daallo warning. Mutallab later dropped out of school in Dubai. 

Mutallab's father, Umaru, the retired chairman of First Bank of Nigeria 
(FBN), is among the top elite of Nigeria, counting among his friends the top 
royalty of northern Nigeria, including the Emir of Gombe, the Emir of 
Zazzau, and the Sultan of Sokoto, as well as Nigerian President Umaru Musa 
Yar' Adua, who has been recovering from a mysterious illness in Saudi 
Arabia. Mutallab's empire included FBN (UK), which its president described 
as "the very first UK bank owned by a Nigerian bank and could be counted as 
an equal to other UK banks." Mutalan was also a contender to be President of 
the National Council of the Nigeria Stock Exchange. In 2003, Mutallab formed 
Nigeria's first Islamic bank, Jaiz International Bank. 

The same bureaucratic stovepiping issues used by the U.S. intelligence and 
law enforcement communities to explain away the lack of intelligence on the 
9/11 attacks are at play with the Delta 253 incident. Of course, all these 
problems were to have been solved by the creation of the Department of 
Homeland Security and the Directorate of National Intelligence. Mutallab was 
entered as a terrorist suspect in the Terrorist Identities Datamart 
Environment (TIDE) database of 500,000 names maintained by the director of 
National Intelligence's National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC) but not on 
the "no fly" list maintained by the Transportation Security 
Administration(TSA). 

On November 19, just six days after the Somali attempted to board the plane 
in Mogadishu with a syringe and chemicals, the elder Mutallab met with the 
CIA Station Chief at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. 
Mutallab told the CIA official that he was concerned about the 
radicalization of his son, who was called "Alfa" -- a term for an Islamic 
scholar -- while attending the British International School in Lome, Togo. 
The elder Mutallab was quite emphatic that his son posed a significant 
security risk. 

After dropping out of the MBA program in Dubai, the younger Mutallab turned 
off his cell phone and destroyed the phone's SIM card before leaving Dubai 
for Yemen where it is said he wished to improve his Arabic. It is not known 
who bought Mutallab's ticket to Detroit in Accra and why the return 
destination was changed from Accra to Lagos. Mutallab's multiple entry visa 
for the United States was issued on June 16, 2008, with an expiration date 
of June 16, 2010. 

In response to the elder Mutallab's warning, the U.S. embassy in Abuja sent 
a Visa Viper cable to the State Department and NCTC on November 20. However, 
Mutallab's name was not added to the no-fly list. The State Department is 
refusing to disclose the classification of Mutallab's visa and State 
Department spokesman Ian Kelly is refusing to reveal information on Mutallab's 
visa application. 

The Daily Trust of Abuja penned the following editorial in the aftermath of 
the flight 253 incident: "The story caused anxiety among regular air 
travellers, not only for the safety of planes, but also for the kind of 
reception that Nigerian travellers to Europe and the US, especially Muslim 
ones, are likely to get in the next months and years. The story also excited 
Northern Nigeria's many conspiracy theorists, who think another grand 
Western plot is in the offing to tarnish the image of Muslims, possibly as a 
prelude to another invasion." The editorial added, "Among officials of 
Nigeria's embattled Federal Government, though, the story caused a mix of 
anxiety and relief. Anxiety, because it threatens to throw this country's 
fitful Rebranding Campaign into further chaos. But it provided welcome 
relief from endless newspaper commentaries on President Yar'adua's health." 

The Nigerians are obviously suspicious also about those behind the attempt 
on the aircraft. The Abuja editorial continues: "Bringing down a plane is 
not a thought that comes easily to people in Northern Nigeria. Most people 
here, with me as a typical example, cannot breathe easily in a plane until 
it hits the tarmac. A man who holds fast to a plane's aluminium frame for 
support during a turbulent take-off hardly can think of bombing it. This 
explosive substance that Faruk allegedly used in the Delta Airlines plane, 
pentaerythritol or PETN, may be known to British school kids, but I have 
never heard of it. To think that I once taught in a university's Faculty of 
Science. If indeed Faruk told the Americans that he was an Al-Qaeda 
operative, then he was a very poor one, to be frank. His bomb, which he said 
he got in Yemen, was weak [exploding like a fire cracker] and technically 
deficient [failed to go off properly]. He was easily subdued by a film 
producer, did not struggle when he was grabbed, did not say anything when 
they held him, and almost as soon as he reached the FBI station, he began to 
sing like a canary. Sounds very much like the gentle British lad that he 
is." 



Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and 
nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the 
Wayne Madsen Report 

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