So six months before the US election we have another Yemen airplane bomb plot in the news. The fact that the plot was foiled by an insider, according to US officials, raises suspicion about the veracity of the plot. The first underwear bomber in late 2009 was, according to lawyer Kurt Haskell, who sat eight seats behind the Nigerian would-be bomber, escorted onto the plane by a man who appeared to have official authority to over-ride airport security. Radio Four's evening news carried an interview with Michael Chertoff, one of Bush's securocrat contract guys, former head of Homeland security, who benefited handsomely from the post -9/11 war on terror cash mountain. Kurt Haskell is running for Congress now on an anti-corruption ticket - he believes the US government had a hand in the original underwear bomber plot. What are we to believe about the latest claims of the CIA about a new bomb plot? I only wish mainstream journalists would be a little more sceptical about what they are being told. The message that Al Qaeda is still a major threat suits the contract guys and their political representatives very nicely.
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