What raised the suspicion of the two packages sent from Yemen to Chicago area synagogues? The fact that they were "packages" being sent from an Arab country with known terrorists to an American Jewish house of worship? Or did anyone know what was in each package? Why would such a thing be sent from there to there? It might raise less suspicions if it were the other way the other way around. No? Unless we had inside information there's no way of knowing or finding out. All I have is logic, my logic, western logic.
It seems like an enormous effort to do what the bomb planners proposed to do even if it meant the target was air cargo shipping. Not a lot of bang for the buck if one or two planes explode. Still the possibility that it would expose known holes in security of cargo transport is an area to be investigated. Shipping would have been disrupted but not entirely damaged. Intelligence services since 9/11/2001 have been focused on passenger planes since that time and the cargo shipments have largely been ignored. So it would mean doubling up now on air cargo. What about ships? Trains? Was it only because air shipments are more convenient for this kind of plan?
There is much that doesn't seem to add up. None of us should be satisfied that the reasoning behind this hasn't been fully understood. The front pages of newspapers should be demanding answers. Or maybe we shouldn't and intelligence forces are figuring it out now. My initital thoughts were that this was an operation designed to examine how the machinery of response operated once the packages were discovered and if a bomb went off in the process so much the better. I have yet to be disabused of that.
Apparently a previously held Guantanamo detainee whispered in someone's ear.
ReplyDeleteNow they are saying there was a dry run in September. One package with some stuff in it that was not a bomb was sent to a Chicago address, so the points could be tracked. Either these people are stupid or the intelligence services are bullshitting us. If this were a TV show no one would watch it because it was so predictable if that is the case. Wait it is a TV show!!