Officials Admit Second Man Detained As More Witnesses Emerge

Two more eyewitnesses contradict FBI’s denial that Abdulmutallab had possible accomplices

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have
admitted that a second man possibly carrying explosives was detained
after last week’s aborted plane bombing attack, contradicting
initial statements by the FBI that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the
only person arrested or charged in relation to Friday’s foiled
attack.

As we reported yesterday, attorney and Flight 253
eyewitness Kurt Haskell said that he saw a well-dressed Indian man aid
the accused bomber to board the plane despite the fact that he had no
passport and was on a terror watch list. After the incident, while the
passengers were being detained, Haskell witnessed an Indian man being
handcuffed and led away after a bomb-sniffing dog had flagged up his
luggage. The FBI then removed the other passengers from the area,
strongly indicating that explosive materials had been found in the
man’s bag.

Officials have now been forced to acknowledge that a
second man was detained despite initial FBI denials after two more
witnesses came forward to validate Haskell’s account.

“Daniel Huisinga of Fairview, Tenn., who was
returning from an internship in Kenya for the holidays, says he also
saw a man being taken away in handcuffs at the airport after a dog
search. A third person, Roey Rosenblith, told The Huffington Post on Sunday that he saw a man in a suit being placed into handcuffs and escorted out, as well,” reports Michigan Live.

“Huisinga talked about seeing a man taken away at
the airport during an interview Monday on MSNBC. He mentions it at
about the 1:25 mark of the video below. The reporter appears to confuse
Huisinga’s account with a man who was detained on a separate
flight Sunday and deemed not to be a threat.”

Huisinga later told Michigan Live that the Indian man
who was later detained by the FBI after dogs had detected something
suspicious in his baggage was “wearing a nice suit,”
raising questions as to whether this was the same man who helped
Abdulmutallab board the plane. Huisinga was located about 20 feet from
where the man was handcuffed.

Huisinga shared Haskell’s view that the
passengers were moved because more explosives had been discovered,
adding that agents told the passengers that they could not use their
cell phones or computers. “We were kind of left to draw our own
conclusions,” he said.

“It is unknown why the person was detained or
whether the person will face any charges,” U.S. Customs and
Border Protection spokesman Ron Smith told MLive.com.

The FBI is still denying that a second person was
detained in relation to the incident, raising suspicions as to whether
the well-dressed Indian man is being protected by the authorities and
for what reason.

“There’s a lot of stories out there,
whether any of them are accurate or not, or they’re a little bit
accurate and blown out of proportion,” FBI spokesman Bill Carter
said. “But I’m not aware of anyone charged or arrested
other than Abdulmutallab.”

MLive.com writers attempted to contact the U.S.
Department of Justice for clarification, but their calls have not been
returned.