9/11 Commission Chairman: Plane Bomber “Did Us A Favor”

Thomas Kean celebrates justification for Obama to expand war into Yemen

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, January 4, 2010

9/11 Commission whitewash chief Thomas Kean told CNN
yesterday that the Christmas Day plane bomber “did us a
favor,” by allowing Obama to expand the so-called war on terror
into Yemen, a startling reminder that the highly suspicious Flight 253
attack served to fulfil pre-determined U.S. geopolitical objectives.

“This guy in some respects looking at it in
retrospective probably did us a favor,” Kean told CNN’s
State of the Union Sunday talk show, adding that the attempted attack
shifted the Obama administration’s attention away from health
care and global warming and back to the war on terror.

“We weren’t really focused on Yemen and the
terrible things that are happening there. Now we are and that’s a
good thing,” said Kean.

“The GOP chairman’s quote raised eyebrows;
by his logic, the Sept. 11, 2001 attackers may also have “done us
a favor” by drawing US attention to extremism in
Afghanistan,” writes Raw Story’s John Byrne.

However, Kean’s implication that Yemen was not a
subject of U.S. geopolitical interest before the attempted attack drew
attention to the country is completely at odds with the facts.

A December 24 BBC News report entitled Yemen: New frontier in US ‘war on terror’ revealed
how the U.S. had already invested $70 million dollars over the last
year on expanding the war on terror into Yemen and that “US
intelligence agencies are keeping a closer and closer watch in this
newly-emerging theatre in the “war on terror”.”

A week after the incident, President Obama pinned the
blame for the attack on terrorists based in Yemen despite the fact that
no formal investigation into the bombing had been concluded.

Obama’s statement came one day after
Britain’s PM Gordon Brown called an “emergency
summit” on “extremism” in Yemen. “Gordon Brown
has invited key international partners to a high-level meeting in order
to discuss how best to counter radicalization in Yemen,” a
statement issued by Downing Street announced. “The prime minister
will host the event on 28 January in London.”

The fact that the aborted plane bombing attack provided
the perfect justification to expand U.S. military operations into
Arabian Peninsula in the name of fighting Al-Qaeda makes the suspicious
circumstances surrounding the December 25 incident all the more
alarming.

As we have documented,
The FBI has repeatedly changed its story in a haphazard effort to
accommodate eyewitness testimony from passengers that conflicts with
the official version of events.

At first the FBI denied that a second man was arrested
in connection with the incident but later admitted a second man was
handcuffed after Flight 253 passenger and eyewitness Kurt Haskell said
he saw an Indian man being led away by authorities after sniffer dogs
had found something in his luggage.

Officials then claimed that the man had not been on Flight 253 at all and was not connected with the incident, but had to reverse their statement again just days later when other eyewitnesses emerged, admitting that the man had been on the plane.

The fact that the FBI is apparently protecting
accomplices involved with the bombing attempt, and thereby keeping the
official story within the script necessary to pin the attack on a lone
man from Yemen who was inspired by Al-Qaeda, blatantly suggests that
the facts are being manipulated to fit a pre-conceived geopolitical
agenda.

The attempted bombing has also been exploited to push for a renewal of the unconstitutional Patriot Act, as well as the implementation of invasive naked body scanners in all major airports.

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