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Hooray - he saved all of us by cosying up to Al Qaeda and smuggling a bomb in his pants. He's a hero and he works for the CIA!
But how do we know all the other ones weren't working for the CIA? Underbomber I got on the airplane in a strange way according to a witness, Kurt Haskell. The under bomber got on the plane without a passport because an Indian guy in a suit talked him passed the counter saying "we do this all the time". Who gets people onto planes who shouldn't really be on them? Con men, perhaps terrorists - but then surely law enforcement would be interested in this information - or intelligence agencies.
Now, I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the CIA were trying to turn him or run him as a double agent but it didn't work out so well. It's a funny yet dangerous game they often play. And it would be consistent with the fact that a large number of 911 hijackers came on Visas from an embassy that worked as a CIA visa mill. The hijackers learned to fly airplanes at a CIA associated flight school. What were the CIA trying to learn? Was the price worth it? Was the price actually the payoff? Who knows. Either way, they aren't likely to tell you.
But how do we know all the other ones weren't working for the CIA? Underbomber I got on the airplane in a strange way according to a witness, Kurt Haskell. The under bomber got on the plane without a passport because an Indian guy in a suit talked him passed the counter saying "we do this all the time". Who gets people onto planes who shouldn't really be on them? Con men, perhaps terrorists - but then surely law enforcement would be interested in this information - or intelligence agencies.
Now, I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the CIA were trying to turn him or run him as a double agent but it didn't work out so well. It's a funny yet dangerous game they often play. And it would be consistent with the fact that a large number of 911 hijackers came on Visas from an embassy that worked as a CIA visa mill. The hijackers learned to fly airplanes at a CIA associated flight school. What were the CIA trying to learn? Was the price worth it? Was the price actually the payoff? Who knows. Either way, they aren't likely to tell you.
