Philip K Dickhead's Journal: Pakistani Patsy

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Portrait of a patsy

It would be ridiculously easy to set up Faisal Shahzad. New American, a little on the make, with family in Pakistan and big financial problems. Friendly government agent approaches him and appeals to his patriotism and love of adventure, plus offers to pay well (note the history). First mission: infiltrate a 'terrorist' training camp in Pakistan (little does Shahzad know that the camp is really run by the CIA). Second mission: buy a cheap used car on Craigslist. Third mission: buy some fireworks. Fourth mission: stay at home awaiting further instructions. Shahzad, seeing his car on TV, suddenly got that Lee Harvey Oswald feeling, and decided it might be better to get out of the country before he died in a shoot-out.

Despite a gazillion cameras and CCTVs in Times Square, there is not the slightest evidence that Shahzad was actually there with the car. Complete absence of forensics in the car points to a government job. Strangely enough, so does the utter incompetence of the bomb - even without any training, Shahzad could have done better - and the fact that the bomb was modelled after the incompetent car bomb at Edinburgh (which Shahzad couldn't have known to copy - we're supposed to believe it came out of training at the same incompetent bomb-making school in Pakistan!).

They say he's talking, but who knows. They have him in a tough spot, liable to be labeled an 'enemy combatant' with the loss of all rights, and friendly authorities in Pakistan have his family in custody for further blackmail. Patsies always find themselves in a position where there is no way out.

I suspect the 'no fly list' problem is phony, intended by American authorities as a way of forcing recalcitrant airlines to get in line. The entire story of his capture is hinky, from the alleged fact that the FBI somehow 'lost' him, to the entire buried story of American Army involvement (whatever happened to posse comitatus?). Gawker investigated the changed story, and the attempt at an innocent excuse is ridiculous (and note the drone reference at the end of the Gawker article: drone blowback against the American people is particularly ironic given illegal American drone killings in Pakistan).

at 5/06/2010 09:05:00 AM

Bombers can be ncredibly stupid

[tomhudson]

When we had them blowing up mailboxes here, they were REALLY dumb. In one case, they drove around for a week with the bomb while trying to figure out where to set it off, and it's a wonder they didn't take themselves out. "Terrorist bombers" are really cowards. And usually really stupid. REAL "agents" would go after infrastructure, not crowds of people. The water you drink, the air you breathe, the food you eat, the electricity you use.

Imagine if you were afraid to use your .... oops - I feel a great stor

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Set up a "dud" that let's you draw the noose a little tighter...

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[countertrolling]

It's better than that. It provokes the victim to draw the noose tighter on himself. I guess a sufficiently drawn noose will provide infinite security in a certain manner. We are not being murdered. We are committing suicide.

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[Philip K Dickhead]

This was done by Western "Intelligence" - maybe with ISI involvement.

There is no "them". It's all us. With fake terror attacks and setup fools. Terrorism does not exist - only local resistance to Global domination.

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[chill]

The water you drink, the air you breathe, the food you eat, the electricity you use.

While a favorite plot of Hollywood, comic books and popular fiction, this is MUCH, MUCH harder than most people realize. The idea of poisoning the water supply of a city is laughable, once you realize the volumes involved. For a 2nd-tier city that gets water via a lake or river you'd need something like a dozen railroad tanker cars of high poison to do more than just make a bunch of people moderately ill.

Ditto with the food. Worst case you can get some contamination at a plant and get a couple hundred pe