False Flag Watch for May 2012 and looking down the road for the medium term...fwiw - pov material .

Lest one thinks these things aren't  constantly in progress .....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRLINE_PLOT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-07-18-39-31

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday.

The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.

The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.

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The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It's not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber.

White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said President Barack Obama learned about the plot in April and was assured the device posed no threat to the public.

"The president thanks all intelligence and counterterrorism professionals involved for their outstanding work and for serving with the extraordinary skill and commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand," Hayden said.

The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no al-Qaida plots against the U.S. around the anniversary of bin Laden's death. The operation was carried out over the past few weeks, officials said.

"We have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the anniversary of bin Laden's death," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on April 26.

On May 1, the Department of Homeland Security said, "We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the U.S. tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death."

The White House did not explain those statements Monday.

The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the existence of the bomb late Monday, but there were no immediate plans to adjust security procedures at airports. Other officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss details of the plot, many of which the U.S. has not officially acknowledged.

"The device never presented a threat to public safety, and the U.S. government is working closely with international partners to address associated concerns with the device," the FBI said in a statement.

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/07/may-memo-top-ten-false-flag-terror-targets/

MAY MEMO: Top Ten False Flag Terror Targets

Chicago is the world's most likely false flag terror target in 2012.

By Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop CO

The most endangered false flag targets in the world are:

#1: CHICAGO is mobilizing and militarizing in preparation for the May 20-21 NATO Summit, which it will host. Just after the selection of Illinois senator Obama as the 44th president, MAJ Fox, Dr. Fetzer and I coauthored  “Black Bush” Barack: False Flag Frankenstein? The title was considered harsh at the time, but reality has been much harsher. Obama has expanded both the global war and the homeland apparatus. His former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is both the son of a Jewish Irgun terrorist and an Israeli war veteran — and is now the mayor of the Windy City.

#2: LONDON is also mobilizing and militarizing.as the host of the 2012 Summer Olympics, which the world will be watching. It’s an unrivaled stage for a false flag performance, and hardly a day goes by without a story about a new Muslim terrorist threat to the games.

#3: HOUSTON is the Big Oil capital, and is the center of many petrochemical explosions that have occurred during terrorism exercises, driven up oil prices and resulted in record profit. Dirtiest and deadliest of all is Texas City, called “Toxic City” by savvy locals, a BP town in Ron Paul’s congressional district.

#4: MUMBAI wouldn’t be a surprising terror target, considering  that its commuter trains were hit by multiple blasts on 7/11 in 2006, the day before Israel invaded Lebanon. It was a sequel to the 7/7 London bus bombings in  2005, which was a sequel to the 3/11 Madrid train bombings in 2004  On the same 7/11, hours after the attack on Mumbai, there was a terrifying train incident in Chicago. Commuters there thought that they were under attack, and I suspect that they very nearly were. Meanwhile in Houston the Bush family and its retainers were conveniently gathered in Houston for Ken Lay’s funeral. It was a scene taken from The Godfather, and when my Bush administration chum, Ambassador Chase Untermeyer, arrived in the Bayou City and invited me to dinner I declined.

Ground zero: Portland, Williamette River, Steel Bridge.

#5: PORTLAND was the scene of a Michael Chertoff bomb scare in 2007, and of a “Christmas Tree Bomber” scare in 2010. The Powers That Be have neither forgotten nor forgiven the city they dubbed “Little Beirut” for embarrassing Poppy Bush (41) with rowdy protests. Add to that the fact that in 2005 Portland became the only U.S. city to withdraw from the Joint Terrorism Task Force and it’s clear why its Steel Bridge on the Williamette River was ground zero for a 10 kiloton nuke in the Harvard study, released on April 19, 2007, The Day After: Action in the 24 Hours Following a Nuclear Blast in an American City. Three months later nuclear terror exercise Noble Resolve was playing the scenario out.

#6: PARIS would be a fine target for luring France into more North Africa interventions a la Libya. France’s North African aspirations go back all the way to Napoleon Bonaparte’s late 18th Century campaign, and were formally accepted by the United Kingdom in the Sykes-Picot Agreement

#7: USS ENTERPRISE,

#8: SAN ANTONIO,

#9: BERLIN,

#10: LAS VEGAS,

I submit this list of the top false flag targets to both official investigators and concerned citizen, and I’m ready and able to respond to official or media inquiries. It is the product of my many years in Army Intelligence, coupled with my last eight years of counter-terror analysis and operations. In 2003 I formed Ghost Troop, a cyber militia unit, from a collection of geopolitical and geostrategic experts, who have been either members or associates. Based on the results they have demonstrated and documented, a list of which is at the end of this article, I believe that they comprise the world’s finest intelligence cell. Among these, my colleagues and cohorts, I can proudly name: