The Merchants of Fear: Israel’s Profiting from Homeland Insecurity

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/21/the-merchants-of-fear-israel%E2%80%99s-profiting-from-homeland-insecurity/

n the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the answer to America’s airline security problems. Since leaving public office in 2009, Chertoff had co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm whose clients include a manufacturer of body-imaging screening machines. While some in the media noted this rather commonplace conflict of interest, ignored by all was a far more significant abuse of the American public’s trust.

In a CNN interview, Chertoff cited the Detroit incident as “a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery.” One lesson that he hasn’t drawn, however, was about the unreliability of the security firm which allowed the young Nigerian Muslim without a passport to “slip through” Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

ICTS International N.V., the Dutch-based security firm, was established in 1982 by former members of Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, and El Al security. Menachem Atzmon, who holds the controlling shares in the firm, was convicted in 1996 for campaign finance fraud while co-treasurer of the Likud party. The other co-treasurer Ehud Olmert, who was acquitted of those charges, resigned as Israeli Prime Minister in 2008 amid multiple corruption charges.

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About time Kingfisher was put in his place. He needs to start his own website so he can play ruler of the universe. More than one poster has left here due to his rudeness.

Go eat some frogs somewhere else prick.

“Then they’ll raise their hands
Saying ‘we’ll meet all your demands’
But we’ll shout from the bow, ‘your days are numbered’
And like Pharaohs tribe
They’ll be drownded in the tide
And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered”

Keep it simple and validate their worldview, Nafeez!

I am sorry, but you two are beyond help. Mr. Bacon your ramblings are just not kosher with reason and reality. Camus, why don’t you make yourself a Stranger around here.

Al-CIA-duh is not a real thing. It is pretend. It does not exist in reality outside Langley Virginia.

Nafeez, you used to be much more clear. At least that is how I remember it. If the CIA, ISI, Mossad, the Saudis created a list of merceneries under their control, that group could never morph into an indiginous, autonomous radical bunch of renegade jihadists. The only Al-CIA-duh in Yemen are pissed off poor people out to undo all the damage done by the world bank, IMF, big oil etc. and THEY have never called themselves that. We conveniently label any group interested in toppling one of our favored dictators, or squatting to close to resources we covet, as AL-CIA-duh. Lets try to cut through all the bull. Keep it as simple as possible please.

And that he was going to blow up an airliner without using a detonator?

I guess it’s just a coincidence that ICTS, the Israeli owned company that provided security at the Dutch airport is also the same company that provided ‘security’ at the US airports that let the 9/11 al-CIA-duh types board… actually, it was a subsidiary of ICTS, Huntleigh Corp that let the 9/11 hijackers thru.

ICTS also handled security for London’s bus system during their 7-7 “Muslim bombing,” while doing the same at Charles de Gaulle Airport when “shoe bomber” Richard Reid boarded a plane in Paris on Dec. 22, 2001.

And who was the stranger that filmed the Christmas Crotch Bomber all the way thru the incident?

One day, Americans might wake up, but by then, it’s going to be too late. We’ll all be living under the iron boot of tyranny, but only on a ‘temporary’ basis for ‘security.’
Which won’t bother most Americans, since by then, we’ll have been turned into a carbon-copy of Israel, a nation of psychotic, violently out of control mass murderers who kill with impunity.

After all, who will stop us?

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Dr. Ahmed,

Do you know what denial of sanctuary means? Yes, Yemen’s regime probably has or still does provide sanctuary to AQ. And as you describe there is reason as to why they do so: “to re-mobilise the Islamist jihadist networks to consolidate northern control over the south”. The jihadi’s are force multipliers for government forces.

Yemen’s government needs help and gets it from the Jihadi’s. The US needs to deny sanctuary and kill AQ. It is evident that the US is seeking to meet the Yemeni government’s needs by supplying security assistance and force multipliers so it can achieve its goals, in order for the US to deny sanctuary and kill AQ.

This is not to say that this is the right course of action the US should take; that is another discussion. Rather, I consider it a more accurate description of the situation.

KF