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Passenger Reportedly Taped Terror Attack
My Fox Orlando ^ | 12/28/09

Posted on 12/28/2009 2:06:39 PM PST by Frankusa

A Newport Michigan couple, who were on board Northwest Airline flight 253, report that an Indian man tried to get Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on board the plane without a passport. The couple also allege that a different Indian man was arrested after the plane had landed when a bomb sniffing dog detected a bomb in his carry on bag. And, now this:

A Wisconsin family aboard the plane that Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to bomb on Christmas Day said another passenger videotaped the entire flight including the attempted detonation of explosives, local media reports.

Patricia and Charlie Keepman from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin were sitting about 20 rows behind Abdulmutallab on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.

They said another passenger sitting in front of them had videotaped the moment Abdulmutallab set fire to explosives that authorities believe were sewn into his underwear.

"This person actually was videotaping it," Mr Keepman said.

Mrs Keepman told 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News: "He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly."

"We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we've heard nothing about it."

She said her daughter Ricki, one of two children the couple had adopted from Ethiopia, witnessed the videotaping incident...

Fedral officials had no immediate comment on the Keepman's claims...

What else is the Obama administration hiding from us?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; alqaeda; flight253; jihadinamerica; northwestflight253; trialrun

1 posted on 12/28/2009 2:06:40 PM PST by Frankusa
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To: Frankusa
>>> "He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly." <<<

Probably an al Jazeera reporter trying for an exclusive "on-the-scene as-it-happens" scoop.

2 posted on 12/28/2009 2:14:50 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: HardStarboard

The only logic behind filming would be that it was a trial run.


3 posted on 12/28/2009 2:39:40 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Frankusa
What else is the Obama administration hiding from us?

His Birth Certificate?

4 posted on 12/28/2009 2:40:31 PM PST by antivenom (If FOX "is not a news org," it's equally appropriate that the White House is "not real government")
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To: Frankusa
Ms. Keepman said that the man was videotaping from "the very beginning of the airplane ride." Audio
5 posted on 12/28/2009 2:45:08 PM PST by Frankusa (w)
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To: Frankusa
Can't imagine WHY anyone would videotape an entire transatlantic flight.

BS Meter reading full scale.

6 posted on 12/28/2009 2:47:29 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly (MMM MMM MM!)
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To: Clinging Bitterly

I can imagine why but I can’t imagine no one saying anything about a man taping an entire flight


7 posted on 12/28/2009 2:51:23 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: huldah1776; Candor7
The only logic behind filming would be that it was a trial run.

ie his handlers gave him bogus explosives and had agents tail him to document the process!?! I wouldn't doubt that. Will air security start checking inside the seams of passenger's underwear now? I doubt it so that aspect of the operation is still workable.

8 posted on 12/28/2009 3:29:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: Clinging Bitterly

Other than the bombing attempt, that must have been a real thriller of a tape. Next the guy is going to tape his living room ceiling for a week.


9 posted on 12/28/2009 3:46:55 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Frankusa

That tape is history. If it is exists, then the feds will gobble that up and it will go away. “Oops, it broke. Sorry dude.”


10 posted on 12/28/2009 3:51:52 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: huldah1776; Frankusa
The only logic behind filming would be that it was a trial run.

Yes.

So we have at least three conspirators on the plane and another helping them to board.

And its a trial run. Weird.

The other guy with a bomb arrested after deplaning. Why didn't he just set his off aboard the plane?

11 posted on 12/28/2009 4:54:56 PM PST by marron
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Trial run?


12 posted on 01/02/2010 6:04:58 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed Martin Luther King Jr.)
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