False Flag: Underwear Bomber was a CIA Double Agent

From the Globe and Mail

The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of al-Qaeda last month to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was actually a double agent who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, U.S. and foreign officials said Tuesday.

In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the agent left Yemen, travelling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his air attack and critical information on the group’s leaders to the CIA, Saudi and other foreign intelligence agencies.

This accounts for another example of what could be a false flag (Wikipedia.org)

operations are covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.

And this is why I staunchly adhere to the great Frederic Bastiat’s doctrine that aims to distinguish the seen and the unseen

Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference - the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen, and also of those which it is necessary to foresee.

Visible ‘terrorism’ effects, as illustrated above, can be manufactured for political reasons—example to justify the existence and or the expansion of government bureaucracies (such as US Homeland Security) or to promote interests of the military industrial complex or both.

Or seen at another angle, maybe the war on terror may have spawned their own monsters.