[Iran Press TV Latest] Accounts from passengers of the Flight 253, aboard which Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate explosives, suggest that the attack was staged. According to American Free Press, the security firm in charge of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is the Israeli-owned International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) -- the same security firm at the airports where the 9/11 terrorists hijacked the three planes.
Despite tight security screening procedures performed after the 9/11 attacks, passengers who boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 said they found security at Amsterdam's airport to be surprisingly lax.
Richelle Keepman, who was one of the passengers onboard Flight 253, told CNN that security did not have them remove their shoes as they walked through the scanners and metal detectors.
Keepman also said that her mother was allowed to take a large bottle of water onboard the plane.
Another passenger onboard flight 253, Detroit attorney Kurt Haskell, told CNN that he saw a polished Indian man escort Abdulmutallab to the ticket agent, and tried to convince the agent to allow Abdulmutallab board the plane without a passport.
"This man needs to board the plane, but he doesn't have a passport." Haskell quoted the Indian as telling the agent.
When the agent refused to let him board the plane, the Indian man responded, "He is from Sudan. We do this all the time."
The ticket agent, then, took them down a hallway to meet with a supervisor.
Haskell said the next time he saw Abdulmutallab was when he tried to ignite the explosives hidden inside his underwear.
Keepman told CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 show that when she first boarded the plane, she noticed a man with a camcorder filming the goings-on inside the plane.
After the incident took place, Keepman said the man with the camcorder was the only one standing as he continued to film the scene.
Haskell said that after the plane landed, another Indian man was led away in handcuffs after bomb-sniffing dogs detected explosives in his carry-on luggage.
To date, FBI officials have refused to acknowledge the arrest of the Indian man.
Abdulmutallab has at times denied any association with the militant al-Qaeda group and claimed that he was trained in Yemen.
Washington, however, alleges he was instructed in the Arab country, which US officials claim is infested with al-Qaeda militants.
According to military analyst and counterinsurgency specialist Gordon Duff, "There is no al-Qaeda in Yemen. George Bush released a couple of phony operatives from Guantanamo, and after traveling to the Middle East, they hooked up with the Mossad. The only reason Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez released them is because they're assets."