Some would wonder from the title of this article how I could string together these seemingly separate events. Each of these events have had their own type of perpetrators, motives, and victims. They range from minimal property damage to cataclysm of global proportions. But a quick look at deeper research raises questions at minimum.

 The Underwear Bomber, aka Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, is a 24 year-old Nigerian citizen who allegedly attempted to detonate a small amount of plastic explosives hidden in his underwear, tucked under his testicles in an attempt to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. Fortunately, his incendiary was unable to fully ignite leaving light damage to the fuselage of the plane and 3rd degree burns in some very sensitive areas on Umar.
That is the official line. An eyewitness named Kurt Haskell was aboard Flight 253. He describes something very different. He claims that Umar was led aboard the flight without a ticket or passport by a "sharped dressed man" of Indian descent who flashed some credentials to the woman at the gate. After Haskell had boarded the flight, he noticed a different man on the flight who had a video camera trained on Umar from takeoff to ignition. The plane made an emergency landing and the passengers were lead into a customs area of the airport and received their luggage. An hour later, bomb sniffing dogs arrived and alerted on the bag of a different middle aged Indian man. He was taken away and the other passengers were encouraged by an FBI agent to evacuate for their safety.

These events lead me to believe that this was a drill attempting to test the weaknesses of security that actually detonated the small sample of C4 that was to be detected. That would explain the man video recording the incident and why he was not ordered to turn off his electrical device. It would also explain the other Indian man who was not mentioned in the media before Kurt Haskell was called a liar by the FBI. This drill went live for two reasons: maintain the fear quotient in America and to sell America on the naked body scanners being installed in most large airports.
 
 
      Most of us are familiar with the plot of the movie "The Manchurian Candidate," but have merely brushed it off as pure fiction. It's a common belief that brainwashing and mind control were the realms of spy novels and Hollywood fantasy. The unfortunate reality is that both mass and individual hypnotic suggestion to result in political assassination and shooting sprees happens more than you would believe.
      The history of this practice dates back to the 50's with the CIA's Project Bluebird. This and it's derivative, Project Artichoke, employed the use of illegal drugs such as heroin, mescaline, high potency marijuana, and principally LSD along with powerful hypnotic suggestion to create an alternate personality or "shell personality" of the subject. The shell personality could be instructed to commit immoral acts or go against the individual's survival instinct. These projects led to the development of Project MK ULTRA, headed by Dr. Ewen Cameron in Canada and Dr. Louis Jolyn West in the US. Cameron and West used these techniques as well as techniques developed by the Nazi's (for which most of whom were prosecuted in the Nuremberg Trials) to develop the shell personality into the perfect assassin, one who would remember neither the assassination nor the instructions given by the hypnotic programmer.
      Fortunately, this barbaric project was uncovered in 1976 because of the many lawsuits lost due to the provability of physical damage to the victims through the drugging process. The project progressed, under the supervision of Dr. Jose Delgado, to the use of electroshock and focused microwave energy to alter the personality because they left no evidence. This aspect of the project (codename yet to be declassified) continues to this day in many universities like Virginia Tech and military installations like Colorado Springs and Fort Hood. The development of these projects could lead one to believe that some of the assassins and mass shooters in our recent history could by the result of this program.
      Is it a coincidence that RFK's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan and Timothy McVeigh both had the same court appointed psychologist? Would it be a greater coincidence that he was Dr. Louis Jolyn West, the head of the US branch of MK ULTRA? Is it a further coincidence that Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech and was part of the psychological department at Fort Hood?