The fear mongering surrounding the phony war on terror has continued in a big way. The corporate media recently hyped reports of a supposed terror plot involving explosive devices in packages coming from Yemen. There are so many problems with this story that it is hard to know where to begin in breaking everything down. What is certain however, is that this entire situation is a staged fiasco by the U.S. government and other western powers to further this false terror war and implement more draconian police state measures around the world.
Original reports regarding this incident indicate that none of the said suspicious packages contained explosive materials. Despite this, U.S. President Barack Obama contradicted these reports in a press conference this afternoon claiming that two packages from Yemen destined for Jewish organizations in Chicago did in fact contain explosive material. Obama would also direct agencies within the government to take additional measures to thwart any additional supposed terror plots. The two specific packages which Obama referenced were spotted at airports in the UK and the United Arab Emirates. The initial reports of these suspicious packages also prompted searches of planes at Newark, N.J and Philadelphia as well as searches of UPS trucks. No explosive devices were found as a result of the searches on either the planes or the UPS trucks. Obama would go on to say that they believed the two aforementioned packages were sent by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Following Obama's press conference, many in the corporate media simply forgot about the initial reports and just began to repeat what Obama said...
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