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U.S. Failed to Catch Suspect's Active Visa
CBS News ^ | December 28, 2009 | Armen Keteyian

Posted on 12/28/2009 7:42:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

CBS News has learned the State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the United States.

According to a law enforcement source, the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009, the very same day Abdulmutallab father’s, Dr. Umaru Mutallab, a prominent banking official in Nigeria, expressed deep concern to officials at the U.S. Embassy in Abjua, Nigeria, that his 23-year-old son had fallen under the influence of "religious extremists" in Yemen.

The second failure to flag an active visa belonging to Abdulmuttalab occurred the very next day in Washington, after Mutallab's concerns were forwarded to officials there. It was only after the Christmas Day terror attack in Detroit that U.S. officials learned that Abdulmuttalab had been issued a visa by the U.S. Embassy in London.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; aliens; failed; immigrantlist; immigration; importingterror; jihadinamerica; visa
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You cannot connect the dots if you don't collect them.
1 posted on 12/28/2009 7:42:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Incompetents in government.


2 posted on 12/28/2009 7:44:47 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too busy monitoring Glenn Beck’s program.


3 posted on 12/28/2009 7:44:53 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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A really active journalist would search for this muzzies conections to our cinc the half-white bat turd kenyan.


4 posted on 12/28/2009 7:50:44 AM PST by petertare (--.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is a slow process, but we now know US Embassy in Nigeria sent info re father’s concern the next day to Washington DC.

And that is when Obama and his incompetent Black Muslim Presidency dropped the ball.


The second failure to flag an active visa belonging to Abdulmuttalab occurred the very next day in Washington, after Mutallab’s concerns were forwarded to officials there.


5 posted on 12/28/2009 7:56:00 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

reported this morning on Fox & friends that he boarded the plane without a passport. A well dressed Indian man was with him at the airport and convenced them to let him board the flight without his passport.

But yet Obama’s minions are claiming he acted alone and is not part of a larger plot.


6 posted on 12/28/2009 7:57:15 AM PST by stockpirate (Dec. 24, 2009, the day liberty in America died to applause in the US Senate)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed

No, it's failed countless times all the way back to Atta & Co. The State Dept. has no idea how many "students" are here on expired visas.

the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009

No, dad reported him SIX MONTHS ago back in JUNE. Not only that, we knew about him and had him on some list TWO YEARS ago. Beware the cover up!

7 posted on 12/28/2009 7:57:25 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The no passport is also headlined on Drudge.


8 posted on 12/28/2009 7:58:26 AM PST by stockpirate (Dec. 24, 2009, the day liberty in America died to applause in the US Senate)
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To: stockpirate

No passport but he did have a visa. Someone help me out here. Are we purely referring to the records that Hillary’s Dept has?


9 posted on 12/28/2009 8:02:24 AM PST by bergmeid (obama. With a small o.)
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Passport issue can be easily solved.

Either he had a passport on him when he was arrested and removed from the plane or he didn’t.


10 posted on 12/28/2009 8:02:36 AM PST by onyx
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I cannot understand this ‘no passport flying’ thing: how can that be???

Every time I returned to the US from ANY country, through ANY country, mine is examined like if it was a fake by several people, and I am a US citizen!

Does not compute...


11 posted on 12/28/2009 8:05:20 AM PST by elpinta (Change: check. Hope: not so much.)
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To: onyx

It is also being reported that the FBI is looking for a man who recorded the ENTIRE FLIGHT on video!!

Per the Drudge Report!

“Her daughter said that ahead of them was a man who videotaped the entire flight, including the attempted detonation.

“He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly,” said Patricia. “We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we’ve heard nothing about it.”

“We heard what sounded like an electrical pop to me. Everybody looked above their seats, kind of like startled, panicked. Shortly thereafter, we heard the screams. We could not see what was going on. We were too far back. We heard shouting, and you could hear the mayhem happening.”

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/80201152.html


12 posted on 12/28/2009 8:05:48 AM PST by stockpirate (Dec. 24, 2009, the day liberty in America died to applause in the US Senate)
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That’s weird. I saw those people interviewed on Fox ‘n Friends this morning and although the interview was short, they didn’t mention the man who taped the incident, but they said everyone was interviewed individually by the FBI, so I am left to wonder why the FBI would now be looking for that man, since I am certain the FBI took names and addresses and verified same.


13 posted on 12/28/2009 8:12:31 AM PST by onyx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How will they blame Bush on this? Seems everything has happened on obammma’s watch!


14 posted on 12/28/2009 8:14:08 AM PST by rawhide
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama and Co need to go. They are a danger to our country.


15 posted on 12/28/2009 8:18:48 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: onyx

I am sure that the FBI interviewed the cameraman who identified himself as Osama Abdullah Hussein al-Jihadi, Executive Producer of “America’s Funniest Crotch Fire Videos” on MSNBC. Nothing to see here, move along...


16 posted on 12/28/2009 8:21:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

:)


17 posted on 12/28/2009 8:23:47 AM PST by onyx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He was traveling on the same pass port that Obama used himself?


18 posted on 12/28/2009 8:25:00 AM PST by buck61
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Or someone removed the dots from the computer .... ...


19 posted on 12/28/2009 8:28:35 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


20 posted on 12/28/2009 8:42:28 AM PST by gubamyster
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