They LIE.
gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com has the story! He was ONLY stopped because it was the Emirates line that got him, because he ONLY got put on the list AFTER the incident. But this is the Obama media at work...
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/fix-this-and-fix-this-fast-big-hole-in-our-security-and-thank-you-emirates-airline/
Greta noted, “ just read that Faisal Shahzad was put on the “no fly” list after authorities identified him, but the addition of Shahzad to the list was TOO RECENT FOR SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGER AN ALERT when he got a ticket and boarded the plane.
So why were we able to pick him up? Emirates notified Homeland Security that a guy bought a ticket with cash. If it had not been for Emirates airline, he would have slipped out of the USA!”