Get on a flight at a terrorist friendly airport, and just fly thru to the USA. Nothing is checked until customs gets them after exiting the plane.
Airport security is very good in Amsterdam.
Not so good in Lagos, Athens, most of South America and dozens of other major terminals.
al queida in Yemen gave him instructions. Could it be related to recent military push backs in Yemen?
Actually, I don’t think there is a screening system or requirement in place at international airports anywhere that will detect explosives.
So here we are 8 years after the shoe bomber and we still have done nothing to prevent the threat from an explosive. I doubt it was Al-quaeda, though, or it would have worked...
Most likely this guy originated in Lagos, Kano, or Abuja flew on KLM to AMS. Then he connected to his Northwest flight to Detroit. When flying this route, all you do is go through a quick re-screening at the European airport before flying to the US.
I would say things will tighten up considerably now at Schipol. Hopefully same at other places. I fly back home on R&R in a few days, and if they want to call in a proctologist to check me and my fellow pax out, that’s not a problem.