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  • U.S. officials investigating how Abdulmutallab boarded Flight more missed red flags

    01/03/2010 8:05:26 AM PST · by opentalk · 10 replies · 555+ views
    NYDailynews ^ | January 3rd 2010 | Richard Sisk, James Gordon Meek, Larry Mcshane
    Shortly before Thanksgiving, a concerned Nigerian banker warned the local U.S. Embassy about his missing son's ties to Yemeni radicals and a possible terrorist threat. It wasn't until Christmas that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab resurfaced - in seat 19A of a Detroit-bound airliner, his underwear loaded with enough explosives to kill all 289 people aboard. The 35 days between were rife with missed clues, missteps and miscommunication as authorities - in a 9/11 repeat - failed to connect the terrorist dots surrounding the Al Qaeda-trained bomber. .."Somebody screwed up big time," said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the top Republican on...
  • Report: (Terrorist) Hasan asked about killing troops in ’08

    12/23/2009 6:15:59 PM PST · by tobyhill · 13 replies · 567+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 12/23/2009 | NBC
    A radical Muslim cleric claims Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan asked him about killing American soldiers nearly a year before Hasan allegedly shot to death 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. In an interview Wednesday with the Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera, Anwar al-Awlaki, considered a key recruiter for al-Qaida, said Hasan asked him in a December 2008 e-mail "whether killing American soldiers and officers is lawful or not" under Islamic law. In the interview, Al-Awlaki then appears to taunt U.S. intelligence and security, saying, "I wonder where were the American security forces that one day claimed they can read the...