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Opinion: Our Reaction Is the Real Security Failure

Jan 7th 2010 – 10:55AM
AP

AP

(Jan. 7) -- In the headlong rush to "fix" security after the Underwear Bomber's unsuccessful Christmas Day attack, there's far too little discussion about what worked and what didn't, and what will and will not make us safer in the future. The security checkpoints worked. Because we screen for obvious bombs, Umar Farouk...

Terrorism Suspect Had Privileged Upbringing

Dec 27th 2009 – 9:04PM
saharareporters.com

saharareporters.com

LAGOS, Nigeria (Dec. 27) -- As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London. U.S. Marshal's Service, AP Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to detonate an...

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