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Details of Christmas Day Bomber Interview Released

WASHINGTON (Jan. 24) -- For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked - to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents. He spoke openly about what he'd done and why, and provided valuable...

Opinion: Our Reaction Is the Real Security Failure

(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...

Obama Points to Failures in Intelligence System

Washington (Jan. 7) -- President Obama said Thursday that America's first line of defense is "timely, accurate" intelligence that is properly integrated. "That's not what happened" before the attempted December 25 airplane bombing, he said. Obama pointed out three failures in the nation's intelligence system that allowed...

Nigerian Suspect Indicted in Airline Plot

DETROIT (Jan. 6) - A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day was indicted Wednesday on charges including attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to kill nearly 300 people. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was traveling from Amsterdam when...