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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...

Obama Ties al Qaeda to Christmas Day Terror Plot

(Jan. 1) - President Obama today urged an end to political sniping over the handling of efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, saying that Americans should not succumb to "partisanship and division" in the face of the enemy such as the al Qaeda group in Yemen that plotted the bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.

Nigerian Had Contact With Radical Cleric, Official Says

WASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- Terror suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab appears to have had direct contacts with radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Thursday. The official could not say more about the contacts, their frequency or timing. Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra of...

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Anwar Al Awlaki Role In Prepping Underwear Bomber Revealed By Feds

The United States on Friday submitted a memorandum to a Michigan federal judge revealing that terrorist leader Anwar al Awlaki had more direct involvement that previously known in the so-called underwear bomber's preparations to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009.

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Considering the Costs and Benefits of Counterterrorism

It is a clichÃ© that military planners are doomed to prepare for the previous war rather than the next one.

GADLING

Body scanners used as porn by airport security

Nigerian investigative reporters visited the airport during a slow period when security officials had time to spare.

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02/16/12 'Underwear Bomber' Sentenced to Life in Prison Source: NBC - WEEK - Peoria IL According to The Detroit News, the man who was nicknamed the "underwear bomber" after his failed attempt to detonate a bomb aboard a plane headed to Detroit in 2009 was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday by a U.S. District Judge.
08/28/11 Hot stories in Metro Detroit: Death of wing walker at... Source: Advance Newspapers - Ann Arbor MI Here is this week's installment of the most popular stories in the world of MLive.com Detroit news, business, automotive and entertainment.
10/14/10 Failed terror attack suspect sacks legal team Source: BreakingNews - Ireland Failed airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla has dismissed his legal team and will represent himself in court in Detroit today.

Background on Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Arabic عمر فاروق عبد المطلب) (also referred to as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri; born in Lagos, Nigeria on December 22, 1986), popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber", is a Nigerian Islamist.

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