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For al-Qaida, Detroit Was Just the Cheapest Flight

WASHINGTON -- When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, The Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit. The...

Underwear Bomb Suspect's Trial Set for October

DETROIT (AP) - A judge on Tuesday set an Oct. 4 trial date for a Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 using a bomb hidden in his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is acting as his own lawyer, asked for a 2012 date and said he might not have enough time to...

'All Clear' at Boston's Logan Airport After Suspicious Package Scare

(Nov. 23) -- Officials say there is no terror threat at Boston's Logan International Airport, hours after the discovery of two suspicious packages prompted the evacuation of a cargo building. "We're all clear; nothing is wrong," airport spokesman Phil Orlandella told AOL News by phone today. Earlier this afternoon,...

The TSA's Greatest Hits: 4 Notorious Pat-Downs

(Nov. 22) -- It hit critical mass when a California man decided that the government's new airport security measures went too far. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," John Tyner told a Transportation Security Administration agent in a San Diego airport earlier this month, as the agent prepared to perform a new...

TSA Chief Says No Body Cavity Searches

WASHINGTON (Nov. 22) -- Today's airline travelers may have to endure intimate pat-downs and scanners that create revealing body images, but there's one humiliation they won't have to face, at least not yet: body cavity searches. "We're not going to be in the business of doing body cavities," John Pistole, the head of the...

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No-Fly List Maintained By FBI Includes Double The U.S. Citizens Since 2009

The number of U.S. citizens and green card holders on the FBI's terror watch list has more than doubled since Christmas 2009, when the attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit exposed flaws in the list and gaps in how government agencies used the information to screen potential security threats.

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06/01/12 No-Fly List Maintained By FBI Includes Double The U.S.... Source: The Huffington Post The number of U.S. citizens and green card holders on the FBI's terror watch list has more than doubled since Christmas 2009, when the attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit exposed flaws in the list and gaps in how government agencies used the information to screen potential security threats.
05/17/12 Undie-bomb blabbering: No way to fight terror Source: New York Post - New York NY Whether the administration is too publicly forthcoming with its terror-fighting intelligence.
05/15/12 The Body Bomb â A New Terror Threat Source: Buzz Patrol Newsweek have revealed the details of a secret report which elaborates on the latest type of weapon that is being engineered by Al Qaeda's bomb expert Ibrahim al-Asiri.
05/12/12 The mad bomber Source: New York Post - New York NY Doctors use it to dilate the arteries of patients with angina.
05/11/12 Body scanners would not detect underwear bomb Source: Travel Daily News The bomb, a refined version of the so-called underwear bomb used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his Christmas Day 2009 attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is now at the FBI crime laboratories in Quantico, Virginia.

Background on umar farouk abdulmutallab

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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