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Pakistan Is Still 'Heart' of Al-Qaida

(Jan. 20) – The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound flight may have increased the visibility of the Yemen-based wing of Al Qaida, but Pakistan's tribal area remains the terrorist organization's strongest base of support, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said today. "I would still say the...

What Intelligence Analysts Didn't Do in Airliner Plot

(Jan. 7) -- It's not that intelligence analysts couldn't connect the dots in the failed Christmas bombing plot. It's that they didn't try hard enough to do so. That, in essence, was the conclusion of a White House review of why the attack wasn't discovered and stopped before it fizzled in the skies above Detroit. The...

Opinion: Obama Missteps on Airport Security

(Jan. 5) – In confronting the aftermath of the Christmas bombing plot, President Obama is surely discovering one thing: It isn't easy being George Bush. In its reaction to the failed attacks, the Obama administration has responded with many of the same panicked measures that were seen in the Bush response after...

Left Unsaid: How to Connect the Terrorism Dots

(Jan. 5) -- When President Barack Obama declared that U.S. intelligence must do more to identify potential terror threats, he left out one key detail: just how the government will piece together future plots in time to foil them. After meeting with his top national security advisers, Obama said Tuesday that the...

Obama: 'Other Red Flags' in Christmas Plot

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5) – Intelligence agencies knew of "other red flags" and had "sufficient information" to disrupt the Christmas Day bomb plot but "failed to connect the dots," President Barack Obama said today after meeting with his national security team at the White House. Despite expectations that Obama would...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

VIDEO: Artist Explores Psychedelic Femininity

The Swiss artist talks to Adrian Searle about her new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which features psychedelic video works and a pair of underpants hanging on a line.

HOUSINGWATCH.COM

Times Square Bomber's Home Auction Fizzles

Instead, the three interested parties who showed up to the public auction told New Haven Register that the price of the foreclosure was too high.

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02/03/12 America doubles its no-fly list Source: Voice of Russia As Associated Press reports the US list of individuals banned from flying because of their alleged links to extremist groups has doubled in the last years.
10/12/11 'Underpants bomber' pleads guilty Source: BBC World News A Nigerian accused of trying to bomb a US-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009 has told his trial in Detroit that he is pleading to guilty to all charges.
10/11/11 Underpants bomber sought martyrdom Source: 24.com A young Nigerian man who hid explosives in his underwear aimed to kill nearly 300 people aboard a US-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 so (that) he could achieve martyrdom, US prosecutors said on Tuesday.
11/30/10 Admiral Mullen vs. Professor Hayek, by David Henderson Source: EconLog I mentioned briefly in a comment on my own blog post a few weeks ago that there is a Hayekian approach to protecting ourselves from terrorists.

Background on underpants bomber

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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