Word: abdulmutallab
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...Gregory McNeal, a visiting assistant law professor at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law and a former adviser to military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay, however, argues that the two options are not mutually exclusive. The Administration could have designated Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant for a very short duration to allow for his interrogation, and then moved the case back to federal court, which he believes is the proper place for such a trial...
...McNeal admits that the proposal would likely infuriate civil libertarians but could provide the best of both worlds. While he believes it's too late to follow that course in the Abdulmutallab case, it could be done in future terrorism cases...
...Saleh, 67, finds his snake-dancing skills being tested as never before. The suspicion that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who allegedly tried to blow up a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day, trained for his mission with al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen has renewed attention on the nation as a breeding ground for extremists. Saleh - a professed U.S. Ally - has promised action and indeed has sent hundreds of extra soldiers to the front lines of al-Qaeda-dominated territory east of Sana'a. But U.S. officials view him as a fickle leader facing a difficult array of threats - from...
...aftermath of the Christmas airline-bombing attempt, U.S. officials are anxiously trying to figure out what went wrong: Why was there a breakdown in communication among intelligence services that allowed the suspected attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to slip through the cracks? Were clues missed somewhere along...
...Tuesday, an austere President Barack Obama told the nation that he had ordered his security teams to flesh out the systemic failures that allowed Abdulmutallab to board the plane to the U.S. with explosives allegedly sewn into his underwear. But intelligence gathering, in this case, didn't seem to be the problem. In fact, that system functioned exactly as it was meant to - indeed, perhaps too well. It's clear now that there were multiple signs in recent months that Abdulmutallab was a potential risk, but they were simply lost in the unmanageable flood of information the U.S. intelligence...