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...bottom line is this," said Obama, in the grand foyer of the White House. "The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack, but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots." (See pictures of the suspect bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...issue were a number of key mistakes that Obama and Brennan had already identified. Intelligence agencies knew, for instance, about the intent of radicals in Yemen to attack the U.S. They also knew that the suspected bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had traveled to Yemen and that his father had contacted the U.S. embassy in Nigeria with concern that his son had fallen in with radical elements. Making matters worse, no one in the intelligence community tied the two sets of information together, inquired as to whether Abdulmutallab had a U.S. visa or thought...
...measures that show up after something happens are kind of just to make people feel better," said a woman who travels frequently and went through "a little bit more [security] than usual" at Paris' Charles de Gaulle International Airport. "If I were a terrorist, I wouldn't plan an attack for the day after someone else's, because that would be stupid." (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...this is indeed the case, then the attack on the Danish cartoonist, which may or may not have been part of the group's plans, raises the question of whether the Kenyan police have the capacity to stop potential Somali attackers from entering their country and possibly continuing on to other nations...
...interdict everyone coming to Kenya from Somalia," Hogendoorn says. "The border is just a line in the sand - not to mention, they could sail a dhow down from Somalia to a Kenyan village on the coast. It would be extremely difficult for Kenya to defend against a terrorist attack on a soft target...