Word: detroit
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...reaction to the two terrorist attacks during the last week in December is puzzling. One of the attacks, against a CIA outpost in Afghanistan, succeeded; the other, on an airplane landing in Detroit, failed. The Undiebomber was an amateur who was thwarted, rather neatly, by his fellow passengers on the plane. The Afghanistan operation was quite the opposite--highly sophisticated and devastating, with vast implications for both the war in Afghanistan and future clandestine CIA operations. And yet the Undiebomber has provoked an avalanche of attention in our twittery media--and from Republicans like Dick Cheney who yearn...
...days since passengers overpowered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard the Detroit-bound jet he allegedly tried to blow up on Christmas Day, almost every aspect of the case - from Abdulmutallab's absence from no-fly lists to the handling of intelligence from Nigeria - has been the focus of fierce criticism of the Obama Administration. On Thursday afternoon, President Obama outlined preliminary reviews of the intelligence failings that allowed Abdulmutallab onto the Amsterdam-to-Detroit jet and laid out additional steps to fix those shortcomings. Reporting that a systemic failure allowed the bombing attempt, he said he was ultimately responsible and made...
However, state-run media has taken a back seat to foreign journalists, who have been coming to Yemen since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, is said to have been trained and armed by Yemeni-based AQAP. The threat from AQAP led to the closing of foreign embassies in Sana'a, including the U.S. and British ones. While the embassies have quietly reopened, people are wary that al-Qaeda, in the form of foreigners or locals, may be operating in the capital...
...triggered. The roads around the 49-year-old electrician's apartment in Dublin were cordoned off, and bomb-disposal experts searched the premises, turning up 3 oz. of the powerful explosive material RDX. The amount was greater than what Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of carrying on board Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas...
...given the increased scrutiny of airport security measures after the attempted bombing of the flight over Detroit last month, could more of us become guinea pigs for airport security staff? "If your security regime is entirely transparent, then you're almost inviting people to try and get around it," says Ripley. "Unpredictability can be a useful tool, but in this case, I think enthusiasm got in the way of professionalism...