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Throughout his Administration's investigation of the intelligence failures that allowed an alleged terrorist to board and almost bomb a Christmas Day flight bound for Detroit, President Obama has tried to strike a delicate balance between stressing accountability and resisting the urge to point fingers...
...contrast, Richard Reid, whose December 2001 attempt to bring down a transatlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoe closely resembles the charges made in the indictment against Abdulmutallab, was tried in civilian court. Former Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, whose office prosecuted the "shoe bomber," recalls no discussions about designating Reid an enemy combatant and doubts that the legal mechanisms to do so were even in place at the time. But had the shoe-bomb attempt occurred a few years later, Sullivan says, Reid might well have ended up facing a military tribunal...
...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...
...other expert, who asked to be identified only as a European intelligence official, understands the U.S. consternation over the failure to identify Abdulmutallab before he boarded Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. After all, the official says, an August CIA intercept of a phone conversation in Yemen caught extremists speaking of a Nigerian preparing a strike. And more recently, Abdulmutallab's own father alerted the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, of his concerns that his son's radicalization made him a security threat. Even as Abdulmutallab allegedly put his plot into motion, the official says, details of his movements...
...overlooked as surveillance becomes more technical and computerized and people wait for a warning beep to sound. Yes, Abdulmutallab should have been entered into U.S. systems, but even without that, someone somewhere should have seen these other details and checked them out." (Read "The Lessons of Flight...