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...year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831 ticket for flights from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit and paid for it in cash. He left no contact information with the airline. He checked no bags. Seven months earlier, he had earned himself a spot on a security watch list in Britain after applying for a visa to attend a dubious English university. And when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab broke off contact with his family in October to join...
...permitted to fly to the U.S. after extra airport screening, and a set of 3,400 on the no-fly list, who cannot board commercial aircraft in or bound for the U.S. under any condition. Unfortunately, Abdulmutallab was a long way from a spot on either. (Read "Nigeria Banker Fears Son Is Alleged Plane Attacker...
...safe. Security experts say the hunt for the perfect shield is misplaced: bullets always outrun armor, and the same is true of terrorists and scanners. Or as Winston Churchill warned of a different threat in a different war, "The bomber will always get through." (Read "Detroit Terrorism Suspect: The Nigeria Connection...
...Read "The Detroit Suspect: From Nigeria's Privileged, a Radical Convert...
...nation's foremost Islamic group, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, dismissed the attempted bombing as an "isolated incident which did not point to a wider problem with Islamist militancy in the country." Still, many analysts say Islamic extremists and terrorist networks operate in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, feeding an already tense coexistence between the country's equally large Christian and Muslim populations. Sani blames Nigerian authorities for "negligence and security lapses" that have created a constant threat of violence. "You have numerous groups of extremist religious sects that have been receiving support and sponsorship from nations across the world...