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Instantly, a second passenger, Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch video producer sitting two seats behind Ghonda, leaped up, hopscotched across the middle section of seats and threw himself on top of the bomber, shouting at his fellow passengers to pass water bottles and blankets his way. Other passengers screamed; some ran...
One day after his father visited the U.S. embassy in November and told the CIA of his son's growing radical nature, U.S. officials from at least four agencies met to share the information. But exactly what, if anything, happened next is unclear. Abdulmutallab's name was added to the...
2. The search-and-scan system at airports can be beat Security teams have beefed up airport body-scanning and searching protocols continually since 9/11, but terrorists have been far more aggressive about exploiting their weaknesses. Part of the problem is our chronically reactive approach to airline security: in military...
Experts say the undergarment bomb probably would have shown up on the new generation of whole-body imaging scanners that are chiefly designed to detect explosives. These devices, using millimeter waves or X-rays, generate a picture so detailed that the officials reviewing them are located elsewhere for the sake...
3. Al-Qaeda is bigger than Osama bin Laden As Obama sends 30,000 more troops to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists, it is obvious that al-Qaeda has set up franchises to wage offensive war against the U.S. in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Yemen...