Reporting from Washington U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials disclosed Wednesday. The new information shows that border enforcement officials discovered the suspected extremist ties involving the Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in a database despite intelligence failures that have been criticized by President Obama. “The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection,” a senior law enforcement official said. “The decision had been made. The [database] had picked up the State Department concern about this guy — that this guy may have been involved with extremist elements in Yemen. “If the intelligence had been detected sooner, it could have resulted in the interrogation and search of Abdulmutallab at the airport in Amsterdam, according to senior law enforcement officials, all of whom requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
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March 18, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Wow that’s sad how come people are doing that now at days.
March 19, 2010 at 1:10 am
Good article Jazmin, but there are some words i didn’t get, but other than that, interesting article(:
March 20, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I agree with Hazel, some words were hard to understand, but you described your article very well