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Obama Points to Failures in Intelligence System
By not in system - AOL NewsWashington (Jan. 7) -- President Obama said Thursday that America's first line of defense is "timely, accurate" intelligence that is properly integrated. "That's not what happened" before the attempted December 25 airplane bombing, he said. Obama pointed out three failures in the nation's intelligence system that allowed a would-be bomber to board a U.S.-bound plane: The intelligence community didn't aggressively follow up on information that it had that al Qaeda sought to strike the U.S.; there was a failure to "connect the dots" in the information; and shortcomings in the in the terror ...
Obama Ties al Qaeda to Christmas Day Terror Plot
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 1) - President Obama today urged an end to political sniping over the handling of efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, saying that Americans should not succumb to "partisanship and division" in the face of the enemy such as the al Qaeda group in Yemen that plotted the bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. ...
Nigerian Had Contact With Radical Cleric, Official Says
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- Terror suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab appears to have had direct contacts with radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Thursday. The official could not say more about the contacts, their frequency or timing. Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, has said he believes there is a connection between AbdulMutallab, who is accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day, and the American-born cleric. Officials are evaluating whether al-Awlaki ...
'Why Don't Moderate Muslims Police Their Own?' Here's One Who Did.
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailySurely you've heard that question asked many times over the past decade. Before we all get lost in election-year political recriminations over the Christmas Day terrorism attack, let's note that there was a hero to this story who hasn't gotten as much credit as he deserves: Based on current news reports, Umaru Abdul Mutallab, father of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, did everything but take out an ad in the Washington Post to let American authorities know that his son needed watching. Months before the 23-year-old Nigerian tried to blow himself up and take down a jet over Detroit, ...
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