Monday
Dec282009
Northwest Bomber: There Are "More Like Me" On Their Way From Yemen
Video: ABC's Brian Ross reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told FBI agents there are many more just like him in Yemen -- Aired December 28, 2009
FAILED plane bomber Umar Abdulmutallab has bragged to FBI agents that there are more young men plotting to launch attacks on the West. The 23-year-old Nigerian has told security chiefs of a sinister network in Yemen who are ready and waiting to strike.
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The reports come after The Sun revealed that cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
Tens of thousands of people flying to the US for the New Year break have been forced to endure delays of up to three hours after strict new security rules were imposed overnight in the wake of the attempted terrorist attack in Detroit.
Janet Napolitano says the system worked. No, we were brave and lucky.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704680804574620931268246094.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion
THE former London student charged with attempting to blow up a transatlantic jet had been barred from Britain earlier this year, it has emerged.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2785736/Bomber-Umar-Abdulmutallab-at-Buckingham-Palace.html
FBI: Man Flew Into LaGuardia With Firecracker
Passenger Taken Into Custody After Device Found Wedged Between Seats On Piedmont Airlines Flight Into LaGuardia
http://twitter.com/WestJet/statuses/7130990888
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lasted 1 day...
someone filmed the entire flight including the fire...but where are they?
(mentioned in the middle of the story)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091227/ap_on_go_ot/us_airliner_attack_plot
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what a tool...everything she says is wrong before it leaves her mouth....
Food Poisoning Blamed In Second Northwest Flight 253 Bomb Scare
Nigerian Passenger Became 'Unruly' After Crew Forced Him Out of Bathroom
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i call bullshit...he was a nigerian who worked in Yemen...smells like an al-qaida dry run to test the new procedures...
Officials: Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight
Screening Machines May Need to Be Replaced; Al Qaeda Aware of 'Achilles heel'
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091227/D9CRV4M81.html