Christmas Terrorist

Obama: The Buck Stops With Me

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures tha...

Obama Orders Air Security Probe

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into possible U.S. security gaps that enabled a Nigerian man of known extremist leanings to keep h...

Full Body Scanners: At What Cost To Privacy?

Posted 05.25.2011

At what cost to privacy? That's the big question in everyone's mind following the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day. Technology has given way to expensive, highly detailed and some argue unnecessarily intrusive full body scanners.

Obama Blames Al Qaeda For Christmas Attack (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press HONOLULU — President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist a...

Family Of Terror Suspect Releases Statement

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The family of the Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S.-bound airliner says he disappeared while studying abroad. ...

Abdulmutallab, Christmas Bomber Suspect, Gets First Day In Court

Posted 05.25.2011

DETROIT (Associated Press) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from hi...

Yemen Confirms Suspect Was In Country

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN'A, Yemen — Yemen's government said Monday that the Nigerian accused in the Christmas day attack on a U.S. airliner visited Yemen this year, ...

Obama Was Warned Of Holiday Terror Threats

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US,...

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Detroit Bomber, Came From Elite Family, Top Schools

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

LAGOS, Nigeria — As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British Int...