Northwest Flight 253

Christmas Bomber Suspect Linked To Alleged U.K. Terrorists

NPR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undie Bomber, Christmas Bombing, British Terrorists, Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Northwest Flight 253, Detroit Bombing, U.K Terrorist, World News

British and U.S. intelligence authorities have linked the young Nigerian at the center of the alleged attack on Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdu...

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NCTC Director Stayed On Ski Slopes In Wake Of Christmas Attack

New York Daily News | James Gordon Meek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nctc Director, Michael Leiter Skiing, Counterterrorism, Nctc Director Michael Leiter, Terrorism, Leiter, Northwest Flight 253, Michael Leiter Response, Nctc, Michael Leiter, Politics News

The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Chr...

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So What's Next for Airline Passengers, Adult Diapers?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Transportation Security Administration, Richard Reid, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Petn, Northwest Flight 253, Flight Restrictions, Airport Security, Obama, Politics News

In the wake of the attempted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound Northwest flight from Amsterdam last week, the Transportation Security Administ...

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Yemen: The Next Front in Obama's War on Terrorism

Josh Lockman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, General Petraeus, Obama Cairo Speech, Al Qaeda, Ali Abdullah Saleh, World News

The administration must continue providing intelligence and counterterrorism aid to the Yemeni government while pushing forward with the use of "smart power" to directly appeal to its people.

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Jasper Schuringa, Northwest Plane 'Hero,' Wants Money For More Interviews After CNN Licenses Cell Image

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jasper Schuringa, the Northwest flight passenger who reportedly subdued Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, appeared on CNN Saturday for an interview with Fred...

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Kicking the National Security Football

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Pete Hoekstra, John McCain, Conservatives, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Republicans, Politics News

National security is serious business. It involves how our country protects and projects itself abroad. It's not meant to be about partisan game-playing.

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My Daughter's on the No Fly List

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airplanes, Flight 253, Terrorism, No Fly List, Northwest Flight 253, Politics News

No one at the airport will tell us how she made the list. They won't even confirm that she's on it. Though I have a pretty good idea why: she has the same name as an IRA terrorist.

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Thinking Realistically About Terrorism

Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Airliner Attack, Yemen, Suicide Bombers, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Pakistan, Northwest Flight 253, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Al Qaeda's next attacks, which are almost inevitable, will be more sophisticated and deadly, and will involve a plan that is more complex than hiding explosives in one man's underwear.

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) LAGOS, Nigeria - A young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact from his worried parents only a...

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The Unfriendly Skies

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Tsa, Aviation Safety, Faa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Homeland Security, Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Richard Reid, Politics News

The only way to truly keep us truly safe while flying a commercial airliner would be to put us all through body scanners, then have us fly in our underwear.

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Indicted: Nigerian man indicted in plot to blow up plane

Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (AP) A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day was indicted Wednesday on charges ...

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The Not-Too-Distant Future of Air Travel: Drop That Sippy Cup!

Bob Geiger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spongebob, Tsa, Lax, Northwest Flight 253, Comedy News

At Los Angeles International Airport a suspicious toddler was recently subdued by alert Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while creating a disturbance.

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Handling of Flight 253 Passengers May Have Missed Security Protocols

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fact that a second passenger was detained on Northwest flight 253 has security experts questioning whether the handling of the passengers on the ground created an additional risk at the airport.

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Delta's Flight 253 Passengers Get Travel Vouchers From Delta After Foiled Terror Plot

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Delta, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Nigerian Terrorist, Nigerian Christmas Flight Terror, Northwest Flight 253, Flight 253, Business News

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines Inc. is offering travel credits to passengers on the Amsterstam-to-Detroit flight that a suspected terrorist tried and...

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Dov Hikind, NY Assemblyman, Calls For Ethnic Profiling Bill (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dov Hikind, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Ethnic Profiling, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, New York Senate, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Racial Profiling, Video, New York News

In the wake of this past weekend's attempted terror bombing, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind plans to reintroduce his 2005 bill that would allow polic...

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OHS Adds "Taking Responsibility" To No Fly List

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Bomb, Northwest Flight 253, Janet Napolitano, Terrorism, Terrorist, Watch List, Tsa, Comedy News

Janet Napolitano, the Rubenesque Secretary of Homeland Security, confirmed that "the truth" and its accomplice, "taking responsibility" have been successfully detained.

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Flight 253 Incident Touches Off New Round Of Religious Profiling Promotion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's a collection of various luminaries, granted an audience on Fox News, talking about how the incident aboard Flight 253 should touch off a new round of intense racial and ethnic profiling against Muslim-looking passengers.

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Botched Attack Revives Scrutiny Of Bush Intelligence Reforms

The Washington Post | Karen DeYong | Posted 05.25.2011

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The failure of U.S. authorities to detect a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has reignited long-simmering concerns that intelligence refo...

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GOP Plays Soft on Terrorism Card Again

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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It didn't take long for anti-terrorism hawks from Joe Lieberman to GOP congresspersons to dump the lax security, terrorist watch breach, and faulty al Qaeda intelligence on President Obama.

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Flip Side of Intelligence Failure -- Poor Response

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: k9, Department of Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Sniffer Dogs, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Detroit Metropolitian Airport, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Security, Intellingence, Fbi, Kurt Haskell, Politics News

Listening to the stories of several passengers, its clear in the first few hours after the removal of Mr. Mutallab from the airplane, some basic safety precautions were not taken.

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New Restrictions For Air Travelers After Christmas Day Bombing Attempt

AP | JOSHUA FREED and JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa, Flight 253, New Travel Rules, Screening, Northwest Flight 253, Detroit, Travel, Airport Travel Rules, Security, Airlines, Tsa Rules, Abdulmutallab, World News

Extra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More bomb-sniffing dogs. Airports worldwide tightened security a day a...

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Dems Hit Back, Blame Bush For Failed Terror Policies

Hotline On Call | Reid Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terror Attempt, Dccc, Gop, Bush Administration, Chris Van Hollen, Flight 253, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Eric Massa, Massa, Van Hollen, Northwest Terror Attempt, Politics News

As GOPers begin increasingly using the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner to score political points, 2 Dems are blaming the Bush admin for ...

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The Global War on Stealth Underwear

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Obama, Bush, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Military-Industrial Complex, Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Politics News

The "systematic failure" in the nation's security -- as President Obama labeled the botched 12/24 airplane attack -- derives from the mistaken assumption that terrorism is a military rather than a criminal threat.

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Sorry, Secretary Napolitano, But the System Didn't Work

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Cia, Transportation Security Administration, Richard Reid, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, Fbi, Janet Napolitano, Northwest Flight 253, Politics News

The U.S. government needs to rethink its national security apparatus and its intelligence-gathering mechanisms: We cannot protect America from terrorism using military force.

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Airport Security: Everything but Accountability

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit Bomber, Janet Napolitano, Tsa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Northwest Flight 253, World News

If employees at the TSA see that there are no career consequences for catastrophic screwups, they will have learned a regrettable lesson: there is no price to be paid for failure.

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