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It's tempting to look at Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's foiled attack on a Detroit-bound airplane...warning signs, authorities did nothing to impede Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's travel. He was on watch lists, but was...
On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a student from Nigeria, allegedly tried to...after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to waltz aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner...
...ago, on Christmas Day, a young Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up a passenger jet in...recognize bombs and detonators, so the next Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab doesn't have a better chance of success. And...
...sometimes, the efforts of regular citizens. The 2002 shoe bomber, Richard Reid; the 2009 underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; and the 2010 Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, were thwarted primarily because their devices failed to...
...actual usefulness remains unclear. Remember, a malfunction, not security, kept would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from blowing up a December 2009 flight. Only 49 percent of respondents to that Reason survey expressed confidence...
...attempted to use in 2001. Second, it exposes a terrorism bureaucracy too clumsy to catapult the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at least to a higher level of preflight scrutiny after his father came forward with warnings that he might...
...detonator was not the only malfunction in this near-catastrophe. Government also broke down. The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been on a watch list for the last two years. That list contains names of people known to have extremist...
...eating those words as he tries to figure out how clues given to U.S., Nigerian and British authorities about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's apparent slide into terrorism didn't subject him to at least more careful screening. That's why we...
...should be on lapses in human intelligence, not technology. It was only thanks to chance or ineptness that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed to quickly detonate a plastic explosive and destroy a Detroit-bound Northwest airliner and the 290...
...government fed concerns with its response to the attempted bombing on Flight 253. The FBI interrogated the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, for 50 minutes. At that point, interrogators stopped their questioning so Abdulmutallab could get medical...