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al Qaeda Man from Nigeria (on No Fly List) Tries to Blow Up Northwest Airlines Flight
al Qaeda Man from Nigeria (on No Fly List) Tries to Blow Up Northwest Airlines Flight
A guy who was not supposed to be on an airplane tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight today on its way to Detroit. A 23-year-old Nigerian man tried to light a powdery substance aboard a Northwest Airlines flight before landing in Detroit on Friday. According to ABC News sources, the man claimed he was directed by al Qaeda to set off an explosion on the plane. Two people noticed the attempt ignite the device and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him. The man is being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said. The TSA issued a statement reading, in part: “All passengers have deplaned and out of an abundance of caution, the plane was moved to a remote area where the plane and all baggage are currently being rescreened. A passenger is in custody, and passengers are being interviewed.” Video and More below: Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Plane Two Injured in Northwest Airlines Flight From Amsterdam to Detroithttp://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/...ID+With+LID%29
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Passenger Tried to Blow Up U.S. Jet; al-Qaida Blamed
Friday, 25 Dec 2009 06:20 PM Article Font Size WASHINGTON – U.S. officials say a Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida when he tried to blow up a flight Friday as it landed in Detroit. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit. One of the U.S. intelligence officials said the explosive device was a mix of powder and liquid. It failed when the passenger tried to detonate it. The passenger was being questioned Friday evening. Both of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing. The motive of the Christmas Day attack was not immediately clear. "He appears to have had some kind of incendiary device he tried to ignite," said one of the U.S. officials. Authorities initially believed the passenger had set off firecrackers that caused some minor injuries. Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Susan Elliott said the passenger was subdued immediately. She had no details on the injuries. Delta and Northwest have merged. One passenger from the flight was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Justice said. She didn't know the person's condition, or whether the person was a man or woman. She referred all inquiries to the FBI. An FBI spokeswoman in Detroit said the incident is being investigated. It came just as the flight, an Airbus 330 carrying 278 passengers, was arriving in Detroit from Amsterdam. Passenger Syed Jafri, a U.S. citizen who had flown from the United Arab Emirates, said the incident occurred during the plane's descent. Jafri said he was seated three rows behind the passenger and said he saw a glow, and noticed a smoke smell. Then, he said, "a young man behind me jumped on him." "Next thing you know, there was a lot of panic," he said. Rich Griffith, a passenger from Pontiac, said he was seated too far in the back to see what had happened. But he said he didn't mind being detained on the plane for several hours. "It's frustrating if you don't want to keep your country safe," he said. "We can't have what's going on everywhere else happening here." President Barack Obama was notified of the incident and discussed it with security officials, the White House said. It said he is monitoring the situation and receiving regular updates from his vacation spot in Hawaii. J.P. Karas, 55, of Wyandotte, Mich., said he was driving down a road near the airport and saw a Delta jet at the end of the runway, surrounded by police cars, an ambulance, a bus and some TV trucks. "I don't ever recall seeing a plane on that runway ever before and I pass by there frequently," he said. Karas said it was difficult to tell what was going on, but it looked like the front wheel was off the runway. The Homeland Security Department said passengers may see additional screening measures on domestic and international flights because of the incident. "We encourage those with future travel plans to stay in touch with their airline and to visit http://www.tsa.gov for updates," the department said. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been briefed on the incident and is closely monitoring the situation. The department encouraged travelers to be observant and aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious behavior to law enforcement officials. http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-Airl...2/25/id/344651
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U.S. says Delta flight incident terrorism related
KAILUA, HAWAII (Reuters) – The United States believes an incident, which news reports said involved a small explosion aboard a Delta flight arriving in Detroit was terrorism related, a White House official said on Friday. "We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. President Barack Obama is on vacation in Hawaii and was closely monitoring the situation. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091225/...ight_terrorism
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King: Airline bombing suspect had 'significant terrorist connections'
By Michael O'Brien - 12/25/09 08:38 PM ET The suspect in an alleged attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas was on a list "indicating significant terrorist connections," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Friday. King, the top Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, described the suspect in the attempted bombing of a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit as a 23-year-old Nigerian national with potential ties to al-Qaeda. "He is a 23 year old Nigerian who is also - it's been confirmed to me - while he was not on a no fly list, his name was on a list for having terrorist connections," King said during an interview Christmas evening on CNN. News broke Friday afternoon that a Nigerian man had attempted to light some sort of explosive device on the flight as it was approaching Detroit in an event described later by U.S. officials as an attempted terrorist attack. The man failed in his attempt, and was reportedly subdued by the passengers and crew of the flight. A senior Obama administration official told ABC News Christmas evening that the Northwest airlines incident "was an attempted act of terrorism. We're taking increased steps to mitigate any threats." The official said that earlier reports that the explosives lit were firecrackers were not true, but did not comment further on the nature of the devices. The official added that the administration as for now does not believe that the attack was part of a broader effort. King provided the earliest confirmation that the suspect, whose name King said he had, might have been affiliated with terrorists. "His name was in a database indicating significant terrorist connections," King said. King said the suspect boarded a flight from Nigeria and traveled to Amsterdam, where he transferred onto a flight headed toward Detroit. The New York lawmaker, a top lawmaker on Homeland Security, suggested that the U.S. had maintained previous concerns about Nigerian air security, prompting the U.S. to provide some security assistance to that government. "There's a real worry about terrorist activity in Nigeria, so much so that last year the American government gave body detection technology to Nigeria for their airports," King said. "Their level of security, we felt was not comprable to others." Jordan Fabian contributed to this report http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...st-connections
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Possible Wannabee?
1. He seems too cooperative.
2. By now AQ will have tested and perfected binary explosives. They are pros. 3. Sounds like a fire in the shoe copycat. 4. He was on a watch list but not a no-fly list.
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Investigators: Terrorist wore suicide underwear made by top AQ bombmaker in Yemen
posted at 3:45 pm on December 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey In the war on terror, we’ve seen suicide vests and suicide belts. We’ve even seen suicide rucksacks. Now, the top Yemeni bombmaker for al-Qaeda has the latest in fashion for radical jihadists looking to martyr themselves for their faith, as ABC News reports: The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect’s underwear before sending him on his mission, federalIt’s difficult to see how TSA will create standards to protect against suicide underwear. Thanks to Richard Reid, we have to take off our shoes before getting to the gate now at the airport. An underwear check will certainly make security today, with all of its delays, seem like a breeze in comparison, when breezes from airport air conditioning start hitting new places altogether. Interestingly, this attack suffered from the same problem as the shoe bomber’s: incompetence. Both flights got lucky that the radical Islamist at the trigger didn’t know how to set off the bomb properly. The heroes on both flights could have been seriously wounded had even a portion of the underwear detonated. TSA has already imposed new restrictions on international flights coming into the US (via Amy Alkon and Business Insider): 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 after a passenger tried to light some kind of explosive on a flight into Detroit.But at the origin of the problem, not much has changed: Little was different at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, where the man’s trip originated. Soldiers impassively stared at those passing into the departure terminal Saturday. Others sat and talked among themselves, loaded rifles tossed over their shoulders.Once again, the reaction to a terrorist attack has been to penalize everyone else instead of getting serious about the actual threat. The US should have started emulating El Al after 9/11, whose security screening uses expert analysis and questioning, as well as heightened scrutiny where it belongs. I wrote this over three years ago: Israel doesn’t worry about what a passenger might carry onto a flight as much as they focus on the traveler himself. John Hinderaker at Power Line described his experiences flying El Al several years ago, while traveling with his family to Israel.Perhaps I wouldn’t have predicted suicide underwear at that time, but as I wrote in August 2006, the multiplying of regulations for everyone just means that terrorists will get more creative while everyone else gets discouraged from traveling at all. As an approach to security and counterterrorism, it’s just nuts. Update (AP): The ABC article says he was traveling via a U.S. visa granted in 2008, but the AP’s reporting that the feds have known for at least two years that he might have terrorist ties. Do we, er, normally grant visas to people we suspect of jihadist tendencies? Meanwhile, two other passengers say they saw the suspect before the flight trying to board without a passport: Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man…Here’s a little something dug up by the Breitbart team this afternoon. Sleep tight. How to make a binary explosive or IED http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/2...aker-in-yemen/
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