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Obama vows to track all 'who were involved' in Detroit flight bombing bid | President Barack Obama has vowed to track down 'all who were involved' in the trans Atlantic flight bombing plot, and assured Americans that he will use 'every element of our national power to disrupt, dismantle and defeat
the violent extremists who threaten us.' Emerging out of his three-day seclusion,
Obama said: "We will use every element of our national power to disrupt, dismantle
and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan
or Pakistan , Yemen or Somalia , or anywhere where they are plotting attacks on
the U.S. homeland." Obama acknowledged that the terror carried out by Nigerian
man, who tried to set off explosives aboard a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines
flight, was not that of a lone wolf but of a trained Qaeda operative. "We will
not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. This was
a serious reminder of the dangers that we face and the nature of those who threaten
our homeland," The New York Times quoted him, as saying. Obama's speech
coincides
with a Yemen-based group called Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula taking responsibility
of the attack. Earlier, the same group had vowed to revenge for military operations
carried out by the Yemeni government this month, which were backed by the US ,
in which the AQAP claims 50 people died. "We will not let Muslim women and
children's
blood be spilled without taking revenge," the statement had said. The statement
accompanied by a photograph of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, called the
Nigerian
bomber a hero who had "penetrated all modern and sophisticated technology and
devices and security barriers in airports of the world" and "reached his target."
The statement said that "mujahedeen brothers in the manufacturing department"
had supplied the explosives. Although a "technical error" led to an "incomplete
detonation," it said, the group will "continue on the same path." |
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