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Obama slams 'systemic failures' that led to Nigerian's Detroit bombing bid | President Barack Obama has come down heavily on a 'mix of human and systemic failures' which facilitated
the Nigerian bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day. "It's becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently
up to date. We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws
in our system because our security is at stake and lives are at stake...I consider
that totally unacceptable," the New York Daily News quoted Obama, as saying. Obama
also expressed "serious concerns" about the bureaucratic logjam that kept officials
from acting on both a warning from the bomber's father and newly disclosed intelligence
warnings that a Nigerian might be on an Al Qaeda terror mission. "Even without
this one report, there were bits of information available within the intelligence
community that could have - and should have - been pieced together. The suspect
would have never been allowed to board that plane for America," Obama said. Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Detroit-bound flight with a U.S. visa even though
his father warned U.S. officials in November that his al Quada-linked son might
be a threat. Even in September, American intelligence had picked up warnings of
plans for a holiday-week terror plot. They also knew that Al Qaeda forces in Yemen
planned to use a recruit dubbed "the Nigerian" for an upcoming attack. "It was
not obvious or readily apparent that all of it spoke to this attack, but in fact
we believe it did," a senior official said. Obama called the lapse a "potentially
catastrophic breach of security" that could have killed nearly 300 people. |
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