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US intelligence lapse facilitated Nigerian bomber to board Detroit-bound flight | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had received a lead on a person dubbed 'The Nigerian' suspected for meeting 'terrorist elements' in Yemen as early
as August 2009, but it failed to establish a link when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father went to the US Embassy in Nigeria in November to express concerns about
his son's ties with al Qaeda. In fact, the connection was not established until
after the attempted Christmas Day bombing. "We must get better at collecting these
bits of information, putting them together at a central point, analysing them
and then acting," CBS News quoted Lee Hamilton, the vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission,
as saying. Many experts are comparing the global security breach with the kind
of system failure detailed in the 9/11 Commission Report. "We're sharing information
better than we did prior to 9/11, but this incident surely illustrates we've got
a long ways to go," Hamilton said. In a statement on Tuesday, the CIA spokesman
Paul Gimigliano said: "We learned of him in November, when his father came to
the U.S. embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his
name before then." "This agency, like others in our government, is reviewing all
data to which it had access - not just what we ourselves may have collected -
to determine if more could have been done to stop Abdulmutallab," he added. Meanwhile,
Yemeni Foreign Minister warned that there may be hundreds of trained young militants
ready to follow in the footsteps of Abudulmutallab. "They may actually plan attacks
like the one we just had in Detroit. There may be hundreds of them - 200 to 300,"
he added. |
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