Why Not Stop Terrorists Before They Board Planes? ; It Is Utterly Incredible That a Man Called Dangerous by His Own Father Got On Flight 253.

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Chilling comments by the man arrested on charges of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane with 288 aboard on Christmas Day deserve the full attention of national and international security agencies.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, reportedly told FBI agents he had been trained in al-Qaida camps in Yemen for his mission and was given 80 grams of an explosive to carry it out. And he added that he was only one of many terrorist trainees in those camps.

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Why Not Stop Terrorists Before They Board Planes? ; It Is Utterly Incredible That a Man Called Dangerous by His Own Father Got On Flight 253.

In a tape posted on the Internet four days before the attempted destruction of the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, an al-Qaida spokesman in Yemen said, "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God," which he cited as being "...

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