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Obama to get report on intelligence failings in Detroit plot
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 31 - 12 - 2009


US President Barack Obama was to receive the
first results Thursday from an inquiry into the how the intelligence
community failed to prevent the Christmas Day attack on a US airliner
over Detroit, , according to dpa.
Obama was also to receive a preliminary report into beefing up
airline security. Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, allegedly
smuggled PETN explosives onto a flight from Amsterdam and tried to
ignite the powder as the plane was nearing landing in Detroit.
US investigators meanwhile were reportedly turning their attention
to a US-born Yemeni cleric"s ties to Abdulmutallab as part of an
ongoing effort to find the plotters behind the Christmas attack.
Anwar al-Awlaki, who preached from a mosque in Northern Virginia
before moving to Yemen in 2002, is alleged to have been part of an
effort to radicalize Abdulmutallab, the Wall Street Journal reported,
citing US officials.
Al-Awlaki also had contacts with a lieutenant who opened fire in
November at the US military base in Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13
people. The extent of al-Awlaki"s contacts with Abdulmutallab is
unclear.
Obama hopes that the preliminary inquiries will help fill some of
the gaps in how the US intelligence community missed warning signs
about Abdulmutallab"s failed plot. A Yemen-based arm of al-Qaeda has
claimed responsibility for the attempt.
The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency
(NSA) knew for about four months of a possible plot, picking up
chatter from al-Qaeda leaders about a Nigerian being trained for the
attack in Yemen. But US agencies failed to connect the dots, despite
Abdulmutallab"s father warning US officials in November that he
believed his son had become radicalized.
Obama on Tuesday heavily criticized the intelligence community for
failing to avert the near disaster and promised to hold people
accountable. He ordered a preliminary inquiry to be completed by
Thursday and a fuller investigation in the next few weeks.
"There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed
to this potential catastrophic breach of security," Obama said. "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."


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