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December 28, 2009

Obama Orders Review of Airport Security Following Attempted Plane Bombing
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President Obama has ordered a review of the nation’s aviation security
system after a twenty-three-year-old Nigerian man allegedly tried to
blow up a Detroit-based airliner on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab is accused of setting off a device aboard which resulted
in a fire. Questions have been raised over whether Abdulmutallab should
have been allowed to fly into the United States from Amsterdam. Last
month, his father, a prominent Nigerian banker, warned the US embassy in
Nigeria about his son’s increasingly radical views. After the warning,
Abdulmutallab was added to a terrorist database, but his name was not
put on the no-fly list, and his visa to enter the United States was not
revoked.



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