Articles
Why Flight 253 Could Delay Guantanamo's Closure
It is a nefarious kind of 21st century recycling — freeing terrorists from the prison at Guantanamo Bay so they can return home and plot new strikes on America...
Terrorism on Flight 253: Does It Fit al-Qaeda's Pattern?
With the FBI releasing only sketchy details about the failed attempt to bring down the Northwest Flight 253 in Detroit, many counterterrorism officials and...
Brief History: Air Marshals
Three days after the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253, President Obama announced that federal air marshals would ride shotgun on more flights...
The Lessons of Flight 253
The 23-year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831...
What We Can Learn from Flight 253
The 23-year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831...
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Lessons from Flight 253 The recent attempted attack on Flight 253 gave me a feeling of deja vu [Jan. 11]. The information about the suspect was available;...
Flight 253: Too Much Intelligence to Blame?
In the aftermath of the Christmas airline-bombing attempt, U.S. officials are anxiously trying to figure out what went wrong: Why was there a breakdown in...
Flight 253: No Finger-Pointing, Plenty of Blame
Throughout his Administration's investigation of the intelligence failures that allowed an alleged terrorist to board and almost bomb a Christmas Day flight...
The Flight 253 Bomb Plot: What Did Obama Know?
President George W. Bush was widely criticized for failing to focus before 9/11 on what U.S. intelligence knew of al-Qaeda's threat to America. But was President...
Will the Underwear Bomber’s Plea Unblock the Gitmo Trial Logjam?
Last week Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty in a Michigan court to conspiring to blow up Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009...
