President Obama Links Christmas Day Terrorist Attempt To al-Qaida

Obama Ties Failed Plane Attack to Al Qaeda -- New York Times

HONOLULU, Hawaii — President Obama declared for the first time on Saturday that a branch of Al Qaeda based in Yemen sponsored the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American passenger jet, and he vowed that those behind the failed attack “will be held to account.”

In his first radio and Internet address of the new year, Mr. Obama also rebutted attacks by former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans who since the incident have accused him of not recognizing that the struggle against terrorists is a war. Mr. Obama said he was well aware that “our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.”

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More News On Al Qaeda And The Failed
Christmas Bombing Of Flight 253

Obama: Al-Qaeda trained alleged jet bomber -- Times Online
Obama blames Al-Qaeda affiliate for airliner attack -- AFP
Obama blames al-Qaeda for Christmas Day jet 'bomb' -- BBC
Obama Links Christmas Day Terrorist Attempt to al-Qaida -- Voice of America
President Obama: Terror suspect linked to al Qaeda -- Politico
Obama Fingers al-Qaeda, Finally -- National Review