Wide U.S. Failures Helped Airliner Plot, Panel Says -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday issued a sweeping indictment of a chain of failures at American intelligence agencies that permitted a Nigerian man with explosives sewn into his underwear to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
The blunders took place at every major intelligence agency and included computer glitches, misspellings and poor analysis, the committee said. Together, the failures meant that the Nigerian passenger, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was never placed on a no-fly list even though his father had warned American diplomats that he might have joined militants in Yemen, where the bombing was planned by a branch of Al Qaeda.
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