Security-system failure helped terrorist attack
Published: Tuesday | December 29, 2009
WASHINGTON, dc (AP):
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded yesterday that the aviation security-system failed when a young man on a watchlist with a United States visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The Obama administration has ordered investigations into the areas of aviation security: how travellers are placed on watchlists, and how passengers are screened, as critics questioned how the 23-year-old Nigerian man charged in the airliner attack was allowed to board the December 25 flight.
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