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Thanks to the suspect’s father for attempting to do the right thing. -Cindy

Thanks to amom for pointing to thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415466/posts

Suspect’s Father Told U.S. of Son’s Extremism
New York Times ^ | December 26, 2009 | Eric Schmitt and Eric Lipton
Posted on December 26, 2009 1:37:37 PM PST by reaganaut1

The Nigerian man accused of trying to ignite an incendiary device aboard a trans-Atlantic jetliner on Friday came to the attention of American officials at least “several weeks ago,” but the initial information was not specific enough to raise alarms that he could potentially carry out a terrorist attack, a senior Obama administration official said on Saturday.

The investigative file was opened after the father of the suspect, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, warned officials at the United States Embassy in Nigeria of his son’s increasingly extremist religious views, the official said.

“The information was passed into the system, but the expression of radical extremist views were very nonspecific,” said the senior administration official, who has been briefed on the inquiry but spoke on condition of anonymity because it is continuing. “We were evaluating him, but the information we had was not a lot to go on.”

The incident prompted a significant change to airline security on Saturday. Domestic and international passengers will not be allowed to move about aircraft during the last hour of a flight, and there will be extra screening of baggage at airports.

It was unclear whether Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name was entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, which includes people with known or suspected contact or ties to a terrorist or terrorist organization. That list is maintained by the United States National Counterterrorism Center. It includes about 550,000 names.

Those people, however, are not necessarily placed on the federal government’s so-called no-fly list, which prohibits persons entering the United States because of known or suspected terrorists links. Mr. Abdulmutallab was not on that list, federal officials say.

Mr. Abdulmutallab [...] was carried off the plane handcuffed to a stretcher, his trousers sheared off.

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the initial information was not specific enough to raise alarms that he could potentially carry out a terrorist attack

The above is a carefully wordsmithed, hypertechnical excuse that is patently obviously devoid of real meaning.

Was he a not-entirely handicapped, Muslim male capable of walking, carrying a three-pound load and communicating in a known langugage?

Then, being on a known Al-Qaeda phone list, as found on a known terrorist's laptop, should have been plenty sufficient to stop the man any and every time he might try to board an airplane to the US!

That the phone listing on the terrorist laptop or that his father didn't associate him with aviation made it insufficient to have such a person stopped and given the third degree? Heaven help us, since obviously the Obama administration isn't helping! This snafu plus the Nidal Hasan politically-correct screw-up, added to the ROE for our troops in Afghanistan should make it eminently clear to everyone with a pluse that Zero's administration is entirely satisfied our population to Muslim interests. No further excuses from White House are acceptable!