Posted on 12/28/2009 7:51:43 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Al Qaeda's admission Monday that it was behind a plot to bring down an American airliner is hardly a surprise. What is a surprise, in fact, is that the United States sent high-tech explosive-detecting equipment to Nigeria that was never used when the bomber boarded the plane, CBS 2 has learned.
The United States spent big bucks a year ago to send four full-body airport scanners to Nigeria to help detect explosives and drugs at the country's four international airports, but as amazing as it may seem, sources told CBS 2 the scanners weren't used when Christmas day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded his plane with an explosive strapped to his leg.
"We have to find out why. If anyone should have gone through this type of body scanning, it was this terror suspect. He clearly, clearly fit the profile," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee," told CBS 2. "These cost good American tax dollars, and yet were not used by the Nigerian government at the airport."
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OK. So I’m back to my passport-lavatory theory slash sob story again plus a local Al Qaeda helper.
In Elsevier, one of the major conservative weekly publications this theory is being explored. That security contractor is apparently infiltrated by all the wrong people.
does PETN even set off any alarms or would it be no di8fferent than walking through securoty with a bag of baking soda or salt in your jeans?
Yes, of course, lets balme everyone else but the real culprits: this lame joke of a jack squat administration and his failed hirling, Janet Napolitano.
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