Analysis: Detroit Terror Attack Is A Major Intelligence And Security Failure -- The Telegraph
The fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to trigger his home-made incendiary device on board a US airliner represents an intelligence and security failure of staggering proportions.
Tough questions need to be asked of not just the US security agencies – such as the CIA and the FBI – but also of Britain's MI6, MI5 and the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorist unit.
How can a Muslim student, whose name appears on a US law enforcement database, be granted a visa to travel to America, allegedly acquire an explosive device from Yemen, a country awash with al-Qaeda terrorists, and avoid detection from the world's most sophisticated spy agencies?
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My Comment: The British media are calling this a major failure. The U.S. media .... quoting Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, are stating the opposite.
Who to believe?
Hmmmm .... my money is on the British.