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System to keep air travel safe failed: Napolitano
December 27th, 2009
“It did,” Ms. Napolitano said in an interview on NBC’s Today Show, when asked if the system “failed miserably.”
“And that’s why we are asking—how did this individual get on the plane? Why wasn’t the explosive material detected? What do we need to do to change” the security watch list rules, she said.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board. Passengers and crew overpowered him after he set alight an explosive device attached to his body.
On Sunday, Ms. N
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