The FBI has recently been able to gather useful information from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student accused of attempting to bomb Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253. The day he was arrested, 23-year-old Abdulmutallab had revealed that he had been trained by an Al Qaeda branch in Yemen during an interview with the FBI that lasted [...]

The leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, has taken responsibility for the attempt to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. This was done through an audio tape which was broadcast Sunday on Arab television. U.S. intelligence officials, however, were skeptical about how significant a role Bin Laden did play in the planning of [...]

The White House has released a review on the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Included in the document are findings regarding what had not worked and recommendations on what may need to be done better to ensure that the same thing will not happen again. A news feature on The [...]

The White House has released an unclassified report on the things that may have gone wrong in, among other things, the terrorist watchlisting system that is currently being followed in the United States, which culminated in the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. The White House review was released last Thursday, [...]

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect behind the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, appeared in court on Friday. A report described Abdulmutallab as impassive during the proceedings, and opined that considering the gravity of the crime that was attempted by the suspect, the court was “surprisingly calm” an hour before Abdulmutallab’s [...]

As a result of the close call that an airliner had on Christmas Day, several sectors are now calling for United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to step down. This is not exactly the first time that lawmakers have called for Napolitano’s ouster. Republicans have tried to do that in the spring of [...]