Britain Warned U.S. Gov About
Detroit Bomber In 2008
January 5. 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama
A new report has surfaced revealing, in 2008 the British
government did indeed warn its U.S. counterparts, about radicalized
terrorist, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who attempted to blow up a NWA-Delta
airlines flight on Christmas Day.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Once again, the federal government’s problem the
Judiciary Report wrote about months before the bombing attempt, regarding their
failure to cross reference information within U.S. law enforcement,
meant vital information fell between the cracks and signs of potential
trouble were missed.
U.S. President Obama and British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
They government needs to rectify this on a national
level, with the FBI, CIA, ATF and their fellow federal agencies, working
as a cohesive unit, rather than a fragmented team, engaging in turf wars.
Clearly, everyone is not on the same page.
There should be at least a minimal level of information shared
between all national agencies, while assigning more sensitive information to
higher tiers, only accessible by certain officials. Local and state
police should be piped into the same system as well.
STORY SOURCE
MI5 warned U.S. about Detroit airline
bomber in 2008
Last updated at 8:25 AM on 05th January
2010 - Claims: Information on alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
was passed to UK spy agencies, Downing Street has said.
British intelligence agencies had given the
United States information about the Detroit plane bomber long before his
attempted attack, Downing Street claimed yesterday.
The name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was
included in a dossier of people believed to have made attempts to deal
with known extremists that was shared with American intelligence in
2008, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said.
Abdulmultallab was listed as having tried
to contact radical Islamists while studying in London but was not
singled out as a particular risk because he was 'not radicalised until
he left the UK in October 2008', the spokesman added...
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