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I'll wait until someone more reliable than Peter King confirms that the Nigerian was indeed on a terrorist watch list. I find it a bit surprising that someone with "significant terrorist connections" is NOT on the "no-fly" list.
Yeah, because you wouldn't want to label a guy like that as a terrorist accidently. It wouldn't be fair.
I am definantly not surpised that a suspected terrorist was able to board a plane. Beauracracies are not the most adept at much of anything.
"His name was in a database indicating significant terrorist connections," King said.
King said the suspect boarded a flight from Nigeria and traveled to Amsterdam, where he transferred onto a flight headed toward Detroit.
The New York lawmaker, a top lawmaker on Homeland Security, suggested that the U.S. had maintained previous concerns about Nigerian air security, prompting the U.S. to provide some security assistance to that government.
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