Report: U.S. Learned of Airline Bomb Suspect's Extremist Ties While He Was in the Air - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com: "U.S. border officials learned of intelligence linking the man suspected of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane to extremists while he was en route from Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Times reported late Wednesday.
Authorities planned to question the Nigerian when the plane landed, the paper said, showing officials came close to uncovering the Christmas Day plot, despite failures at other levels.
Senior law enforcement officials told the Times if intelligence officials had learned of the information earlier, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab could have been interrogated and searched before he got on the flight from Amsterdam. But it was unclear if the intelligence was strong enough to cause Dutch officials to prevent the man from boarding the plane."
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