Obama: US had info warning of possible attack

Published Wednesday, December 30, 2009

By AP

President Barack Obama says that the intelligence community had information that should have been pieced together that would have triggered “red flags” and possibly prevented the Christmas Day attempted terror attack on an airliner bound from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Obama said on Tuesday” “There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security”.

Senior US officials said that intelligence authorities are now looking at conversations between the suspect in the failed attack and at least one al-Qaida member.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of al-Qaida there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack.

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