Flight 253: What Went Wrong?

While attempted Northwest Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was investigated by several top-ranking government agencies, he was never previously identified as a threat. Bob Orr reports.

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[Whitehorze]

What went wrong is that you idiots aren't telling us the whole story...

You call this garbage journalism? A highschool newspaper has more information in one article than this entire "story"... Stop reading off the fax machine and start earning your paychecks you amateurs...

[connielane]

Why was he allow to get on the plane without a passport? He was just a patsy to enable more restrictions on travelers and an excuse to get another war machine rolling along in Yemen! If he really wanted to take a lot of people out he would have blown up the airport, not the plane!

Lots of security failures just like 9/11!

[MrPurpose79]

Just wait for a bra bomber next and then the super patriot act no more fourth amendment

[MrPurpose79]

The Shoe bomber, underwear and Times Square Bomber ALL BULLSHIT

CIA SCAPEGOATS FOR THE FAKE ASS WAR ON TERROR, LOL

[clickclarkable]

even that ass whole Dad warned US about him ,now you all are keep on talking******

[MrBullfrog9876]

What went wrong is the news media misses so much investigation like who is the indian man who let the "terrorist" on the plane without a passport? Who was the other indian man who was removed because bomb sniffig dogs found him? Why were naked body scanners ready packed and waiting for this insident to happen? Why was the former head of Homland Security going to make money off these x=ray scanners? CMON.

[Motivand0LaYal]

@blacklight019

Oh thank u for pointing that out, same here, definetly fishy, smh, even worse..

[blacklight019]

@Motivand0LaYal no..it was not a bomb...jsut some chemicals that if ignited could cause probs.....this story smells fishy to me...prob not to you

[blacklight019]

@queensumeya i know eh..he doesn't even have that terror intent look...but why would they get someone from nigeria...i guess they want ppl to think it is not arabs they are after, it is only muslims..(and all kinds of muslims)

[imatube2]

I can't believe people are still so naive as to believe everything that spews out of the mouth of the media. Fuck all this corporate politically disguised bullshit. People are far too dazzled by the pretty images and enthralling stories coming out of the plastic box in their living room... I bet all that cultural insulation and enormous privilege makes things mighty comfortable.

Evolve already. I'm so tired of this.

[greptor]

It's like Woopi says on the Liberal View program "Why do we need terror alerts? there just trying to scare everybody." It's all Bush's fault.

[queensumeya]

It's so fucking obvious that he was framed by U.S Officials, i mean there isn't enough evidance to convict him besides the boxers, BS poor innocent Omar Abdulmutallab was framed, this shit was a set-up and now he's going to spend the rest of his young life in prison maybe even DEATH!!!.....aaahhhh i don't want him to die!