The Christmas Day Airliner Attack and the Intelligence Process
Thursday, January 7th, 2010from stratfor
By George Friedman
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
As is well known, a Nigerian national named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to destroy a passenger aircraft traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. Metal detectors cannot pinpoint the chemical in the device he sought to detonate, PETN. The PETN was strapped [...]