Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

(AP/Charles Dharapak/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Photo montage by Salon)

We haven't learned a thing

First responders prepare the wounded for transport in waiting ambulances outside Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, after a mass shooting at the military base November 5, 2009. Investigators searched for the motive on Friday behind the mass shooting at the sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. The suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim born in the United States of immigrant parents, was shot four times by police, a base spokesman said. He was unconscious but in stable condition. Photo taken November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jeramie Sivley/U.S. Army photo/Handout (UNITED STATES MILITARY CRIME LAW CONFLICT HEALTH) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

Pete Yost, Matt Apuzzo

President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, about an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

Obama: When system fails, it is my responsibility

Suspect would have been detained in Detroit

President Obama speaks about plans to thwart future terrorist attacks, on Jan. 5, at the White House.

Ask the pilot: A wakeup call for airport security

President Barack Obama meets with his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House Jan. 5, 2010, about the attempted Christmas Day terrorist act aboard an airliner. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House. (Pete Souza)

Obama takes hard line on Christmas attack

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this file image from May 21, 2009. The CIA withheld information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism program on orders from Cheney, a leading U.S. senator said on July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/Files (UNITED STATES POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) (Reuters)

Not McCain, Lieberman's finest hour

Mohamed Olad Hassan, Katharine Houreld, Jason Straziuso

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Associated Press)

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., accompanied by Senate Democrats, gestures during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)

This image of a graphic which appeared on a Web site frequently used by militants to disseminate their messages, purports to show Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab superimposed over an image of a airplane, with Arabic script which translates in English, beginning with the white script over the blue background, as: "Al-Qaida group in the Arabian Peninsula the Operation of the Mujahid brother Umar al-Farouk the Nigerian," and in the red script, below: "in retaliation to the American aggression on Yemen." In a statement posted on the site dated Saturday Dec. 26, 2009, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. In the statement, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the group, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (AP Photo) (AP)

Yemen: U.S. should have told us about bomber

Clockwise, top left: US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) addresses senate health care legislation at the US Capitol in Washington; a US chopper in Iraq's Green Zone; Holiday travelers wait in line to go through security at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 26; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

« Previous

Page: 1

Next »

Fearless journalism
in your inbox every day

Sign up for our free newsletter

• • •