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King seeks info on terror suspect to plug security holes

Rep. Peter King asks questions during the House

Photo credit: Bloomberg | Rep. Peter King asks questions during the House Homeland Security Committee in Washington, D.C. (Dec. 3, 2009)

Rep. Peter King said Monday he wants to know what the father of the Detroit terror suspect told U.S. Embassy officials in Nigeria about his son's embrace of radical Islam and what the State Department did next.

King said the government file on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who boarded an international flight to Detroit with explosives despite being on a terrorism watch list, could...

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