Obama: Failures allowed terror suspect to board plane
Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab poses with fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, in 2001, while on a school trip to London. On Dec. 25, 2009, officials say Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a plane in Detroit.
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A "mix of human and systemic failure" allowed a Nigerian terror suspect to board a U.S.-bound airplane with explosives in his underwear, President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted on as it should have been, a systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that unacceptable," Obama said.
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