Obama wants answers after botched terror attack
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LOLITA C. BALDOR PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writers HONOLULU
President Barack Obama is demanding answers on why information was never pieced together by the U.S. intelligence community to trigger red flags about an alleged terrorist and possibly prevent his botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner. Administration officials are poring over reams of data, looking for fai l ings that al lowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected ties to al-Qaida, to board the Northwest Airlines flight from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam. Obama's criticism...
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