Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says that a slow assessment of information on Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is most likely what caused him to slip through security cracks and allegedly attempt to detonate an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound flight. (:46)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations explains the type of security list alleged Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was most likely on, and why he was able to board a U.S.-bound flight undetected. (:56)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says that firing government officials would be the wrong way to respond to the failed terror attack on Christmas Day. (:53)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says the response President Barack Obama got from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano that the nation’s security system did not fail following an attempted terrorist attack aboard a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day was not the response he was looking for. (:38)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says that the U.S. must accept that it will need to do several things to prevent future terrorists attacks aboard airplanes from occurring. (:25)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says new efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use more sophisticated means of targeting air travelers represent more effective methods of weeding out potential terrorists. (:50)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says he doesn’t believe that intense profiling of air travelers will work to prevent future terrorist attacks from being carried out aboard U.S.-bound flights. (:22)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says that forcing airline passengers to go through full body security scanners before they board might raise issues related to privacy and cost. However, says Alden, they very well could be effective at preventing future terror attacks on airplanes. (:30)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says that new measures just put in place by the Department of Homeland Security to require strict screening for air travelers from certain nations abroad would not have stopped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man who allegedly tried to detonate an explosive device aboard an airplane headed for Detroit on Christmas Day, from boarding his flight. (:28)
Ted Alden with the Council on Foreign Relations says a failure by the airport security officials to use available information to properly screen alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is what led to a potentially devastating incident on Christmas Day. Alden says rather than targeting travelers of certain ethnicities and who may be from certain countries, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should just focus on strengthening the nation’s current screening system. (:37)
