So the Nigerian air terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been to the U.S. in the past two years.
His father, the head of a Nigerian bank, had reportedly warned the U.S. of his son's extremism.
But in spite of that, the New York Times reports,
It was unclear whether Mr. Abdulmutallab's name was entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, which includes people with known or suspected contact or ties to a terrorist or terrorist organization. That list is maintained by the United States National Counterterrorism Center. It includes about 550,000 names.
Those people, however, are not necessarily placed on the federal government's so-called no-fly list, which prohibits persons entering the United States because of known or suspected terrorists links. Mr. Abdulmutallab was not on that list, federal officials say. ....
Mr. Abdulmutallab was issued a regular visitor's visa by the United States Embassy in London in June 2008, according to the senior administration official. There was no "derogatory information available" on him at the time he applied, and he was granted a two-year visa, which is still valid, the official said.
Shouldn't his father's expressed concerns to U.S. officials at least have prompted an interview or a cancelling of his 2 year visa? Did it not because he was attending a London university and residing in Dubai? And isn't Obama's White House counterterrorism advisor the former head of NCTC, that maintains the list that seems to miss such suspects, while the no-fly list reportedly has a gazillion false hits? And the FAA response is passengers can't move around the last hour of international flights? How ridiculous is that? What, because the problem was that he got high explosives through that he didn't try to ignite until the last hour of the flight? Maybe because he was watching the movie? And wasn't it the other passengers moving around that saved the day?
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