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Wed 01 Jan 2010US just doesn't get it about motivation for suicide attacks
OPINION:Barack Obama says US intelligence fails to ‘connect the dots’ to prevent terror attacks. America itself fails to connect the dots that help explain motive, writes LARA MARLOWE
IN AMERICA, 2010 has been dominated so far by the aftermath of the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253. Amid the flurry of recriminations and speeches, it was reported that a state department official “misspelled” the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who attempted to bring down the aircraft with explosives sewn into his underwear, thus preventing data concerning him and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from being correlated.
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