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Airline Bombing Suspect Flagged For Check At Landing
The 23-year-old Nigerian man charged in an attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day had been flagged to be checked when the plane landed in Detroit.
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WASHINGTON (January 7, 2010)--As the White House prepared Thursday to release a preliminary report on the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, there was word that security officials had flagged the name of the bombing suspect after he was already on his way.
U.S. officials say the Nigerian man was supposed to get extra screening once he arrived, because of his apparent ties to extremists.
Customs and Border Protection officials screen passengers against terrorist watch lists before international flights leave for the U.S., and then check names against a different database while the flight is in the air.
It was during this second check that officials flagged the alleged bomber.
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