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Confused about whether any ex-Gitmo captives were actually involved in the Xmas Bomber plot? Justin Elliott gives us the bottom line on what we really know.
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I tend to agree that if a young person gets on an international flight, not only with no checked luggage but no carry ons that suggest he plans on ever getting off the plane, that is sort of a tip off. But in these cases, I always wonder: Isn’t it or why isn’t it part of terrorist best practices to just bring some phony luggage? With all the trouble and subterfuge terrorists have to go to get stuff on planes, this seems fairly straightforward. This isn’t a criticism of the policies. And obviously Abdulmutallab didn’t do this. But in cases like this, I always do wonder: why?
Nick Ayers, the executive director of the Republican Governors Association, is apologizing for a tweet this morning poking fun at New York Gov. David Paterson’s blindness.
I’m not sure I agree. But TPM Reader DR thinks that a lot of the things we’re treating as obvious red flags with the Xmas bomber really aren’t red flags at all …
I have to respond to the line of argumentation made by some of your readers and elsewhere in the blogosphere regarding supposedly missed signals in the underwear bomber case. While I can appreciate that the whole profile may be more telling than the sum of its parts, some of the “warning signs” being cited should not really raise much suspicion. You posted another reader’s list of “warning signs”:
1. Passenger’s name: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
2. One-way ticket from Yemen to Detroit
3. Ticket paid for with $3,000 cash
4. Passenger has no luggage
Former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), a recent New York transplant, is reportedly considering a primary run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.