We’re used to stories of terrorists getting away in extremely close calls because key pieces of information weren’t matched together soon enough. And it now looks like the arrest of Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad was almost a very similar case. Shahzad wasn’t just trying to fly to Dubai. He had actually already boarded a plane and it was taxiing on the runway. The air traffic control tower had to call the plane back to the terminal.
It’s straight out of a movie.
See our running updates of all the latest on the bombing investigation here.
Late Update: In the news conference currently underway, authorities say that he was flagged on the plane because his ticket was bought so late.
