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The One-Way Ticket Myth

by David Kurtz
01.11.10 | 4:42 am

The would-be Christmas Day bomber had a one-way ticket from Nigeria to Detroit, right?

Wrong.

But that bit of what now appears to be bad information has circulated far and wide and become ingrained in the conventional wisdom about the failed attack.

Justin Elliott does the forensics on the one-way ticket myth.

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