Terror Suspect Radicalized in Britain

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a terror suspect in the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines passenger jet coming from Amsterdam and arriving in Detroit on Christmas Day was found to have been radicalized in Britain. A CNN story reports:

AbdulMutallab had been flagged by federal agents who were getting ready to meet his plane when it landed in Detroit, according to a U.S. official briefed on the investigation into the botched Christmas Day terrorist attack.

Al-Alemi emphasized at Thursday's news conference that AbdulMutallab lived in Yemen, but did not pick up his radical views there, instead saying that happen when he resided in Britain between 2005 and 2008.

This attempted terrorist attack attack shows that even though we have drastically increased our security around airports, our system is not perfect. It is impressive that this guy was able to get that far considering the security that we have to get through when traveling through airports. Hopefully we will be better able to prevent things like this from happening, although it is assured that attempts like this will happen in the future.