Numerous news media outlets reported that on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, said the system to protect air travel worked.
Then on Monday she said the system aimed at keeping air travel secure failed when a Nigerian man who was suspected of ties to militants in Yemen managed to smuggle explosives aboard a flight from Europe to the U.S.
Did it work or failed? It Failed.
A prominent Nigerian banker and former government official telephoned the American Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, and said that his son had developed radical Islamic views, had disappeared, and might have traveled to Yemen.
Why U.S. Embassy officials did not revoke the NW Flight 253 Nigerian bomber’s visa to enter the United States, which was good until June 2010, is beyond belief.
Some U.S. government officials that have barred the phrase “war on terror” have now acknowledged that a failed Christmas day bomb attack on The NW 253 flight was a terrorist act.
The DHS, Transportation Security Agency, response was to increase body searches and more baggage screening at U.S. Airports. This is but a band aid on a major disaster waiting to happen.
What has to be done: The opposition to profiling has got to stop: the Michigan State Police sent out their Seven Signs of Terrorism, DHS has their Eight Signs of Terrorism and the Israeli military has 11 Signs of a Terrorist.
The Nigerian bomber matched a number of the Israeli signs of a terrorist.
