Northwest Flight 253, heading to Detroit, is the flight that was under attack on Friday, Dec. 25.
Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was able to bring aboard a two-part concoction of PETN and possibly a glycol-based liquid explosive. Fortunately, there was some kind of malfunction that occurred that didn't allow for a full detonation.
According to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, flying is "very, very safe."
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In November, Abdulmutallab had been placed in a database of more than 500,000 names of people suspected of terrorist ties. But officials say there was not enough information about his terror activity that would have placed him on a watch list that could have kept him from flying. Officials said he came to the attention of U.S. intelligence last month when his father, a prominent Nigerian banker, reported to the American Embassy in Nigeria about his son's increasingly extremist views.
It is clear that the enemies of this country are not at all deterred when it comes to the security this nation currently has in place.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced a review of air safety on two broad fronts, saying the government will investigate its systems for placing suspicious travelers on watch lists and for detecting explosives before passengers board flights.
I'm all for a review but, it's the people running the government that I don't trust. Sure, there will be more searching but, of who? More old ladies? More white men? When is someone going to stand up and say, "Hey, we need to racially profile!" To me, of what I've witnessed, it doesn't seem as though we are concerned about actually safety as much as we are not hurting anyone's feelings, or offending other cultures.
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