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Proactive Helplessness
The Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bombing attempt, now known as the Christmas Day bombing attempt, shows us a situation in which all parties involved have remarkably failed. As someone who will be flying from New York to Arizona in early January, my optimism from going from 37° to 73° is disturbed by the knowledge that I am no safer in the air now than as I would have been on September 10th, 2001. The singular question asked about this incident is “Who messed up?” That list is longer than you think. Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, christmas, Delta Airlines, department of homeland security, DHS, flight 253, Jasper Schringa, Jetblue, new york times, northwest airlines, pentaerythritol tetranite, PETN, Schiphol, terrorism, transportation security administration, TSA, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, war on terror
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