Thaindian News

Washington DC, Jan 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism John Brennan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the security breakdown in the failed bombing of the Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day was different than the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. “It’s not like 9/11,” Brennan said, adding that the “system didn’t work as it should have” due to “lapses” and “human error.”

He revealed that there was no effort at all to conceal any kind of information at all. He said this in reference to the well-chronicled competition and on-going one-upmanship wars between the various security agencies prior to the 2001 attacks that were later blamed for the failure to prevent them.

“There is no smoking gun piece of intelligence out there,” Brennan said of the failed Christmas bombing, allegedly by a Nigerian man who boarded the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan with explosives in his underwear.

Meanwhile prior to this the Nigerian Senate had already condemned the flight-bombing attempt after a 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bomb a Northwest flight 253, which was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. But it can certainly be termed as a Christmas miracle, because he wasn’t successful due to quick reflexes by the crew and the passengers, and also due to a faulty detonator. After this unsuccessful bombing attempt, concerns about airline safety are at an all time high and stricter restrictions are expected soon.

The statement also asked the world not to generalize his behavior as all the other Nigerians are not as violent as him. They are law-abiding Nigerians who are decent and respectable international citizens wherever they are, according to the statement.