December 2009 Christmas "underwear Bomber" Attack Brings Déjà Vu To TSA's 2003 Security Lapses
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In July 2003, MacLean was a federal air marshal in good standing, part of the thin blue line sent to the skies in the wake of 9/11. He had been called into his Las Vegas field office for a chilling, unprecedented, face-to-face emergency threat briefing: An al-Qaida suicide plan would exploit airport security loopholes abroad by allowing terrorists to fly from countries with less-stringent screening (such as, say, Nigeria) to airports in Europe (such as, say, Amsterdam), where they would escape further security screening. Thus armed with weapons/explosives, the terrorists would catch connecting flights to their final destinations in the states or Europe -- and exact their bloody revenge. |
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