Somalia arrested potential underwear bomber last month

AP reports that the man was arrested trying to board a plane for a domestic flight with a syringe and white power similar to that used by the Detroit underwear bomber. He was stopped by airport security officals from teh African Union forces.

This news does raise a question about how a primitive violence racked place like Somalia can do a better job of screening passengers than was done with our own underwear bomber.

CNN has more on the Somali arrest. The perp is still in custody and presumably would be available for interrogation which makes him different from the underwear bomber whose lawyer has told him to quit talking. It would also be interesting to get an analysis of the chemicals he was trying to get on board.

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  1. Anonymous Democrat11:59 PM

    Well -- for one thing the Somali perpetrator smelled of amonia. We also don't know if he was acting nervous, sweating a lot, etc. The chemical the Nigerian had was odorless, and in all the pictures we've seen of him, he looks either depressed or without emotion.

    What I am saying is, there are circumstances we don't know about. From the eyewitness account posted on huffingtonpost under Roey Rosenblith, it seems the Dutch authorities did do quite a bit of screening.

    That is not to say there wasn't some negligence; certainly there is a big problem in the U.S. with getting people on the no-fly list and information sharing between agecies such as the FBI, CIA and NSA. But what I am saying is there is a lot more to this story.

    The Nigerian has already confessed, by the way.

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