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Security System Failed, Acknowledges Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano

World News Update by EQUITIES Magazine

After her earlier remarks were “taken out of context”, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today, “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”

 

After the near disaster--Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s thwarted bombing on Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit—President Obama ordered a review of the two major plans of aviation security: watch lists and detection equipment at airport checkpoints.

 

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