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In another operation last night, an Afghan-international security force searched a compound north of the village of Lakan, in Khowst. The joint force came under hostile fire from rifles and hand grenades and returned fire, killing some insurgents and wounding another. They also captured a Haqqani facilitator, believed responsible for delivering IED equipment, weapons and ammunition to militant In the Maiwand District of Kandahar today, an ISAF patrol spotted a truck moving at a high speed with its lights off. When the vehicle spotted the patrol, it stopped and the occupants jumped out and hide. The patrol moved in to investigate and found 239 15 kilo bags of opium in the vehicle. The occupants were detained and the drugs destroyed. IJC Operational Update, Jan. 7 An Afghan-international security force searched a compound west of the village of Akram Kaldy last night, in the Nawa district of Helmand after intelligence found insurgent activity in the area. During the search the assault force captured a Taliban facilitator suspected of manufacturing and placing IEDs and detained two other insurgents. One of the insurgents attacked a member of the joint force and was injured during the capture.
Christmas Day terrorist attack: have 9/11 reforms failed?
The comments were the first salvo in what’s likely to be an intense period of oversight of post-9/11 national security systems when Congress returns in January.
“There’s much to investigate here. It's amazing to me that an individual like this who was sending out so many signals could end up getting on a plane going to the US,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Secretary Napolitano backed off her original statements Monday. What worked was the department’s response to the incident, she explained. Within 90 minutes, all 128 planes already in the air from Europe were notified to take appropriate action. There was no panic.
"No secretary of homeland security would sit here and say that a system worked prior to this incident which allowed this individual to get on this plane," the secretary told Fox News on Monday.
Red flagsLooking back, analysts say there were many aspects of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian charged with trying to blow up the plane, that could have raised red flags. He had no checked luggage, and he paid for his ticket with cash. Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name had already surfaced on the National Counterterrorism Center’s database of known or suspected international terrorists, but that information was never made it to US airlines.
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