intelligence

By Kathleen Someah |1.4.2010

Peril in Seat 19A

On Christmas day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Northwester Airlines flight 253, headed for Detroit, with more than clothes and toiletries. He carried Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, (PETN), among the most powerful explosives in the world. Were it not for a faulty syringe detonator, 300 innocent passengers and flight crew would have died. It has been eight years since ...