Terrorist Slips Through Security at Schiphol

On Friday, 25 December, terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Nigeria, attempted to blow up an airplane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. He and two others were wounded when he tried to set off an explosion. The Dutch National Coordinator in the Fight against Terrorism (NCTb) has announced that Abdulmutallab was in transit from Lagos at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and had gone through the security check before the flight according to the regular procedures of the airport.
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