So, with the Christmas terrorist attack winding its way out of news cycles, there have been plenty of musings on the intelligence failure that prevented the proper authorities from placing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a "No Fly" list. Given the guy was ratted out by his own father, it does seem like a rather glaring mistake.
As Abdulmutallab Sr. was a "prominent Nigerian banker," perhaps the warning was lost when followed by his request for "assistance to transfer the sum of $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars)" into their bank accounts?
Yah, okay, I get it's no laughing matter, but not a single Nigerian mail scam joke?
A shout out to Alice Texas for the head scratch....
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