Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport

By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com
December 26, 2009, 2:22PM
Kurt HaskellKurt Haskell’s boarding pass for NWA Flight 253

Update: Dutch police investigating report of accomplice in Northwest Flight 235 terror plotA Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

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Obama Seeks to Assure U.S. as “Qaeda Group” Stakes Claim to Christmas Terror Plot

By PETER BAKER, ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
Published: December 28, 2009
HONOLULU — President Obama emerged from Hawaiian seclusion on Monday to try to quell gathering criticism of his administration’s handling of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner as a branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.

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Lieberman: Yemen is ‘tomorrow’s war’ if pre-emptive action not taken

By Jordan Fabian - 12/27/09 09:53 AM ET

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) Sunday said that Yemen could be the ground of America’s next overseas war if Washington does not take preemptive action to root out al-Qaeda interests there.
Lieberman, who helms the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the [...]

U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen

ERIC SCHMITT and ROBERT F. WORTH
The New York Times
December 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, [...]