The preflight intelligence in suspected bomb plot

The preflight intelligence Here are some key pieces of information known to U.S. intelligence officials before the failed Christmas Day bombing attack that, they said, should have kept suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab off a U.S.-bound jetliner:* The United States had electronic intercepts linking an individual with the partial name Umar Farouk to Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.* The National Security Agency had learned that the Yemeni group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was planning an operation using a Nigerian.* Abdulmutallab’s father warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that his son might have gone to Yemen and had become increasingly radicalized.* The suspect had bought a round-trip ticket with cash and boarded his Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight without any luggage.Source: Los Angeles Times