ABC's Jake Tapper tweets:
new incident today. TSA says: "Northwest Airlines alerted TSA to a disruptive passenger on board flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit..."According to a tweet by Breaking News:
(2)"The flight landed safely at Detroit International Airport at approximately 12:35pm est without incident..."
(3) "The aircraft has been moved to a remote location for additional screening. ...passenger is now in custody."
The man in custody locked himself in the restroom prior to the flight's landing and became belligerent when asked to come out - NBCGotta go gotta go gotta go right now... Sorry.
In other news, I'd read yesterday, and read again today, that the father of yesterday's terrorist warned the US that the son was trouble. But somehow he was still permitted on the plane:
But the education he sought was of a different sort: Nigerian officials say his interest in extremist Islam prompted his father to warn U.S. authorities. As Abdulmutallab was being escorted in handcuffs off the Detroit-bound airliner he attempted to blow up on Christmas Day, he told U.S. officials that he had sought extremist education at an Islamist hotbed in Yemen.The Post also reports:
Some, but not all, information from TIDE is transferred to the FBI-maintained Terrorist Screening Data Base (TSDB), from which consular, border and airline watch lists are drawn. The Transportation Security Administration has a "no-fly" list of about 4,000 people who are prohibited from boarding any domestic or U.S.-bound aircraft. A separate list of about 14,000 "selectees" require additional scrutiny but are not banned from flying.
Abdulmutallab's name never made it past the TIDE database. "A TIDE record on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was created in November 2009," one administration official said, but "there was insufficient information available on the subject at that time to include him in the TSDB or its 'no fly' or 'selectee' lists."
