Well, the news is shifting, and now it's not entirely clear if the suspect was a lone wolf, rather than having ties to Al Qaeda. And it's not clear what kind of incendiary device he really had. Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic just re-tweeted the following update:
RT @NYCAviation "CNN passenger interview: Heard pop like champagne cork, moments later saw flames shooting out of suspect's crotch."What was your first clue?
Ambinder just Tweeted the following - it better not be true that we're relying on Nigerian security to protect our lives when we fly Northwest:
So -- seems like the guy was screened in Lagos, arrived in AMS and didn't go through 2nd customs screening there like he would have in the US.
