Breaking News: Obama cites intelligence failures in airline plot

Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:26:22 -0600

WASHINGTON - President Obama said today that the nation faces "a
challenge of the utmost urgency" in the face of continued al-Qaeda
attempts to "kill Americans." Speaking on the attempted airline
bombing plot on Christmas Day, Obama also asserted that the government
had enough information to foil the attempt, but the intelligence
community "failed to connect the dots." Obama also said he was
suspending the transfer of Guantanamo detainees from Yemen. The attack
raised concerns about Yemen, because the suspect claimed to have been
acting on instructions from al-Qaeda operatives there.