Download or read book Attempted Terrorist Attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 written by Saxby Chambliss and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Dec. 25, 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to detonate a concealed non-metallic device containing the explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, MI, as the plane was descending into the Detroit Airport. This is an unclassified summary of info. gathered on Intelligence from the following agencies: Office of the Dir. of Nat. Intell. (ODNI); Nat. Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); CIA; NSA; FBI; Dept. of State; DHS, TSA, CBP, and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A). The Committee found that there were systematic failures across the Intelligence Community, which contributed to the failure to identify the threat posed by Abdulmutallab.