Re: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
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American officials say there were two additional incidents, in Minneapolis and in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in which people on the no-fly list were denied boarding, questioned and then allowed to leave the airport without being detained.
[IMG]http://a.abcnews.com/images/News/ap_253_2_100122_mn.jpg[/IMG]Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of attempting to bring down Northwest flight 253 with an "underwear bomb" on Dec. 25, 2009. Abdulmutallab told officials that others like him had trained with him in Yemen.
(J.P. Karas/AP Photo)
"What we don't know is whether this is because everyone is doing a better job of enforcing the no-fly list, or because the list has been expanded, or because the terrorists are attempting to probe our security," said [URL="http://abcnew.go.com/"]ABC News[/URL] Clarke.
A senior U.S. official said the most likely explanation involved the recent expansion of the no-fly list to include more possible terror suspects.
At the same time, U.S. law enforcement agencies have quietly begun an intense and widespread effort to investigate [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/muslim-american-convicts-yemen-pose-threat/story?id=9602228"]any American resident who traveled to Yemen[/URL] in recent months or who was in contact with the radical cleric Anwar Awlaki, who authorities believe serves as an al Qaeda recruiter.
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Canadian authorities are also running down leads of any Canadian citizens who have traveled to Yemen, a senior official there said.
Awlaki, an American citizen who lives in Yemen, has been connected by authorities to the accused Northwest bomber, the accused shooter at Fort Hood and several other men convicted of terrorist activity in the United States and Canada.
As part of the additional scrutiny, federal agents are conducting extensive background checks on every passenger who flew to Detroit on the Northwest flight in case one of them might have been sent as a "spotter" on the mission.
Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria.
[COLOR=Red][B]Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab "did not get cold feet." [/B][/COLOR]