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December 31, 2009
Dutch to Use Full-Body Scanners on Flights to U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/europe/31terror.html
By JACK HEALY

The major international airport of the Netherlands will begin using
full-body scanners on passengers flying to the United States to prevent a
recurrence of the security breach that allowed a would-be bomber to
smuggle explosives onto a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas
Day, the Dutch authorities said Wednesday.

The new measures were announced as the Dutch interior minister discussed
the government’s early investigation into the thwarted bombing and after
Washington indicated its support of the scanners.

At a news conference at The Hague in the Netherlands the interior
minister, Guusje Ter Horst, characterized preparations for the attack as
professional but its execution as amateurish, according to The Associated
Press.

“It is not exaggerating to say the world has escaped a disaster,” Ms. Ter
Horst said. Dutch officials said the accused bomber, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, had raised no red flags as he
arrived in Amsterdam from Nigeria and transferred to his Detroit-bound
flight at Schiphol Airport. He arrived at 5:37 a.m. on Dec. 25, passed
through security screening at a metal detector without setting off any
alarms and departed for the United States at 8:55 a.m.

He had a visa to enter the United States, and he presented a valid
Nigerian passport as he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253. A report by
the Dutch Justice Ministry report said Mr. Abdulmutallab was traveling on
a round-trip ticket purchased in Ghana.

Ms. Ter Horst said the explosives used in the attack appeared to be
professionally made, and that it appeared they had been given to Mr.
Abdulmutallab.

In a letter to the Dutch Parliament posted on the counterterrorism
office’s Web site, Ms. Ter Horst said the attack demonstrated “a fairly
professional approach, comparable to earlier attempted attacks against
civil aviation,” referring to the thwarted 2001 attack by the “shoe
bomber,” Richard Reid.

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