“Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab” on The Daily Caller

Passengers using Heathrow and Manchester airports have been told that from today they will not be allowed to board their flights if they refuse to submit to full-body scans. (more)

In a second round of hearings on the attempted Christmas day airline bombing, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) opened with a sympathetic defense of National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s candidness in last week’s hearing. (more)

Two top senators urged the Obama administration on Monday to transfer the suspect in the failed Christmas Day airline bombing to the Pentagon, blasting the Justice Department for reading him his Miranda rights and treating him like a common criminal. (more)

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Police questioned a passenger on a small commercial plane that flew from Chicago to a northern Michigan resort town on Friday after the crew reported he was acting suspiciously. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — All airlines flying to the United States or within the country were told Thursday to prepare for even tighter security because of the al-Qaida threat from Yemen, a law enforcement official said. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be Christmas Day bomber boarded his flight in Amsterdam to frigid Detroit with no coat — perhaps the final warning sign that went unnoticed leading up to what could have been a catastrophic terrorist attack, lawmakers were told. (more)

Kurt Haskell’s eyes were locked on the seatback monitor in front of him when the words of a passing flight attendant caught his attention. (more)

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s foreign minister says an upcoming international conference on combatting al-Qaida in his country should not address the nation’s other internal conflicts or issues of human rights and corruption. (more)

The chance to secure crucial information about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen was lost because the Obama administration decided to charge and prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, critics say. He is said to have reduced his co-operation with FBI interrogators on the advice of his government-appointed defence counsel. (more)

As President Obama plans a surge of new air marshals to protect U.S. flights, current and former agents speak out—about burnout, high turnover, and an agency in disarray. (more)

More than 20 Republican senators wrote a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday objecting to the administration’s decision to try terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in civilian courts. (more)