Christmas Day
Dutch to use full body scanners for US-bound flights
December 30, 2009Interior Minister Guusje Ter Horst says the body scanners will be in place within three weeks. The Dutch Interior Minister says that all passengers flying to the United States from the Netherlands will have to pass through a full body scan. The move...
Christmas Terror: More 'Security Measures' or More 'Common Sense'?
December 29, 2009By Tawfik Hamid On Christmas day, a man identified as a young wealthy elite Nigerian Muslim (Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab), with possible links to Islamic Radical groups, set off an explosive device in a failed terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines...
Barack Obama: US doing everything to protect Americans
December 29, 2009President says a full investigation has been launched into attempted Christmas Day attack on an American airliner. U.S. President Barack Obama says those responsible for the attempted Christmas Day attack on an American airliner will be held to account...
Nigerian bomber warns: I’m the first of many
December 29, 2009Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who set himself alight in a packed Airbus approaching Detroit on Christmas Day, bought his one-way ticket from a KLM office in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, on December 16. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian...
Al-Qaeda wing claims failed attack on U.S. plane
December 29, 2009A regional wing of Al-Qaeda said it was behind the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. passenger plane, which was meant to avenge U.S. attacks on the group in Yemen, according to a web statement posted today. The group said it had provided the...
Christmas dispute underscores Orthodox Church's mounting clout
December 24, 2009By Claire Bigg When, exactly, is Christmas Day? The answer may seem evident to many, but in Moldova this question has been spoiling the seasonal cheer for almost two decades. There are three kinds of Christmas revelers in that small nation on...
Finally, we called it Christmas again
December 22, 2009By Eugen Tomiuc "I can't stand this anymore," she said. I looked around, at the bleak platform, at the mass of gray, drab-looking people, at the old train pulling into the station with a long screech. It was freezing cold, and the somber...