Downing Street blunders over Detroit plane bomber
Terrorism • January 2010 • Views: 467
Downing Street was today forced to retreat from its claim that MI5 warned US intelligence over the alleged Christmas Day plane bomber – in the face of a blunt denial from America.
No 10 had ignored usual diplomatic protocols by disclosing that it shared intelligence information with the US about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the British-educated Nigerian who tried to blow up a plane bound for Detroit.
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