Tuesday, 29 December 2009
BBC News
US President Barack Obama has said it is clear a systemic failure occurred over the attempted plot to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day.
Mr Obama said he considered the failures in intelligence and security systems to be "totally unacceptable".
The US needed to learn from the incident and act quickly to fix flaws in the system, he said.
A Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up the plane as it came in to land was restrained by passengers.
The 23-year-old allegedly tried detonate explosives in his underwear.
There were nearly 300 people aboard the plane.
In a blunt statement, Mr Obama said he had asked for initial findings from two reviews into the incident to be presented to him on Thursday, with more comprehensive reports following within weeks.
He said that weeks ago information had been passed to the US intelligence community about the suspect weeks ago but had not been effectively distributed.
"We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix flaws in the system," Mr Obama said.
The remarks were the president's second public statement on the incident in two days.
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