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Good evening. I’m Gwen Eiffel. President Obama made his first public statement about the failed plot to blow up an airplane and said the US would keep up the pressure on terrorists. And I’m Margaret Warner. On the News Hour tonight, the president outlined stepped-up security measures for air passengers. How did the bomber get through security? And what can be done to prevent another attack? We’ll sort it out.
And authorities in Iran arrested key opposition figures after weekend protest that killed at least eight. A different angle on the health care debate. Rais Farres has the story from south of the US border. Thousands of Americans who can’t afford the health care they need, are heading abroad in search of it. I’ll have report from Mexico. That’s all I had on tonight’s PBS News Hour. Major funding for the PBS News Hour has been provided by Bank of America, BNSF Railway.
The US government launched a top to bottom search for answers after a would-be bomber tried to destroy a US airliner on Christmas day. But everyday has brought new questions, and today a claim of responsibility. The president interrupted a Christmas holiday vacation in Hawaii to offer his first public remarks on the attempt to bring Northwest Airlines flight 253 down. “And a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism. And we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Obama confirmed the government is reviewing screening procedures as well as its watch list system shortly before he spoke the group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attempt saying in an Internet posting that it came in response to US strikes at its members in Yemen. In his remarks today, president Obama vowed to continue hunting Al Qaeda. “The United States will more….do more than simply strengthen our defenses. We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us whether they’re from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia, or anywhere where they’re plotting attacks against the US homeland.”
What’s known so far, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab bought his ticket with $2800 in cash on December 16th, he checked no bags, he boarded the plane in Lagos and cleared security there as well as in Amsterdam where the flight made a stopover. The jet was on final approach to Detroit when Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to ignite explosives concealed under his clothing.