DETROIT, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Airline terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was released from a Michigan hospital Sunday, officials said.
LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- An explosives expert in London says PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, is an ideal explosive for terrorists because it is powerful and hard to detect.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. system for safeguarding airliners from terrorist attacks did not work and disaster was only narrowly avoided last week, a U.S. lawmaker said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Security has been tightened at airports worldwide after a passenger arriving in the United States detonated an incendiary device, a top U.S. official says.
ATLANTA, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The father of Nigerian terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab says he contacted the U.S. Embassy months ago warning of his son's radicalism.
ATLANTA, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A Dutch passenger told of how he helped subdue the 23-year-old Nigerian man charged with trying to take down a Detroit-bound airliner with explosives.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound plane said an al-Qaida bomb expert provided explosive chemicals, The New York Times reports.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Members of Congress say they plan to investigate a Nigerian's attempt to bring down a U.S. jetliner with an explosive device.
LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A 23-year-old Nigerian was charged by federal authorities Saturday with trying to bring down a Northwest Airlines jetliner as it approached Detroit.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Airline passengers took counterterrorism security into their own hands in the Christmas Day incident aboard a Northwest Airlines flight, officials said.
