Could it be that not every airline was given emergency notification that NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad had been put on the no fly list?
Newsweek’s DeClassified blog says YES.
It reports that the FBI asked Homeland Security officials to limit the notification to a select number of airlines out of concern that a blanket notification might lead to media leaks, which had already caused problems for the probe.
Shahzad was able to board an Emirates airline plane to Dubai at JFK Airport, but was pulled off before it could take off after a federal Customs and Border Protection agents noticed the name on the no fly list.
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