Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot
“An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

“This is not the first time this group has targeted us,” Obama said, reporting on some of the findings of an administration review into how intelligence agencies failed to prevent Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253.”

Looks like Panetta is taking the fall for this one.

But at least the president is waking up to the obvious, that this was a TERRORIST attack.
Are the terrorists themselves more reliable than our own government:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091228/ap_on_re_us/us_airliner_attack

Al-Qaida in Yemen claims attack on US airliner
” Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen.”