>>Meanwhile, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a man tried to board a commercial airliner in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe in a case bearing chilling similarities to the Detroit airliner plot.

The Somali man - whose name has not yet been released - was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the Nov. 13 Daallo Airlines flight took off. It had been scheduled to travel from Mogadishu to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai. A Somali police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise, said the suspect is in Somali custody.<<

Gee, you think "intel" would be expecting the pantsbomber..

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AIRLINER_ATTACK?SITE=CAANR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

>>"If you want to detonate it, you have to do that another way than he did. That is why we talk about amateurism," Ter Horst said.<<

Actually its the US that is amateurish... the bomber only needed to practice more.