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| State Dept. Mending Ways After Xmas Day Incident |
| 2010-01-13 |
| Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, acknowledged last week at a news conference that State Department officials made two key errors in the initial reporting about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. They misspelled his name -- "a one-letter difference," an intelligence official said -- in filing their first report Nov. 20, the day after Umau Mutallab, a Nigerian banker, described his concerns about his son. And they didn't officially look for Abdulmutallab in a department database of U.S. visa-holders. Abdulmutallab, Abdulmutalab, there's no real difference between these spellings, except to a computer |
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