Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who used an underwear bomb in a failed attempt to blow up an airplane flying into Detroit, “previously had been in Yemen, where he had contact with the branch of bin Laden’s group called al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Earlier intelligence had focused solely on that branch conducting terrorist attacks inside Yemen.” According to chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan’s January 7, 2010 report: ” ‘We did not pay sufficient attention to them being able to send an attacker against us.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 341