Not enough data to put suspect on no-fly list - U.S. official

27/12/2009 - 0:32

KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - The U.S. government created a record on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in November 2009 in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, the intelligence community's central repository of information on known and suspected international terrorists, but there was not enough negative information to put him on a no-fly list, a U.S. administration official said on Saturday.

"There was insufficient derogatory information available on the subject at that time" to include him on a no-fly list, the official said on condition of anonymity. "Thus, he was not watchlisted as of 25 December 2009."

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Eric Walsh)