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"Systemic failure" in botched plane attack - Obama


    KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that it was clear a "systemic failure" had occurred in connection with the failed attack on a Detroit-bound passenger plane on Christmas Day.

    "When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred and I consider that totally unacceptable," he said.