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"The party wants to know how it was possible to smuggle explosives on board a plane at Schipol.".......How? 1. He had help from associates who work at the airport. 2. Not performing 100% checks at the terminals. A representative stated "A Schiphol representative said the airport does not expect the hundred-percent checks to cause too many problems because Saturday is a quiet day for travelling." This statement means the passenger, who carried the materials on board the airplane was not checked. Why did he get on board the flight? Because the airport administration at Schipol was more concerned with expediting the passengers through the airport. They accelerated the process of security to the point that they failed in their obligations to protect the public. { Unar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was listed in a US database of suspicious persons. Even though he boarded in Africa, the flight manifest should have been put into an international database and shared with other airlines. Before, his flight from Amsterdam to the US, the Dutch should have submitted and ran all manisifests, leaving the Netherlands, to the approriate countries. { The Dutch failed at their responsibilities to the public because they wanted to quickly moved people through Schipol and look at the potential threat they let through for doing so. Whats so difficult in checking and sharing flight manifests? Mutallab was a suspicious person.