The latest U.N.sanctions authorize the inspection of any suspicious cargo on ships or planes bound for Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Somehow,somewhere,security officials did not pick up on the information at their disposal that allowed an individual on a security watch list onto a plane bound for the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

On Saturday,President Obama said an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently trained and equipped the Nigerian man accused in the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

And that war is against the kind of terrorism that authorities say a Nigerian man attempted when he allegedly tried to bomb a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

The most recent threat nearly got away. The 30-year-old Pakistani American was on board this flight, bound for Dubai when pilots heard this from Air Traffic Control: Federal agents stopped the flight and removed Shahzad, who managed to board the airplane despite being placed on a "no-fly" list hours before.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06