US intelligence agencies did not miss a “smoking gun” that could have prevented an alleged attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser said today.

THE Netherlands announced yesterday it will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, issuing a report that called the failed Christmas Day airline bombing a “professional” terror attack.

Security services were warned of a terrorist bomb plot weeks before the failed Christmas Day airliner attack, it was claimed today.

The Netherlands announced today it will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, issuing a report that called the failed Christmas Day airline bombing a “professional” terror attack.