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Old 9th Feb 2016, 22:53
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WSJ article - Feb 9, 2016

Somali Plane Revelations Add to Fears of Insider Attacks - WSJ

From the above article:

Minister says an aviation worker was involved in Daallo Airlines attack

By Robert Wall and Heidi Vogt
Updated Feb. 9, 2016 5:42 p.m. ET
LONDON—Somalia’s transport minister on Tuesday said that an employee at the country’s civil aviation office aided the bombing of a Djibouti-bound plane last week, reinforcing concern among security experts that insider attacks are among the biggest threats to commercial flights.
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Surveillance footage released by Somali officials over the weekend purports to show two men walking together through the airport terminal. One of the men takes an item from under his arm and passes it to a third man, walking in the opposite direction.

Somalia’s minister for transport and aviation, Ali Jama Jangali, Tuesday said that one of the men shown in the security camera footage was an airport employee who had worked “for a number of years” in the civil aviation office. “When he was recruited and how he was recruited, at what point he started working with them, all that is under investigation,” Mr. Jangali said. The other man in the video—the one who actually handed off the laptop—wasn't an airport employee, he said.
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Somalia’s transport minister Mr. Jangali acknowledged there were “lapses” and “negligence,” though he did not provide details. “We are trying to ensure that those lapses never happen again,” he said.

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