The dead include 2 children and 1 Rangers official. More than 80 people have been injured in the suicide bomb blast. Twenty one dead bodies have been brought to Civil Hospital Karachi whereas 4 dead bodies have also been brought to Jinnah Hospital. About 40 injured have been brought to Civil Hospital Karachi. Ten of these are said to be in a critical condition. There are about 40 injured, including 5 women, have been brought to Jinnah Hospital Karachi.

Unfortunately, no.

Can the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration, two agencies directly charged with protecting the lives of American passengers and airports, do more to stop the kind of attack authorities say 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted while on board Northwest Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day?

Absolutely, yes. ...

... That’s why Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv is considered one of the safest airports in the world. No flight of Israel’s national carrier, El Al, has been attacked in the last three decades.

The shooting death of Ali Habibi-Mousavi in Tehran has all the earmarks of a political assassination. The nephew of opposition leader and recent presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi reportedly had received death threats before he was shot in the heart by men believed to be security forces or pro-government militia. On Monday, Habibi-Mousavi’s family said his body was seized from the hospital, apparently to prevent them from holding a funeral that could ignite more protests—a cycle that served Islamic revolutionaries when they toppled the shah 30 years ago.

U.S. authorities are probing potential connections between Islamist extremists in Yemen and Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of igniting explosives on the airliner on Christmas Day. U.S. authorities say Mr. Abdulmutallab claimed he was given an explosive device and instructions for how to use it by al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Yemen are investigating any recent travel and contacts of his in Yemen.

With a stepped up presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, intelligence and security officials are now looking at other would-be hosts to Al Qaeda and its offshoot terrorist elements.

Near the top of that list is Yemen.

“Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war. That’s the danger we face,” said independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, head of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

While the incident is still being investigated, Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano appeared on national television and attempted to put a “happy face” on the incident. Secretary Napolitano told reporters that the Obama Administration is reacting to the terrorist threat and that “the system worked” in the case of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport incident.

Backtracking from a widely criticized assertion over the weekend, the secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said in a televised interview on Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not a success.

Ms. Napolitano said on the “Today” program on NBC that her remark on Sunday that the system worked had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said on the program. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.

Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen has grown in the past year and Washington has said a Nigerian who tried to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day said he had help from al Qaeda militants in Yemen, where the government is battling instability.

The United States and Yemen’s neighbor Saudi Arabia fear al Qaeda will use instability in the country to carry out attacks in the world’s main oil exporting region and beyond.

The truth is that Gerry Adams has spent the past two decades protecting his brother by covering up for his unspeakable crimes and persuading his niece to keep quiet about it - to ‘keep it in the family’ - in order to protect his own skin.

Yesterday, appalled rape campaigners said Adams could have ended his niece’s quest for justice years ago had he spoken out earlier. Yet he chose not to, for the sake of his political career.