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Page last updated at 22:58 GMT, Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Barack Obama admits US bomb plot failures

US security agencies had sufficient intelligence about a plot to blow up a plane but failed to act, the US president has said.

President Barack Obama said ''the intelligence community had failed to connect the dots''.

Mark Mardell reports from Washington.

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