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Barack Obama admits US bomb plot failures

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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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