Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was put on the U.S government’s no-fly list at approximately 12:30 p.m. Monday, and airlines were notified of the change three minutes later. At about 3 p.m. the FBI began surveilling Shahzad at his Connecticut apartment. And yet, several hours later — after somehow eluding the FBI surveillance team — he received a boarding pass for a flight from JFK to Dubai and made it on board before he was stopped. How’d that happen?
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