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Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab suffered extensive burns and was arrested. The passengers, two of whom suffered minor injuries, disembarked safely from the aircraft for Delta Air Lines, which had left Amsterdam.
"We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," said a White House official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
President Barack Obama is vacationing in Hawaii and was monitoring the situation after conferring with officials of National Security and National Security Council.
Representative Peter King of New York, the Republican in the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the explosive device was "quite sophisticated".
Federal authorities identified the man as Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab, according to The New York Times and Washington Post. ABC News and NBC News reported that he attended the University College London, where he studied engineering.
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