The Nigerian man accused in the failed Detroit airliner bombing plot was also placed on an official watch list to prevent him from re-entering Britain.
As criticism mounted that security lapses had led to a brush with disaster, President Obama ordered a review of the two major planks of the aviation security system.
President Hamid Karzai and senior NATO officials are at odds over whether civilians or Taliban insurgents were killed in a Sunday operation by Afghan and U.S. forces.