Jasper Schuringa, a 32-year-old film maker from Amsterdam, is being lauded as the primary hero after he led the charge to subdue would-be terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Northwest flight 253 yesterday. Now, CNN has a fascinating interview with Schuringa, in which he describes the fire and tells how he subdued the suspect. Video inside!

Here’s a new, scary development in yesterday’s attempted terrorist attack on Northwest airlines flight by 23-year-old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: he may have had ties to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, according to an AFP report via Politico’s Playbook. Peter Hoekstra, the most senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has a theory.

As news broke yesterday and last night about the attempted terror attack, CNN stayed live the longest, until 11pmET, FNC the 2nd longest and MSNBC stayed in doc block programming for the majority of the night.

And the person who anchored CNN’s coverage until the end, Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi, was nearly universally praised on Twitter – with the opportunity potentially signaling bigger thing in 2010.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official is telling the New York Times that yesterday’s failed terrorist attack aboard Northwest flight 253 might included an “incendiary” device as opposed to an “explosive” one, and that the suspect may have attempted to cause a fire on the plane, not necessarily blow it up. “[O]ur sense is he wanted to wreak some havoc here and was attempting to do just that,” the official said.

The availability of breaking news online is at an all-time high as Twitter streams, email alerts and RSS feeds blast headlines to millions, who in turn retweet, reblog and recite as fact. But as the progression of Christmas day’s Northwest Flight 253 news perfectly demonstrates, speed is the new accuracy. And it’s always interesting to trace the correcting of a story with the hindsight a few hours provides.

After yesterday’s failed bombing of a Northwest airlines flight, new details are beginning to emerge, both about the suspect — confirmed as 23-year-old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — and what exactly occurred in the cabin of flight 253. CNN is reporting that the man is “talking a lot” to the FBI. Plus, firsthand accounts are beginning to surface!

There are currently about ten results in Google for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (that number is well into the hundreds of thousands now), who Friday attempted to ignite some sort of explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Here is what we know so far (UPDATES below):

Tonight, the White House is calling an attempt to detonate a bomb aboard Northwest Flight 253 an attempted terror attack, by a man who himself claims to have been sent by al Qaeda — and MSNBC is showing “Disappearance at the Dairy Queen.” Fox and CNN are on the story with updated information and ongoing. On MSNBC, Christina Brown broke in for about a minute with a quick report, before taking the audience back to their program. Is that the work of a news network?

A passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 landing Friday afternoon in Detroit tried to blow up the flight — but the bomb failed, say authorities. The flight made an emergency landing in Detroit after 23-year old suspect, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to detonate a device but failed.The White House is calling this an attempted terrorist attack. — confirmed, reportedly, by Abdulmutallab himself, who claims to have been sent by al Qaeda.