Posted on 12/25/2009 7:17:19 PM PST by kristinn
An al Qaida-linked suspect who allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic plane is studying at a UK university, it has been reported.
The Nigerian is accused of trying to detonate a powdery substance on a plane from Amsterdam as it prepared to land at Detroit with 278 people on board.
US sources said he was subdued by passengers and has since claimed to have been acting for al Qaida.
He has been named by ABC News as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, an engineering student at University College London, with the broadcaster citing US government documents.
The suspect, who has also been identified as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab in other reports, is currently under guard at a Michigan hospital.
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony according to his entry visa, ABC News said, which was issued on June 16 last year and valid until June 12, 2010.
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Thanks for catching that. Good point.
Anti Americans must go to London schools. George Soros and Rockefeller studied Fabian socialism at a college in London.
As long as he got his Miranda Rights, thats all that matters.
Pray for America’s Freedom
You know, I think it’s time Obama makes another speech to the ‘muslim world’. The first one doesn’t seem to have gone over well. But maybe that’s how he wanted it.
It’s time airport security start profiling and performing extra searches on Arabs/Muslims. I’m tired of waiting while they search grandmas and nuns.
Bless England’s heart for being a conduit to the world for some of the most stupid policies and despicable human beings in history. They’re not worth saving anymore.
Always just thought the person had to be removed from the gene pool, didn’t have to die?
flying to detroit...
just happens to be an enormous population center of muslims in the US.
The other big Anti-American university is Columbia.
Happy 2010 America
Well he might still be able to be cloned :-)
“he assembled the pants bomb during the flight using material that was smuggled aboard the craft in some other fashion”
Did that myself once. Beans and string cheese. Actually it was more of a chemical weapon.
Those darn yutes again.
Well, he definitely knew what to say to hoodwink the PC US government.
I think the litigation is over.....
‘97 or ‘98.....
Flying home from the UK. We picked up some Brit/EU ‘gypsies’ at Gatwick for the ride to MSP.
Back in the days of free booze on international flights.
They believed that they were in heaven as they tossed the wee bottles down like candy....
Eventually, they were too rowdy and cut off...
That’s when the fight started...
They went after the FA’s and demanded more drink. The guy I was travelling with was struck in the head by one of the miscreants and started throwing punches....
The drunks were cuffed and stuffed by a marshall and my partner eventually was awarded some $$ in a lawsuit.
I can’t yet reveal my part in this, according to my lawyer.
;-)
Following in Karl Marx's footsteps.
Not to mention that the passengers acted stupidly.
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What if he had succeeded? What would we be talking about now? Would 0 think it was a good reason to interrupt his vacation?
He could have succeeded and NOTHING the government did kept him from killing some Americans. Every government employee should be sent to Pakistan. Wait, they have nukes, how about, Bangladesh.
Is this a joke????????????????
I thought it was trying to light up a device? CBS is saying he was a human bomb and was trying to light himself up?
You get a very different impression from Fox News.
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