Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab
Posted on 12/26/2009 10:20:58 AM PST by kristinn
The suspect in the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 used a highly explosive substance called PETN, a law enforcement official told CBS News Saturday.
The explosives were carried in a soft plastic container - possibly a condom - though much of the packaging was destroyed in the fire, the official said.
The FBI is questioning the suspect, identified as 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who claimed to be acting on orders from al Qaeda to blow up the airliner, officials said.
A high-ranking law enforcement official told CBS News that the suspect apparently used a syringe to inject a chemical into the powder, which was located near his groin. It is a technique not seen in previous attempted attacks and it's possible that this incident was a test of whether the materials could pass screening and how effective they might be at causing damage, the source said.
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I hope he burned his substandard dangly parts off.
Yeah, then we’ll get Bill Maher commenting on how they’re not cowards, but our AF pilots are.
http://www.saharareporters.com
God help us!
“I hope he burned his substandard dangly parts off.”
With 72 virgins waiting for him, THIS was his plan?
Darwin Award....
Kevin Jennings will never let them ban condoms
Anybody know anything more about the explosive?
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Any chance Dick Cheney will weigh in on this????
I fear what this is going to do to airports. The moronic idiots at Homeland Security are really going to crack down on little old ladies now!
No 72 virgins for him anyway. He didn't succeed.
Thanks be to God for us he is a substandard terrorist.
I only pray that this wasn't some sort of sick dry run.
IIRC, PETN was what was in detonation cord. Explodes at 23,000 feet per second as compared to C4 at 26,000 feet per second. IIRC.
Possibly better at blowing his legs off than at bringing down an airplane.
Cheers!
I wonder if he carried this onto the airplane in his rectum and them "collected" it just prior to landing?
Thoughts?
So now we go from human guinea pigs to inhuman pricks?
A google search shows its the core explosive in det cord. it can be used as a booster so there might have been more. Its a very powerful explosive and could have cut through the aircraft skin if placed properly. In his pants its not going to be enough according to what I’ve read.
In Reid's case, there was a small thread of TATP running through 100 grammes of PETN, a high-grade military plastic explosive, attached to a powder-fuse running through his shoelace. That combination surprised bomb experts - TATP is not the trigger normally used for PETN - but was seen as a sophisticated mixture for avoiding detection.
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, also known as corpent, pentrite, or rarely and primarily in German as nitropenta or pentrit), is one of the most powerful high explosives known, with a relative effectiveness factor (R.E. factor) of 1.66.
The most obvious use of PETN is as an explosive. It is more sensitive to shock or friction than TNT or tetryl, and it is never used alone as a booster. It is primarily used in booster and bursting charges of small caliber ammunition, in upper charges of detonators in some land mines and shells, and as the explosive core of detonation cord. Apart from this, PETN is used as a vasodilator, similar to nitroglycerin. A medicine for heart disease, Lentonitrat, is nearly pure PETN.
They *both* look angry.
I guess we ought to put Tiger on the "no drive" list.
Let me guess. Lutheran. Swedish, maybe Dutch.
Just heard on Fox, new "security regulation": No leaving your seat for one hour before landing.
Then when some Jihadi blows up a plane or sets off something, 1 1/2 hours before landing?
Just all fly naked, I guess.
Fry’em!
Let me guess. Lutheran. Swedish, maybe Dutch.
Just heard on Fox, new "security regulation": No leaving your seat for one hour before landing.
Then when some Jihadi blows up a plane or sets off something, 1 1/2 hours before landing?
Just all fly naked, I guess.
It looks like this mope couldn't get it to detonate properly and it caught fire. Hence the serious burns he's hopefully suffering from.
There are very few people I wanna see naked on a plane.
Saharareporters has identified the family of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the 23 year old would–be bomber of Northwest Airline flight 253, who was arrested yesterday in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of the recently retired Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Umaru Abdul Mutallab.
The terror suspect who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane is the son of a Nigerian banker who alerted U.S. authorities to his “extreme religious views” months ago, it was reported Saturday.
The father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a former minister and chairman of First Bank in Nigeria, is shocked that his son was even was allowed to fly to the U.S., family members told the Nigerian newspaper This Day.
The dad was meeting with security officials to discuss his son, identified as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23.
The younger Mutallab was not on any no-fly list when he flew from Nigeria to Detroit through Amsterdam, Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.) told the Daily News.
When he tried to ignite powder strapped to his leg with a a chemical-filled syringe, he was tackled by a heroic passenger aboard Northwest Flight 253.
There you go. The member of the ROP just had heart problems or high blood pressure. He was probably just taking a few years supply, since he thought he wouldn't be eligible to get any under ObamaCare.
Sounds like something from an Austin Powers movie...
He probably lives in a really nice Bachelor Hut.
Well, that's just dandy. They're already not enforcing previous (dating back to post-Northwest flight 327 w/Annie Jacobsen) prohibition against passengers being allowed to congregate in the aisles -- that's what the flying imams were also doing, and they got PAID for it!
It reminds me of congress: "We need new rules! We broke all the old ones!!"
He told authorities he got the explosives in Yemen and received orders from Al Qaeda operatives to detonate the device on a plane over U.S. soil, officials said.
He is an engineering student at the University College in London. His last-known address near the school is a $4 million apartment in Central London. Police were searching there Saturday morning.
This Day reported that the suspect has been known for extremist religious views since high school at the British International School in Lome, Togo.
“At the secondary school, he was known for preaching about Islam to his schoolmates and he was popularly called ‘Alfa,’ a local coinage for Islamic scholar,” This Day reported.
OK.
Now you’ve done it. That’s hysterical.
Are you seriouos about the “no leaving your seat for 1 hour” comment. thats completely useless
Wiki article says: 8400 m/s for PETN, which would be 27,560 fps.
Why all the "mickey mousing" around?
Mandatory scrubs only, blind folds, and hand cuffs before boarding!
“It is my brother,” Abdul Mutallab, son of Umaru Mutallab, a prominent banker from the northern state of Katsina, told Reuters by telephone.
Nigeria’s This Day newspaper cited family members as saying Umaru Mutallab had been uncomfortable with his son’s “extreme religious views” and had reported him to the U.S. Embassy in the capital Abuja and to Nigerian security agencies six months ago.
The This Day report said Umaru Mutallab would meet Nigerian security agencies on Saturday.
“He is in a meeting right now but I don’t think he is meeting with the police yet,” Abdul Mutallab told Reuters, but declined to comment further.
The man was believed to have spent time in Britain as a student and authorities were trying to establish details about his activities in the country, a British counter-terrorism source said.
University College London (UCL) said a student by the name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was enrolled on a mechanical engineering course between September 2005 and June 2008 but said it had no evidence this individual was the same man.
The This Day report said the suspect had attended the British International School in Togo, where he had been nick-named “Alfa” — a local term for an Islamic scholar — before going to London to study.
Citing family sources, the newspaper said he had relocated to Egypt and then Dubai, where he cut family ties, after leaving London.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BP17U20091226
I can't WAIT to see the Nigerian scam emails coming from this one...
Cheers!
I can't WAIT to see the Nigerian scam emails coming from this one...
Cheers!
amazing...the feds know he has strong terrorist connections, his family turned him in to US officials because they were concerned about his strong religious (Muslim) stand, so what do the feds do?
give him a visa to welcome him into the US and make millions of travelers who AREN’T in the feds terrorist database jump through more hoops.
when are they going to USE THE DATABASE RATHER THAN INFLICT MORE NONSENSE ON LAW ABIDING AMERICANS????????
Roger that.
DUH . bangs hand on head! that has to be it!! ;-)
Serious as a grave. Fox just confirmed.
But yes, useless, just like III Corps/Ft. Hood's new privately owned arms rules.
That ‘rule’ wouldn’t even have helped this situation. The guy never left his seat!
Thanks be to God for us he is a substandard terrorist.
I only pray that this wasn’t some sort of sick dry run.
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Yeah, substandard and, ergo, used like cannon fodder. Doing a dry run for the pros. I wonder how much that classified TSA doc that got put online helped the jihadis, as it was most likely intended to do.
Perhaps the next attempt will be more successful and will lead to the Reichstag Fire incident that Dear Leader will use to declare marshal law.
God help us all.
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