Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
http://news.scotsman.com/news/Details-emerge-of-Nigerian-student39s.5939806.jp
“Details emerge of Nigerian student’s lifestyle and movements as police search property”
Published Date: 27 December 2009
By Fiona MacLeod
SNIPPET: “In London, police were targeting addresses the 23-year-old is believed to have lived at while studying at the city’s University College.
In Nigeria, his father Alhaji Umaru Mutallab a prominent and wealthy businessman from the Muslim-dominated north of the country was meeting security officials in the capital, Abuja. Nigeria’s This Day newspaper reported that Mutallab’s father was uncomfortable with his son’s extreme religious views and had reported his activities to the US embassy in Abuja as well as Nigerian security agencies.
He said his son left London to travel, though he did not know where to.
Mutallab said: “I believe he might have been to Yemen, but we are investigating to determine that.” The father, a former minister and chairman of First Bank in Nigeria, and several relatives were listed as living at a flat in a luxury mansion in Mansfield Street, London, which was searched by police yesterday.”
SNIPPET: “Abdulmutallab attended the British School in Lome, Togo. The friend added: “About three years ago we were talking about 9/11 (in 2001). I was saying under no circumstances could it ever be okay to kill all those innocent people. He was much more equivocal.
“He said 9/11 was an act of war — that American troops were on Saudi soil and had humiliated Muslim countries so these actions might be necessary. That’s the only time I ever had an argument with him. He was normally very careful what he said.”
SNIPPET: “The friend added: “I speak to his family. In the last year they’ve been really concerned about him. They said he’s started to become very extreme. They were really worried about him. His dad wanted him to go to this very good school in America to study chemical engineering, but he was doing badly in his studies.”
Abdulmutallab was a student at University College London (UCL) between 2005 and 2008 before returning to Nigeria. If he had been radicalised, neighbours from his time as a UCL did not notice.”
SNIPPET: “But reports in Nigera quoted members of the extended Abdulmutallab family saying that he had travelled to Yemen in recent years during his university holidays to study at an Islamic institute.
He is reported in America to have told investigators he acquired the bomb-making equipment from Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen.
It emerged yesterday that Abdulmutallab was known to US counter-terrorism intelligence officials.
Peter King, from the American Homeland Security Committee, said “my understanding is … that (the suspect] does have al-Qaeda connections, certainly extremist terrorist connections, and his name popped up pretty quickly” in a search of intelligence databases. However, he was not on a “no-fly” list.”
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Last Updated: 26 December 2009 11:34 PM
Source: Scotland On Sunday
Location: Scotland
“He said 9/11 was an act of war — that American troops were on Saudi soil and had humiliated Muslim countries so these actions might be necessary..."
"...He was normally very careful what he said...”