Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 12/27/2009, 1:54:50 AM by Presbyterian Reporter
About the time Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab left University College London here in June 2008, the U.S. issued a multi-year, multi-visit visa to the Nigerian national, who hails from a privileged background.
A senior U.S. official says there was no "derogatory information" concerning Mr. Abdulmutallab, nor "any information suggesting his radicalization."
What happened between mid-2008 and Christmas Day – when Mr. Abulmutallab was implicated in the attempted terrorist bombing of a U.S. jetliner – remains a mystery.
"Our information suggests this happened later," a U.S. official said of his transformation into a global terror suspect.
Yet over the past 18 months, there were signs of growing concern. British security sources said he wasn't known to be the target of any previous terrorist investigations. But in May of this year, the U.K. Home Office barred the suspect from re-entering Britain on a student visa because the college he was applying to study at was not considered a bona fide institution, a person familiar with the matter said.
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the suspect, warned U.S. officials at the American embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, in recent weeks that he feared his son had been "radicalized" during his trips outside the West African country, according to a senior U.S. official briefed on the exchange.
Mr. Mutallab's concerns about his son weren't specific nor did they point to any imminent threat against the U.S., according to the official. But the State Department did share the father's views with officials from the U.S. government's intelligence and counterterrorism bureaus, according to the official.
Mr. Mutallab is a prominent Nigerian banker and a highly respected leader in the nation's banking and business community. He retired this month from his position as chairman of First Bank of Nigeria PLC after 13 years on the board.
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A report on tonight’s news said that this chump asked for a court-appointed lawyer. His father is wealthy; can’t he pay for the lawyer.
This is great: legal representation for terrorists at taxpayer expense.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
The Chump is the US taxpayer, who will now pay our Attorney General’s old law firm to represent him. How’s that?
Guilty as sin and free as a bird America.
Well, maybe now that he has third degree burns on his groin maybe he will calm down a bit.
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