Posted on 12/28/2009 11:50:09 AM PST by tobyhill
Cell phone-related materials, including SIM cards, were recovered during searches of "flats or apartments of interest" connected to Flight 253 bomber suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Fox News learned Monday.
SIM cards, which store cell phone numbers and incoming or outgoing calls, may be able to determine who was talking to whom in the months and days prior to Abdulmutallab's flight from Nigeria to Detroit.
The cards are now being analyzed as investigators continue searching locations where Abdulmutallab may have stayed.
The discovery comes as a court hearing to determine whether the government can get DNA from the suspect was postponed. The federal court in Detroit says a hearing scheduled for Monday has been delayed until Jan. 8. No reason was given.
On Monday, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula reportedly claimed responsibility for the attempt.
Investigators believe the suspect was radicalized before he went to Yemen, sources told Fox News. According to one source, Abdulmutallab traveled to Yemen sometime near the end of last year or early this year. He was there for several weeks or months, and investigators believe Abdulmutallab was "vetted for the mission" while in Yemen.
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Just remember, Janet “The Sgt. Schultz of the DHS” Napolitano has declared that there is no evidence of a larger terrorist conspiracy.
If Awlaki is still alive, we should hunt him down, bring him back here, try him for treason and execute him. He was born in this country. He is a traitor.
I’m not for giving trials to terrorist. Just tie him up in a bag, put some weights on him and drop him 30,000 feet to the ocean floor.
I want to know if he boarded the plane without a passport.
Grateful that this terrorist wasn’t too careful about covering his tracks. Those SIM cards would have been found by the authorities regardless the outcome. Maybe the SpecOps soldiers will now get a little target practice.
If we bring him back here he will end up a professor at the University of Chicago and will probably launch the career of America’s first Yemeni-American president from his living room.
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