http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6971071.ece
December 30, 2009
“Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab organised ‘War on Terror Week’ while studying at UCL”
Sean O’Neill, Crime and Security Editor
SNIPPET: “According to isocnews.com, an online magazine for Muslim students, War on Terror Week at University College London was one of the events of the year in 2007. There was a slick video advertisement for the event, an eye-catching poster and packed lecture theatres for five days of discussions about Guantánamo Bay, allegations of torture and the subject of “Jihad v Terrorism”.
The website reported the week of talks as “informative, relevant and always entertaining — the audience got involved with a good mixture of Muslim and non-Muslim attendees asking tough questions of the speakers”. In a corner of the poster, the event is declared to have been “approved by Umar Farook, president of UCLU Islamic Society”.”
SNIPPET: “The Nigerian student who organised “War on Terror Week” in January 2007 is now better known as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be suicide bomber who tried to blow up a transatlantic airliner last week.”
SNIPPET: “UCL has confirmed that Mr Abdulmutallab was a mechanical engineering student on its Central London campus in 2005-08 and in the academic year 2006-07 was president of the student union’s Islamic Society.”
SNIPPET: “And he confessed to having “jihad fantasies”...”
SNIPPET: “Within a year of arriving in London Mr Abdulmutallab started to adopt a more formal religious dress code, including a white robe and skullcap.”
SNIPPET: “He is reported to have attended some of the radical meetings held at London colleges and mosques. He is understood to have attended talks given by the extremist US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at East London Mosque. Awlaki, who was later banned from Britain and is believed to be in hiding with al-Qaeda in Yemen, where Mr Abdulmutallab spent months.”
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/1229/Farouk1986-what-Christmas-bombing-suspect-wrote-online
“’Farouk1986’: what Christmas bombing suspect wrote online”
SNIPPET: “Online posts by ‘Farouk1986,’ thought to be the Christmas Day bombing suspect, suggest a student preoccupied by university admissions and English soccer clubs, but who was also apparently lonely and conflicted.”
By Tracey D. Samuelson Correspondent / December 29, 2009
SNIPPET: “The Washington Post reports that many of Farouk1986’s personal details appear to match up with the Detroit bombing suspect.”
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(TIMESonline.co.uk)
December 30, 2009
“Flight 253 jihadist is “the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years””