Posted on 12/26/2009 8:43:47 PM PST by Steelfish
Father Warned US About Plane Bomb Suspect's Behaviour
[See pic in URL] The saharareporters.com website published a photo of the detainee
The father of a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day had voiced concerns to US officials about his son, it has emerged. The father, a top Nigerian banker, warned US authorities weeks ago about 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's extreme religious views. An Obama administration official told the New York Times the report had been received, but had been non-specific.
Airports worldwide have beefed up security after the alleged attack. Mr Abdulmutallab was formally charged by a US federal judge at a Michigan hospital where he is being treated for burns after allegedly trying to detonate a device. 'Sewn in underpants' The detainee reportedly smiled as agents brought him in to the room in a wheelchair, dressed in a green hospital robe and with a blanket over his lap.
The Northwest Airlines plane had been carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew High explosives are believed to have been moulded to his body and sewn in to his underpants.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
“Non-specific reports” are acceptable evidentiary fact according the the Democrat trolls that hijacked the 9-11 investigations, no?
With an honest media Obama would be a goner.
That was turbo-quick. Thanks for the pic post.
are there any “Nigerian bankers” who are not involved with the 411 scams?
Does the pic post eerily remind you of someone?
Does this guy look very much like the DC sniper/
He looks a little like Eddie Murphy.
Put a golf hat on him and we will see.
corrupt, useless Nigeria
Tiger! Wow, that very close.
Tiger Woods’s distant Nigerian cousin ?
:-O
How non-specific could it be when he was talking about his son?
OK, he might not have known the plan. But this warning came with a name. Granted, I don’t think the president can be briefed and take action on every single bad guy out there, but after 7 1/2 years of “what did Bush know and when did he know it,” I’m not ready to ask for the president to suddnely be given leeway either.
What did Obama know and when did he know it. We had the guy’s name. He got a visa and got on a plane. With materials for making a bomb (or at least for roasting his privates.) How did this happen?
“Non specific information” provided by a parent is more than sufficient grounds to revoke someone’s US Visa. Without such a visa, no airline will board the traveler:airlines foreign and domestic pay huge fines for failing to ensure that foreigners who require visas to visit America have such visas. The procedure is for the Consulate/State Department to notify all carriers that a person’s visa has been revoked. In the day of e-mail and the internet, this can be done within hours of receiving derogatory information. The information need not be definitive. No foreigner has a “right” to visit the USA. Obviously the terrorist’s visa was not revoked. Why?
Maybe, but one of the terrorists was able to board without a passport.
From another thread.
FReeper Beagle8U found this and posted it on a thread in FR that has subsequently been locked...
I’ll copy/paste the guy’s comment before it gets removed from the mlive site by HS...
“Posted by pug
December 26, 2009, 5:47AM
I was on this flight today and am thankful to be alive. My wife and I were returning from an African safari and had this connecting flight through Amsterdam. I sat in row 27, which was 7 rows behind the terrorist. I got to see the whole thing take place and it was very scary. Thanks to a few quick acting people I am still alive today.
For those of you talking about airline security in this thread, I was next to the terrorist when he checked in at the Amsterdam airport early on Christmas. My wife and I were playing cards directly in front of the check in counter. This is what I saw (and I relayed this to the FBI when we were
held in customs):
An Indian man in a nicely dressed suit around age 50 approached the check in counter with the terrorist and said “This man needs to get on this flight and he has no passport.” The two of them were an odd pair as the terrorist is a short, black man that looked like he was very poor and looks around age 17(Although I think he is 23 he doesn’t look it). It did not cross my mind that they were terrorists, only that the two looked weird together. The ticket taker said “you can’t board without a passport”. The Indian man then replied, “He is from Sudan, we do this all the time”. I can only take from this to mean that it is difficult to get passports from Sudan and this was some sort of sympathy ploy. The ticket taker then said “You will have to talk to my manager”, and sent the two down a hallway. I never saw the Indian man again as he wasn’t on the flight. It was also weird that the terrorist never said a word in this exchange. Anyway, somehow, the terrorist still made it onto the plane. I am not sure if it was a bribe or just sympathy from the security manager.
FBI also arrested a different Indian man while we were held in customs after a bomb sniffing dog detected a bomb in his carry on bag and he was searched after we landed. This was later confirmed while we were in customs when an FBI agent said to us “You are being moved to another area because this area is not safe. Read between the lines. Some of you saw what just happened.”(The arrest of the other Indian man). I am not sure why this hasn’t made it into any news story, but I stood about 15-20 feet away from the other Indian man when he was cuffed and arrested after his search.
What also didn’t make the news is that we were held on the plane for 20 minutes AFTER IT LANDED!. A bomb could have gone off then. This wasn’t too smart of security to not let us off the plane immediately.
You can see what time I am writing this as I am having a hard time sleeping tonight. Just thought some of you would like to know what I saw, Merry Christmas.”
Interesting how the guy got thru and onto the airplane without a passport...
I’m sure the FBI and DHS/TSA will want to squash this tidbit of information as quickly as possible...
I bet it will be discredited (regardless of the truth or fiction) of the account...
Now, now, let’s not PROFILE a certain kind of look here.
Remember a 90 year old WHITE Grandmother must be equally humiliated as a possible terrorist.
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