Abdul Umar Mutallab pictured in 2004 on a Duke of Edinburgh Award test in Togo.
Posted on 12/26/2009 1:34:35 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
Former student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet, had his UK visa request refused in May
THE son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight over America, was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, graduated from a university in London last year but his visa request was refused in May when he attempted to apply for a new course at a bogus college.
Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, attempted to ignite an explosive device on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day after shouting about Afghanistan.Bomb materials had apparently been sewn into his underwear, an authoritative American report said.
The incident led to increased security at UK airports and delays of up to five hours for passengers in Britain yesterday.
For the past two years Abdulmutallab has been on a United States watchlist for people known to have extremist links, but he was not prevented from flying to America. UK officials indicated that he had passed across MI5’s radar but was not deemed sufficiently threatening to warrant surveillance.
Abdulmutallab began his journey in Nigeria and then changed planes in Amsterdam. Peter King, a Republican congressman, claimed he did not go through full-body image screening at either airport.
All airlines flying to America have now imposed heightened security, including “pat-down” checks for all passengers and a hand luggage check at the gate.
Abdulmutallab was from a privileged background. His father, Dr Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was until recently the head of First Bank of Nigeria and had been a government minister during the 1970s.
~SNIP~
“He was refused entry on grounds that he was applying to study at an educational establishment that we didn’t consider to be genuine,” an official said.
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Abdul Umar Mutallab pictured in 2004 on a Duke of Edinburgh Award test in Togo.
the fort hood terrorist connected to homeland security.
will this dude have the same connection??
Another refugee...give us your tired, your poor, your psychotic mass killers...we won’t bother screening them...
absolutely AMAZING!!
the most PC/Islamistan country on this planet bars the guy and all-0bama’s-children administration gives him a free pass?!?@?!?
our nation’s security is being run by 0-children...mmmmmmm.mmmmmm.mmmmmmm (soon to be YOUR children)
absolutely AMAZING!!
the most PC/Islamistan country on this planet bars the guy and all-0bama’s-children administration gives him a free pass?!?@?!?
our nation’s security is being run by 0-children...mmmmmmm.mmmmmm.mmmmmmm (soon to be YOUR children)
Department of Homeland INSECURITY!!
I have a feeling the guys in this agency are easily bribed. Especially after this incident.
Your US gubmint at work, ladies and gents. I’m amazed that we are talking about the UK..the most Islamic-pc country, yet they knew he was more wacko than the other wackos they currently have in their mosques...un-FN-believable.
Can’t blame his father for not trying to warn people.
I think we are being attacked from within so as the messiah can declare martial law or turn the interpole police out to do all WHITES in
amazing that we got a muslim president in america.
thanks a lot obots.
He was refused entry on grounds that he was applying to study at an educational establishment that we didn’t consider to be genuine,” an official said.”
So he wanted to come to the US to be a student of Bill Ayers?
There will be a point when some politician will basically say something like: “We know who these people are, and what they believe. If they want to come to this country, they will be investigated THOROUGHLY.”
...and guess what? It’s not so bad, it’s what Israel’s been doing for decades. The world will not end...although the Democratic Party just might, depending on how they respond, and how much American blood is spilled while we dither.
“””Former student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet, had his UK visa request refused in May 2009”””
When Government Employees are more concerned about being politically correct than doing a good job, they overlook basic things like revoking the visa of a person whose father has warned them to be wary of.
Obama sets the example and it not good.
Hmm, I wonder what all he learned at jihad camp during that time?
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