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US Plane Suspect 'a London Student'
This is London ^ | Saturday, December 26, 2009

Posted on 12/25/2009 7:17:19 PM PST by kristinn

An al Qaida-linked suspect who allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic plane is studying at a UK university, it has been reported.

The Nigerian is accused of trying to detonate a powdery substance on a plane from Amsterdam as it prepared to land at Detroit with 278 people on board.

US sources said he was subdued by passengers and has since claimed to have been acting for al Qaida.

He has been named by ABC News as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, an engineering student at University College London, with the broadcaster citing US government documents.

The suspect, who has also been identified as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab in other reports, is currently under guard at a Michigan hospital.

He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony according to his entry visa, ABC News said, which was issued on June 16 last year and valid until June 12, 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...


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To: brityank

The picture I’m getting is that he assembled the pants bomb during the flight using material that was smuggled aboard the craft in some other fashion.


21 posted on 12/25/2009 7:35:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

P.S. I’d be curious to hear about your one... ;-)


22 posted on 12/25/2009 7:36:22 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: McGruff

Just heard on CBS radio, he injected his groin with some chemical mixture, it failed to blow up, just 3rd dregree burns.

Well guess he did win the Darwin Award!!!


23 posted on 12/25/2009 7:37:26 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123)
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To: McGruff
"So he had some skills."

He'll be appointed White House Fluffy Muslim Kisses Czar shortly.

24 posted on 12/25/2009 7:37:31 PM PST by Enosh (†)
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To: Springman

No, only the consolation prize.


25 posted on 12/25/2009 7:39:13 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Someone needs to tell them that Bush is gone and we love Al Queda now. Wasn’t that supposed to stop terrorism?

Pray for America’s Freedom


26 posted on 12/25/2009 7:39:18 PM PST by bray (What ya in for Son? No Health Insurance.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Clothing Malfunction


27 posted on 12/25/2009 7:39:32 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

50 plus. My pants never caught on fire.


28 posted on 12/25/2009 7:39:58 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah up his butt.


29 posted on 12/25/2009 7:40:21 PM PST by easternsky
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To: kristinn
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony according to his entry visa

yeah. The Muslim Murder of the Infidels ceremony....
30 posted on 12/25/2009 7:41:13 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Springman

I’ll be interested to know if any of this was smuggled on board in a body cavity. I hear that ploy is virtually undetectable. (Actually, scratch “virtually.)


31 posted on 12/25/2009 7:41:23 PM PST by 1951Boomer
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I was being patted down for the SECOND time getting on a flight four years ago when 3 muzzies were waived onto a plane right in front of me and the two nitwits turning my pockets inside out. I said to them that NO ONE had checked them out...and that they had been acting strangely...nothing weird, but something off center...the two geniuses said they would look into it...I was talking very loud...I’m understating it...and got a hard look from one of the rag heads... I said, yeah, I’m talking about you, tough guy” (or words to that effect) but still managed to get the attention of the flight crew onto them instead of me (though it was touch and go)...they took them back off the flight after they threw me some hand gestures and I boarded, laughing.

They did not get on before we took off. Never heard another word. The two knuckleheads going over me threatened to keep me in a holding cell and I told them I wasn’t getting on that plane anyway if they weren’t checking those three out...they were “suspicious” enough in my book...

That was my only brush with anything like that and I also qualify this by saying I have logged just under a million mile (US only) in the past 10-12 years...American Airlines, mostly, which this flight was...


32 posted on 12/25/2009 7:41:56 PM PST by jessduntno (I think "you'll get what you deserve" is a promise. A socialist thinks it is a threat.)
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To: kristinn
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony according to his entry visa, ABC News said, which was issued on June 16 last year and valid until June 12, 2010.

Well, he most certainly was, in terms of jihad and the death cult known as Islam.

33 posted on 12/25/2009 7:44:02 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Allegra

Allegra this is way off topic but Merry Christmas we love you be safe


34 posted on 12/25/2009 7:44:08 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: kristinn

Jeanne Meserve also said he did not go thru secondary screening at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam before continuing on to Detroit.


35 posted on 12/25/2009 7:44:44 PM PST by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: kristinn
"Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23..."

'nuff said!

Profiling?

...Ya damn right I am.

36 posted on 12/25/2009 7:44:55 PM PST by FrankR (obama was not an election, it was an INVASION of the United States.)
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To: kristinn
"Peter King was just on CNN again. He said he was told Abdul was not on the no-fly list because his terrorist ties were not aviation related. I kid you not."

Bus related? Train related? Mall related?? I am just sick about this crap happening to us OVER AND OVER and them getting defended...

37 posted on 12/25/2009 7:45:41 PM PST by jessduntno (I think "you'll get what you deserve" is a promise. A socialist thinks it is a threat.)
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To: McGruff
an engineering student

So he had some skills.

An engineering student ? His bomb fizzled in his lap! Fail.

Plus he was tackled by a solid citizen. Beat down.

His skills suck!

38 posted on 12/25/2009 7:46:02 PM PST by csvset
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To: Jim 0216

Obummer has stated that we should not jump to any conclusions about this brite student.


39 posted on 12/25/2009 7:47:02 PM PST by ncfool (Obama Bare fisted Politican at home. Pantywaist VS. Real thugs abroad.)
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To: kristinn
an engineering student at University College London

Who was attracted to terrorism because of his extreme poverty and lack of opportunities.

40 posted on 12/25/2009 7:48:20 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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