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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: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yup, I always sit in the burning pants section.


61 posted on 12/25/2009 8:07:07 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: Springman
One account says the bomb was built into his pants, your source information says it was a chemical mixture injected into himself.

Unfreakening believable. I wonder if this will finally start waking people up or if the MSM will continue to cover for terrorists.

62 posted on 12/25/2009 8:07:12 PM PST by pctech
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To: The Great RJ

“MSM reports: He acted alone. The bomb was crude. ... You get a very different impression from Fox News.”

Exactly. Per Fox, the device was “sophisticated”. So like the MSM to provide excuses for terrorists and play down everything.


63 posted on 12/25/2009 8:07:21 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced. (Mencken))
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To: Jim 0216
..news seems to come out of London now..before the United States..as far as details.

Materials for device out of Yeman, but nothing is confirmed even the "correct name" as 2.

64 posted on 12/25/2009 8:08:03 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo


I’d like to poll the audience, here....

How many fights have you been involved in on an international flight?”

Back in 1970 I was supposed to catch a KLM flight from Amsterdam to NY but it was hijacked by Yasser Arafat...does that count?


65 posted on 12/25/2009 8:08:36 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG... for unto us is born a Child)
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To: Jim 0216; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt; Lady Jag

How long? The radio news at the last hour reported he CLAIMS to be working on behalf of al Qaeda, but the matter is being investigated. I’m pretty sure he was just lighting some ceremonial incense and everyone somehow got the wrong idea. Those pesky passengers will feel so silly in the morning.


66 posted on 12/25/2009 8:12:26 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: kristinn

I didn’t know there were Amish in Nigeria.


67 posted on 12/25/2009 8:12:44 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: LouAvul

There is no England anymore.


68 posted on 12/25/2009 8:13:33 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: ntnychik

a SERIOUS post on DU
“Some perspective on this people...
Nigerians celebrate Christmas with setting off fire-crackers. The questions are, is this particular Nigerian visiting the United States for the very first time? Was he engaging in his country’s practice of celebrating Christmas with fire-cracker? Did he choose the very worse place to engage in his celebrations?
Like you stated, the mere possession of fire-crackers and displaying them on a plane should get this idiot (and I do not use the word ‘idiot’ lightly) charged with terrorism. But let us remember not everyone is aware of our laws, security concerns and way of life, I am just saying... “


69 posted on 12/25/2009 8:13:48 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Domestic Church

That counts....


70 posted on 12/25/2009 8:13:52 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas, FReepers!)
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Why are we still issuing visas to foreign male Muslims between the ages of 18 and 50? It is ASKING for trouble. Without a visa issued by a US Consul, they can't board the plane. Except of course for European Muslims, who , like other Europeans,can enter the USA without a visa. Something special will have to be worked out for Frenchmen, Brits and Germans with names like “ALI.” They are a clear and present danger.
71 posted on 12/25/2009 8:16:22 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: RummyChick
... and I do not use the word ‘idiot’ lightly ...

LoL!

72 posted on 12/25/2009 8:18:41 PM PST by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: All

http://bit.ly/7D6Nbk

The timing of the attacks and origin of the attacks would also be significant in light of recent U.S. supported counterterror strikes against Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen.


73 posted on 12/25/2009 8:19:45 PM PST by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: RummyChick

sounds like one twisted sister.


74 posted on 12/25/2009 8:21:49 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: pctech; RummyChick

Now from WDIV TV in Detroit. The person went to the bathroom, came back holding a pillow, sat down and started doing something under it. The fire stared and he was jumped on by two passagers who put the fire out and held him.

No link, just watched local news.


75 posted on 12/25/2009 8:22:04 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123)
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To: RummyChick

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are the people who voted in Obama!!!!!!!

I always celebrate fourth of July with my fireworks strapped to me leg. /sarcasm


76 posted on 12/25/2009 8:23:46 PM PST by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: Springman

“Obama’s military aide told the president about an incident aboard a plane as it was landing in Detroit just after 9 a.m. here. “

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CQODU00&show_article=1


77 posted on 12/25/2009 8:24:30 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: kristinn
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony...

What freaking religious ceremony??? He's got the whole stinking Middle East and he comes to America from Lagos for a religious ceremony??? BS. Pure BS. Red flags should've been going up all over the place at Customs or Homeland Security or whomever is responsible for screening out incoming terrorists. And he should never have been given a visa based on that lame, weak-a** reason for visiting America.

78 posted on 12/25/2009 8:25:15 PM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Allegra

Yeah, but you’re only flying into Baghdad. Baghdad is no Detroit. :)


79 posted on 12/25/2009 8:27:08 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: kristinn

Think of the PR coup they would have established ... Yemeni Al Q “strike” on a mayor American city on CHRISTMAS ... the news on Fox reports that everyone but DU acknowledges that this is probably a “new type of device” they were trying and that he does in fact have terrorist ties ... they believe the explosives were Al Q by way of Yemen and that the airport second screening failed ... even though they admit, he was on a “second tier” list ... as if there should be such a thing ...


80 posted on 12/25/2009 8:27:12 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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