Posted on 12/27/2009 12:32:26 PM PST by freespirited
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's path towards apparent Islamist militancy took him to University College London and a luxury block just off the city's Oxford Street.
But no part of his life was so seemingly anomalous to a would-be terrorist as the manicured lawns and tennis courts of the British International school in Togo, where he is believed to have first expressed extreme views.
Today, investigators were trying to establish exactly what provoked him to try to detonate an explosive device as a Northwest Airlines jet made its final descent into Detroit airport on Christmas Day.
It certainly wasn't a life of poverty. He was born in extreme privilege, of the sort few Nigerians could ever dream of, and his education reflected this. His father, Umaru Mutallab, 70, is one of the country's most respected businessmen, who retired earlier this month as chairman of Nigeria's FirstBank, the oldest bank in the country, with offices in London, Paris and Beijing.
He undertook his secondary education as a boarder at the British school in Lomé, Togo's capital, which is mostly staffed by teachers from the UK and attracts wealthy students from across west Africa. Set up in 1983, the school gives pupils a decidedly English-style curriculum, taught in air-conditioned classrooms set amid grassy grounds which also feature a swimming pool and tennis courts....
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So, what goes? What is the correct account? Did he just set his pants on fire for the fun of it? Is there something I miss?
The security alert aboard a Northwest Airlines jet Sunday was the result of a “non-serious” incident, and the man questioned in connection with the scare does not appear to be a threat, a law enforcement source said Sunday. The crew of Northwest Flight 253 — the same Amsterdam, Netherlands-to-Detroit, Michigan flight targeted Friday in what prosecutors called a bomb plot — reported a “verbally disruptive” passenger Sunday and requested police meet the plane, airline and airport officials told CNN. The man was questioned by police after the plane landed in Detroit early Sunday afternoon. The passenger spent about...
Sorry, may be this was a different flight.
Sorry, may be this was a different flight.
There is a big difference though ~ Bill would never have filled his shorts or his descending colon with explosives ~ he'd had someone else do that and he'd watch!
(Bwahahahaha!!!!! What a card ~ that Ayers kid ~ killed his homosexual lover and his girlfriend on the same day with a poorly designed bomb).
Whachya think ~ is Bill Ayers behind this Nigerian? Remember, to a Nigerian pasty faced white boys and AlQaida all look the same eh.
Sorry, but I scooped ya!
Cheers!
Today, investigators were trying to establish exactly what provoked him to try to detonate an explosive device as a Northwest Airlines jet made its final descent into Detroit airport on Christmas Day.
Has Bill killed him yet? If so I missed the news, but I do expect it to happen.
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