Posted on 01/03/2010 9:02:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON -- British intelligence officials knew that the Nigerian man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner had ties to U.K. extremists but did not consider him enough of a high risk to alert American authorities, a senior British official said Sunday.
Officials realized about a year after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came to London to study in 2005 that he was in contact with Islamic extremists whose communications were being monitored, a senior government official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Extremist” is a relative term. A guy who calls Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, and Bill Ayers “friend” is not likely to see this guy as an “extremist.”
So now that the Bush’s fault line isn’t working, they’re going to blame Great Britain.
Turns out that the “Ball Bomber’s” father is no angel either!
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/01/father-of-northwest-ball-bomber-integral-to-rise-of-sharia-wahabbism-in-kenya-.html
I believe we should wait for an analysis by those intellectual giants;
*Truthers -i.e. 9/11 was an inside job*
Not sure who they are - but I know they must have an opinion.
Obama has returned us to the Clinton mode of intelligence - nobody is sharing what they know.
He said it wouldn't make sense to alert US authorities to every person who showed up on the "fringes of extremism" ...
And yet, the British were concerned enough to deny him a visa so he could return to their country. They might have shared that little piece of info. Also:
Ahmad Makhdoom, the new regional director at the Goodge Street mosque...said the Nigerian attended prayers there between 2005 and 2008.
"His mind became twisted, brainwashed - but that didn't happen while he was in the U.K.," Makhdoom said. "He was a student at UCL - we have a lot of students. This was one bad act. It is not fair to tie it to a place of worship."...
Why are they still calling this Pe*ker Head a suspect?
Don’t matter one iota if the Brits knew he was a potential terrorist. We knew.
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