The man accused of trying to blow up an airplane spent only 27 minutes in Nigeria during his travels that ended in Detroit, Nigerian officials said.
Al-Qaeda film clip warned of bomb on plane
In the al-Qaeda video, dated 21 December, a man identified as Mohammed al-Kalwi delivered a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni air strike on a militant training camp four days earlier. He said: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God. O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America."
No letup in flight bomb risk, 3 years after plot
We are still at risk," said security and aviation analyst Chris Yates, noting there is still no widely available system installed at international airports to detect explosives in liquid form, although several technologies are in trials.
Nor is there a widely-deployed technology to routinely guard against a bomber with explosives hidden in a body cavity -- a technique al Qaeda used in August in Saudi Arabia.
Yates said measures taken since September 11 had left air passengers generally no safer. He added: "We're still vulnerable on a whole bunch of levels, whether it be via something taken into the passenger cabin that we can't detect at an airport or something being secreted into the cargo hold."
Al Qaeda leader behind Northwest Flight 253 terror plot was released by US
Guantanamo prisoner prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari was sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody.
Muslim cleric deported from UK arrested in Kenya
A human rights official says a Jamaica-born Islamic cleric once deported from the UK has been arrested by Kenyan anti-terror police.
Abdullah el-Faisal was arrested Friday in Mombasa after he left a mosque, says Al-Amin Kimathi, executive coordinator of the Muslim Human Rights Forum.
Police told el-Faisal he had violated the terms of his tourist visa by preaching in mosques.
The cleric was sentenced to nine years in British jail in 2003 after being convicted of incitement to murder and stirring racial hatred by urging followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans.
Police told el-Faisal he had violated the terms of his tourist visa by preaching in mosques.
The cleric was sentenced to nine years in British jail in 2003 after being convicted of incitement to murder and stirring racial hatred by urging followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans.
YEP. That all adds up, doesn't it? Nine years jail in 2003 and in 2010 he's in Kenya on a tourist visa.