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Abdulmutallab: Cleric Told Me to Bomb Jet
CBS/AP ^ | Feb. 4, 2010

Posted on 02/04/2010 7:54:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

The suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt told federal investigators that radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki directed him to carry out the attack, CBS News has learned.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for about a week, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al Qaeda affiliate that operates there.

Abdulmutallab has turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher, al-Awlaki, and has helped the U.S. hunt for him in Yemen, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; flight253

1 posted on 02/04/2010 7:54:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And we are broadcasting this valuable intelligence to the enemy.... why?


2 posted on 02/04/2010 7:58:32 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Something about this whole affair stinks. It seems almost like now The Panty Bomber is being primed with what to say. The whole thing seems amatuerish somehow. This is going to blow up and blow up bad.


3 posted on 02/04/2010 7:59:25 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“has been cooperating with the FBI for about a week”

Translation: less than 7 days. in other media reports he has been talking for a “few days”

“has turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher, al-Awlaki, and has helped the U.S. hunt for him in Yemen”

Translation: Even though we are just now getting help to locate al-Awlaki in Yemen, we will announce it publicly so people stop criticizing us for mirandizing this guy.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!! They only got the info days ago and they are letting the bad guys know it???


4 posted on 02/04/2010 8:01:32 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, there you go, and apparently Obama shares the same consciousness of this terrorist.

Whether it is gays in the military or islamic terrorists, America is being forced with alien perverted and retarded consciousnesses it needs not.

Just watch TV and see the consciousness of America, the inuendos, the “you are a f2g islamist communist and you do not know it yet” bull crap.

I have got news to them: worshipping a rock never provided a real consciousness, never saved anyone, and if there is a point of rally (a “Mecca”), it is America.

What is sure is all who come to the US better get their heads straightened out about why they came here. Because the enemies abroad are taking note and are willing to murder all those who answered America’s call by coming here. Even those coming here on a treacherous basis better check the real reasons they came here. They are targets. And that is why an islamist who comes here and fails to convert commits suicide in retarded “honor” to a damn black rock of stupidity.


5 posted on 02/04/2010 8:03:39 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
CBS News has learned.

Translation: CBS News has been informed through its mutually benefical ties with the Obama administration...

6 posted on 02/04/2010 8:06:37 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Idiots...Now alWaki knows we are after him!


7 posted on 02/04/2010 8:09:01 PM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So what did we do, waterboard?!


8 posted on 02/04/2010 9:06:10 PM PST by zorro8987
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obummer pushed this to take some heat off of Holder. Too bad it comes two weeks after the cleric already took credit. This pres is so lame, he’s boring.


9 posted on 02/04/2010 9:22:54 PM PST by trailboss800
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Cleric hell, They are nothing but warlords.


10 posted on 02/04/2010 10:43:03 PM PST by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: icwhatudo

Are they asking for him to be slaughtered by them?


11 posted on 02/04/2010 11:53:19 PM PST by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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