Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Christmas Day Terror Attack on Jet Foiled in Detroit
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/abdulmutallab.html
News stories on Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to set off
explosive device on Christmas Day, as it descending on Detroit's airport
January 10, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- London Times: "Human rights gagged MI5 over Abdulmutallab - Intelligence
on Muslim radicals cannot be passed to the US because of privacy fears"
--- London Times: "MI5 failed to alert America to intelligence highlighting the
extremist links of the Detroit plane bomber because of concerns about breaching
his human rights and privacy."
--- "MI5 has privately conceded that as early as 2006 its surveillance
operations had picked up 'multiple communications' between the 23-year-old
Nigerian student and suspected terrorists in Britain."
--- "Asked why that information had not been passed to the US, a Home Office
official with detailed knowledge of the case said the security service did not
pass information to its allies about the thousands of Britons who were merely
suspected of having radical Islamic views."
--- "An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that dozens of Britons have
travelled to the impoverished Arab country and stayed at colleges linked by US
authorities to Al-Qaeda. While many attend the institutions legitimately to
study a hardline version of Islam, some end up supporting the jihad."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6982393.ece
-- Report blaming misspelling for letting terror suspect on flight contains
errors
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100108/METRO/1080449/1361/Report-blaming-misspelling-for-letting-terror-suspect-on-flight-contains-errors
-- FBI Tracks Abdulmutallab's Steps in Ghana
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/world/main6071394.shtml
-- What the US knew about Al-Qaeda plot
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hnrVH1UuyhyMyMQKmlozYcDNgaDw
January 9, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- CBS: Terror Suspect Abdulmutallab Boasted 20 Other Muslim Men Being
Prepared in Yemen to Mimic Christmas Bomb Plot
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/cbsnews_investigates/main6073415.shtml?tag=stack
-- Bomb suspect faces accusers; terrorism case may take months
http://www.freep.com/article/20100109/NEWS01/1090351/?imw=Y
-- PDF of Abdulmutallab Indictment
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/C414969718-010810.pdf
January 8, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Accused Underwear Bomber Abdulmutallab Pleads Not Guilty
--- Plea Comes as Experts Debate Whether He Should Even Be in Court
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/umar-farouk-abdulmutallab-pleads-guilty-attempted-plane-bombing/story?id=9510524
-- Abdulmutallab: 'Not guilty' plea in Detroit plane bomb case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8448367.stm
-- another report
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6953334/Detroit-bomb-plot-Abdulmutallab-pleads-not-guilty.html
-- Abdulmutallab impassive in court
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8449660.stm
-- Christmas Plane Attack Case Will Test Defense
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wirestory?id=9509717&page=1
-- Mistakes in Obama Administration's Review of Intelligence Mistakes
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/oops-mistakes-obama-administrations-review-intelligence-mistakes/story?id=9512301
-- Northwest 253 Aftermath: Europe Considering Full-Body Scanners at Airports
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-253-aftermath-europe-full-body-scanners-airports/story?id=9505333
-- Nigeria: Bomb plot forces new look at Lagos airport security
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUhV2ZT_KllDxyiytlajF314cJ8w
January 7, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Obama outlines anti-terrorism flaws, reforms
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/07/obama.terror.report/index.html
-- Obama Forced to 'Order' Follow-Ups of Terrorist Tips
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/shock-obama-forced-order-follow-ups-terrorist-tips/story?id=9502973
-- Obama Orders New Intel Steps After Failed Christmas Day Attack
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/07/obama-deliver-intelligence-review-shock/
--- Summary of Security Review (PDF File - 6 pages)
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/summary.of.wh.review.pdf
-- "Shock" U.S. Report Due on Attempted Airline Attack
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/07/us/politics/politics-us-security-airline-usa.html
-- Obama security adviser says bomb report a shocker
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6062S920100107
-- Obama to Release Report on Terror Attempt Thursday
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6063064.shtml
-- U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
-- "Reporting from Washington - U.S. border security officials learned of the
alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing
attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question
him when he landed, officials disclosed Wednesday."
-- Detroit attack: US border guards knew alleged terrorist was on flight
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6944598/Detroit-attack-US-border-guards-knew-alleged-terrorist-was-on-flight.html
-- "WH pushes back on Leiter story"
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/01/07/2167941.aspx
-- NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day
airline bombing attempt
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_antiterror_chief_took_ski_pass_remained_on_slopes_after_christmas_bomb_attempt.html
http://bit.ly/4ZFTwm
-- UK: Row over claim that Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab was radicalised in
London
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6980072.ece
-- UK: Airline bomb plot accused 'joined al-Qaida in London'
--- Yemen deputy PM claims Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab may have met radical cleric
linked to Fort Hood accused
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/07/airline-bomb-plot-alqaida-london
--- Yemen Details Actions of Suspect Before Bomb Attempt
--- NYT: "A senior official here said Thursday that the young Nigerian man
accused of trying to bring down an airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas Day
had met with Qaeda operatives and probably with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical
American-born Internet preacher, in Yemen before setting out on his journey."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/world/middleeast/08yemen.html
-- UK: Detroit bomber mixed with radical preachers in Britain
--- Daily Telegraph: "A review into violent extremism at universities is to be
carried out in the wake of the attempted Detroit bombing."
--- "The review by Universities UK will be chaired by the provost of University
College London, where the terrorist was a student."
--- "Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion think tank said:
'Professor Grant has shamelessly attempted to deflect attention from the very
real problems of radicalisation occurring on the UCL campus.' "
--- "It comes as The Daily Telegraph discloses that a series of radical
preachers were invited to talk at UCL by one of Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab's
close friends."
--- "Qasim Rafiq, who is now a spokesman for the Federation of Student Islamic
Societies, invited speakers who have supported a holy war and called for an
Islamic caliphate."
--- "Yesterday he refused to say whether he supported those concepts himself but
said it was important that universities allowed freedom of speech as long
speakers did not promote hatred or violence."
--- "Rafiq invited Taji Mustafa a spokesman for the group Hizb ut-Tahrir to
speak at the university in November 2005 as part of a series of lectures called
'Pearls of Wisdom' "
--- "When Abdulmutallab took over from Rafiq as president of the university's
Islamic society, they invited Asim Qureshi who had called on Muslims at a Hizb
ut-Tahrir rally the previous year to support fighting in Chechnya, Kashmir,
Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/6937391/Detroit-bomber-mixed-with-radical-preachers-in-Britain.html
--- Plane-Bomb Suspect May Have Met With Radical Cleric in Yemen
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126286293183119465.html
-- Nigerians React Negatively to al-Qaeda Claims
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_me/2010-01-07/014377926438.html
January 6, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Nigerian man indicted in plot to blow up plane
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/06/detroit.bomb/
-- PDF of indictment
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/01/06/abdulmutallab.pdf
-- AP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100106/ap_on_re_us/us_airline_attack
-- NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/us/07indict.html
-- U.S. airliner attack could provide new intelligence
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6053S320100106
-- Obama to meet top White Hosue counter-terrorism expert on natl security
glitch
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2052465&Language=en
January 5, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Washington DC Islamic Supremacist Imam Blames Christmas Day Terror Attack
on U.S. and Israel
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/washington-dc-islamic-supremacist-imam-blames-christmas-day-terror-attack-on-u-s-and-israel/
-- "Washington DC Imam Abdul Alim Musa: Attempted Christmas Day Plane Bombing -
the Work of US Government and the Mossad"
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2326.htm
--- Transcript
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2326.htm
--- "Imam Abdul Alim Musa (born 1945; Clarence Reams) is a Muslim American
activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.. He is a member of
the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) and a well-known speaker
around the world. He is founder and director of As-Sabiqun."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alim_Musa
-- Bombing suspect provided 'actionable intelligence,' White House says --
after arrest
--- CNN: "The FBI attained "actionable intelligence" from bombing suspect Umar
Farouk AbdulMutallab in the first hours after his arrest on Christmas Day, White
House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/05/terror.suspect/index.html
-- Obama: System Failed in 'Potentially Disastrous Way'
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/obama-briefed-terror-plot-reviews-meeting-national-security/story?id=9484260
-- Obama: 'System failed' in a major way
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/05/obama.terror.meeting/index.html
-- Obama: Airline attack was preventable
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34679532/ns/us_news-airliner_security/
-- Obama: U.S. Intelligence Should Have 'Uncovered' Christmas Day Plot
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/05/obama-meets-agency-heads/
-- Netherlands: Suspected Plane Bomber Raised No Suspicion in Amsterdam,
Prosecutors Say
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582031,00.html
-- When Did White House Know of Terror Attack Plot?
--- Newsweek talks about Saudi CT discussion of explosives being sown into
underwear
http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=60440013001&l=49480684001
-- Obama: U.S. Intelligence Should Have 'Uncovered' Christmas Day Plot
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/05/obama-meets-agency-heads/
-- Obama vows changes to prevent future terrorism intelligence lapses
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-terror6-2010jan06,0,1084370.story
-- Obama to get update on terror plot inquiry
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/05/obama.terror.meeting/
-- President Will Push Today for Intelligence Community to Constantly Challenge
Its Assumptions
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/01/president-will-push-today-for-intelligence-community-to-constantly-challenge-its-assumptions.html
-- Obama to Meet With Security Officials, Unveil Reforms
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/05/obama-announce-new-airline-safety-measures/
-- Obama on impact on Guantanamo Bay Closure
http://www.thefoxnation.com/detroit-airliner-terror-plot/2010/01/05/obama-gitmo-root-cause-christmas-terror-plot
-- U.K. Didn't See Suspect as Threat
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126270285039316445.html?mod=article-outset-box
-- UK: White House accuses Downing Street of making 'a mistake' over
intelligence claim
--- Daily Telegraph: "The White House has accused Downing Street of making "a
mistake" over allegations that Britain told American intelligence agents more
than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6934672/White-House-accuses-Downing-Street-of-making-a-mistake-over-intelligence-claim.html
-- Downing Street blunders over Detroit plane bomber
--- London Times: "Downing Street was today forced to retreat from its claim
that MI5 warned US intelligence over the alleged Christmas Day plane bomber – in
the face of a blunt denial from America."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6976567.ece
-- Pressure on Barack Obama to reveal what Britain said about Detroit bomber
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6938334/Pressure-on-Barack-Obama-to-reveal-what-Britain-said-about-Detroit-bomber.html
-- UK: Britain says had no warning of plane bomb plot
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6044SC20100105
-- UK: Islamic Supremacist Hate Rants Found on Videos Sold in UK Bookstore
Near Mosque - that was "regularly attended" by Abdulmutallab -- Anwar al-Awlaki
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/uk-islamic-supremacist-rants-on-video/
-- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) report on CNN:
"Muslim-American group criticizes TSA plan as profiling"
--- CNN: "Enhanced screening procedures for U.S.-bound air passengers traveling
through "state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest" such as
Pakistan, Yemen and Nigeria amount to religious profiling of Muslims, the
Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday."
--- "The Transportation Security Administration announced the strengthened
security steps Sunday, saying that 'effective aviation security must begin
beyond our borders.' "
--- "A senior government official, not authorized to speak on the record,
provided CNN with the list of 14 countries subject to the enhanced screening for
travelers heading to the United States: Cuba, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan,
Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and
Yemen."
--- "The new guidelines target 13 Muslim-majority nations and will
'disproportionately target American Muslims who have family or spiritual ties to
the Islamic world,' the Council on American-Islamic Relations said, adding that
the tougher measures 'amount to religious and ethnic profiling' "
--- CNN quotes CAIR's Nihad Awad -- "A TSA spokesperson, Kristin Lee, responded
that 'TSA does not profile.' "
--- " 'As is always the case, TSA security measures are based on threat, not
ethnic or religious background,' Lee said."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/04/tsa.measures.muslims/
--- No mention by CNN of CAIR's leadership support for Hamas - same Nihad Awad
quoted by CNN
http://www.investigativeproject.org/223/cairs-awad-in-support-of-the-hamas-movement
http://www.investigativeproject.org/627/cair-remains-apologist-for-terrorist-hamas-seeks-to-silence
--- No mention by CNN of CAIR's links to anti-freedom Muslim Brotherhood group
http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/172
--- No mention by CNN of CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator organization in
the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial (page 5, III.11)
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Attachment+A+(List+of+Unindicted+Co-conspirators).pdf
--- Dallas Morning News: "FBI: CAIR is a front group, and Holy Land Foundation
tapped Hamas clerics for fundraisers"
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/fbi-cair-is-a-front-group-and.html
-- Nigeria: Govt Protests U.S. List of Terrorist Nations
http://allafrica.com/stories/201001050013.html
-- US revoking 'additional visas'
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/us-revoking-additional-visas-after-plane-plot/story-e6frfkui-1225816466530
January 4, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- UK: Detroit bomber intelligence was passed to Americans, Gordon Brown
claims
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6932010/Detroit-bomber-intelligence-was-passed-to-Americans-Gordon-Brown-claims.html
-- UK: Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6011A520100102
-- Obama to meet security team as watch lists grow
http://bit.ly/87EFyp
-- Obama promises justice for Christmas terror plotters
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/02/obama.terrorist.response/
-- Countries slow to beef up airport screening
--- Enforcement of new U.S. security rules appears spotty around the world
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34693091/ns/us_news-airliner_security/
-- U.S. Tightens Airport Screening for Five African Nations
http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00011036.html
-- EU to reconsider issue of body scanners at airports
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2051812&Language=en
-- At Airports, Security Changes Gradually
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/airport-security/story?id=9474217
-- US-bound passengers from 14 countries face new airport security
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0104/US-bound-passengers-from-14-countries-face-new-airport-security
-- Private Intel Service Warned of 'Catastrophic' Airline Attack Deploying
Same Bombing Method Used Against Saudi Official
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/01/04/private-intel-service-warned-of-catastrophic-airline-attack-deploying-same-bombing-method-used-against-saudi-official.aspx
-- TSA tries to assuage privacy concerns about full-body scans
--- "Add the "full-body scan" to the list of indignities that some travelers are
confronting in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era of vigilance."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010301826.html?hpid=sec-nation
January 3, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- UK: MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's UK extremist links - did not
share with U.S.
--- London Times: "The security services knew three years ago that the Detroit
bomber had 'multiple communications' with Islamic extremists in Britain, it
emerged this weekend."
--- "Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was 'reaching
out' to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at
University College London."
--- "None of the information was passed to American officials, which will prompt
questions about intelligence failures prior to the attack."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6973954.ece
-- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had links with London campaign group
--- London Times: "The suspect in the attempted Detroit plane bomb had links
with a London campaign group that has championed Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda
cleric."
--- "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab invited two speakers from Cageprisoners to an
event that he organised as president of the Islamic Society at University
College London (UCL). The organisation, which campaigns on behalf of Muslim
prisoners, including convicted terrorists, developed close ties to al-Awlaki
after his release from detention in Yemen in 2007."
--- "The American-born cleric, who counselled two of the 9/11 hijackers, was
invited to address Cageprisoners’ Ramadan fundraising dinners in 2008 and 2009
and there is extensive material about and by him on its website. Mr
Abdulmutallab, 23, who is charged with trying to detonate a bomb on a Northwest
Airlines flight landing in Detroit on Christmas Day, told the FBI that he met
al-Awlaki in Yemen before his terrorist mission."
--- "US counter-terrorism authorities believe that Mr Abdulmutallab began his
radicalisation in Britain, where he was a mechanical engineering undergraduate
in 2005-08. The British arm of the investigation is focused on who Mr
Abdulmutallab met and had contact with at that time and his connection to
Cageprisoners is understood to be part of the intelligence picture."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6974702.ece
-- U.S. terrorism czar: Christmas Day plot 'not like 9/11'
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/03/brennan.plane.terror/index.html
-- Newsweek: "The Radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab"
http://www.newsweek.com/id/229047
January 2, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Obama Links Christmas Day Terrorist Attempt to al-Qaida
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Obama-Links-Christmas-Day-Terrorist-Attempt-to-al-Qaida-80496747.html
-- Obama: Al-Qaeda trained alleged jet bomber
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6973740.ece
-- UK: The anatomy of a suicide bomber
-- "The fact remains that British university campuses are a target for groups
such as Hizb ut-Tahrir"
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100102/WEEKENDER/701019622/1306
-- Who Will Take Responsibility for the Islamic Radicalisation at UCL?
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/01/02/who-will-take-responsibility-for-the-islamic-radicalisation-at-ucl/
-- ABC: Does Rehab for Terrorists Work?
-- Said Ali al-Shihri Went Through 12-Step Terrorist Rehab Before 'Underwear
Bomb' Plot
http://abcnews.go.com/International/guantanamo-release-saudi-rehab-ali-al-shihri-now/story?id=9458164
-- "Wacky jihad therapy failed to 'cure' plane-bomb plotter"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/art_jDhj2e2aUxSz5tTyhngztI
-- "How a middle-class Nigerian boy was seduced by Al Qaeda into trying to
blow up a transatlantic jet"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240000/Umar-Farouk-Abdulmutallab-Inside-lonely-warped-mind-middle-class-suicide-bomber.html
-- Ron Paul Supporting "Libertarian" Group Mocks Reports of Threats by
Al-Qaeda -- David Kramer
http://bit.ly/4LRRPx
-- Second Passenger From Northwest Terror Flight Held, Released
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581738,00.html
January 1, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Obama's aides begin briefing him on homeland-security problems
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/80460127.html
-- US officials to review security measures with intl airport leaders
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2051250&Language=en
-- Official: Apparent contact between AbdulMutallab and radical cleric
--- "Terror suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab appears to have had direct
contacts with radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. counterterrorism
official told CNN Thursday."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/31/abdulmutallab.terror.radical.cleric/index.html
-- U.S.-Yemeni cleric was 'very aware' of Nigerian -- (spells name differently
Anwar al-Aulaqi)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34650399/ns/world_news-washington_post/
-- Focus on Internet Imams as Recruiters for Al Qaeda
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/us/01imam.html
-- Detroit bomber: suspect started journey in Ghana, Nigeria says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/6918614/Detroit-bomber-suspect-started-journey-in-Ghana-Nigeria-says.html
-- Nigeria Failed to Use Airport Scanners Provided By The United States
http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/9866
-- Nigeria: Religious hatred simmers in terror suspect's homeland
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/12/30/Nigeria.violence/
-- UK reviews security, screening after Detroit attack
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60000B20100101
-- Gordon Brown orders airport security review
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8436758.stm
-- UK: Police search property in hunt for Detroit bomber's British network
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6917559/Police-search-property-in-hunt-for-Detroit-bombers-British-network.html
-- Double life of 'gifted and polite' terror suspect Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6973007.ece
-- Somali's release is blow to Detroit-plane probe -- already freed
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/80460287.html
-- U.S. State Department changing how visa information handled, source says
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/31/terror.visas/
December 31, 2009 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Detroit bomber: US intelligence 'insufficiently aggressive' in pursing
leads
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6916968/Detroit-bomber-US-intelligence-insufficiently-aggressive-in-pursing-leads.html
-- Obama to Get First Reports of Probe Into Christmas Day Terror Attempt
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Obama-to-Get-First-Reports-of-Probe-Into-Christmas-Day-Terror-Attempt-80405767.html
-- Detroit terror attack: fears over wave of al-Qaeda syringe bomb attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6912382/Detroit-terror-attack-fears-over-wave-of-al-Qaeda-syringe-bomb-attacks.html
-- U.S.: "Spy agencies failed to collate clues before flight - Eavesdropping
evidence was not synthesized with other intelligence"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34637190/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/
--- NYT: "The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations
among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a
coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine the
intercepts with other information that might have disrupted last week’s
attempted airline bombing."
--- "The electronic intercepts were translated and disseminated across
classified computer networks, government officials said on Wednesday, but
analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington did not
synthesize the eavesdropping intelligence with information gathered in November
when the father of the would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, visited the
United States Embassy in Nigeria to express concerns about his son’s
radicalization."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34637190/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/
-- U.S.: Terror suspect attended 2008 Islamic 'knowledge fest' in Houston,
Texas
--- CNN: "The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on
Christmas Day attended an Islamic 'Knowledge Fest' in Houston, Texas, in 2008,
according to one of the organizers of the event."
--- "Yasir Qadhi, who was an instructor at 'Ilm Fest,' said the 16-day
conference organized by the Al Maghrib Institute was a series of courses and
workshops to teach young Muslims 'the nuts and bolts of Islam.' "
--- "The Al Maghrib Institute has chapters in the United States, Canada and the
United Kingdom, and has taught more than 30,000 young Muslims in its courses."
--- "Qadhi, of New Haven, Connecticut, has been involved in de-radicalization
efforts in the United States and was a leading participant in the U.S.
Counter-Radicalization Strategy conference organized by the National
Counterterrorism Center in the summer of 2008."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/30/terror.suspect.seminar/
-- Yemeni officials eye Abdulmutallab link to radical cleric
-- Washington Post: "Yemeni investigators believe the Nigerian man who allegedly
attempted to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day may have met with suspected
al-Qaeda operatives in a house used by a radical Yemeni American cleric, a
senior Yemeni official said Thursday."
-- "In an extensive interview, Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, Yemen's vice prime
minister for defense and security affairs, also said the cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi,
is believed to be alive. It was the first such statement from Yemen's government
on the fate of the U.S.-born preacher, who has been linked to the gunman who
allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov. 5. Obama administration
officials have said they believe Aulaqi was killed in a Dec. 24 airstrike on a
house in southeastern Yemen where he had met with the Nigerian, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101524.html
-- U.S. Transfer of 91 Yemenis home from Guantanamo Bay placed on hold in
wake of Flight 253 bomb plot
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/31/2009-12-31_transfer_of_yemenis_at_gitmo_placed_on_hold.html
-- UK: US airline plot bomber recruited by al-Qaida in London: Report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/US-airline-plot-bomber-recruited-by-al-Qaida-in-London-Report/articleshow/5394850.cms
-- UK: Christmas Day bomber invited 'jihad' cleric to address British
students
-- Daily Mail: "The Christmas Day airline bomber invited a radical cleric who
has advocated dying while 'fighting jihad' to address British students."
-- "While president of the Islamic Society at University College London, Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab helped arrange for Abdur Raheem Green to speak."
-- "The cleric, who converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism, has written that
conflict between Islam and the West is 'ordered in the Koran', and that Muslims
and Westerners ' cannot live peaceably together'."
-- "He has also claimed: 'Dying while fighting jihad is one of the surest ways
to paradise and Allah's good pleasure'. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239543/The-fanatic-invited-jihad-cleric-address-British-students.html
-- UK: Detroit terror attack: stream of British students arrested and
deported from Yemen
--- "A series of British students have been arrested and deported from Yemen in
the last year for allegedly trying to join radical Muslims, it can be
disclosed."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/6911136/Detroit-terror-attack-stream-of-British-students-arrested-and-deported-from-Yemen.html
-- UK - University College of London: "Christmas Day bomb suspect 'not
radicalised at UCL'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8436332.stm
--- November 24, 2009: UK: London University Islamic Society Hosts Hate Advocate
Abu Usamah – who has praised Osama Bin Laden
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/uk-islamic-society-hosts-abu-usamah/
--- March 11, 2006 - "farouk1986" (reportedly Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab)
promotes University College of London Union Islamic Society postings by Yvonne
Ridley
http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?showtopic=27175&st=20&p=263412&#entry263412
-- Nigerian May Have Used Course in Yemen as Cover
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/world/middleeast/01yemen.html
December 30, 2009 Abdulmutallab Reports
CIA Prepared Report on Nigerian Terror Suspect Before Attempted Attack, Sources
Say
-- FOX News: "The CIA's Africa desk had been preparing a report on the suspect
in the Christmas Day airline plot well before the attempted attack but did not
distribute it because the analyst in charge was waiting for pictures of the
young Nigerian, Fox News has learned."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/30/fingerpointing-begins-aftermath-attempted-terror-attack/
-- CIA rejects charge it failed to share bomb suspect intelligence
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnQm1L-QjpmvhWwx1CKBJx-8XW4Q
-- Detroit terror attack: CIA had report on suspect five weeks before bomb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6909184/Detroit-terror-attack-CIA-had-report-on-suspect-five-weeks-before-bomb.html
US aware 'Nigerian' prepared for terror attack
-- BBC reports: "The US was aware that 'a Nigerian' in Yemen was being prepared
for a terrorist attack - weeks before an attempted bombing on a US plane."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8434805.stm
-- US intelligence failed to act over 'Nigerian attacker' internet chatter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6971432.ece
-- Flight 253 attack by 'extremist' Abdulmutallab was a 'systemic failure,' says
President Obama
--- NY Daily News: "Obama said he had 'serious concerns' about the bureaucratic
logjam that kept officials from acting on both a warning from the bomber's
father and newly disclosed intelligence warnings that a Nigerian might be on an
Al Qaeda terror mission."
http://bit.ly/77LHDc
-- Northwest 253: Obama Blasts Intelligence Failures as Evidence of Missed
Signals Mounts
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-253-obama-hits-missed-signals/story?id=9442883
-- U.S. Had Early Signals of a Terror Plot, Obama Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=1
-- Timeline of Terror: Clues in Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's Past
http://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-terror-clues-bomber-umar-farouk-abdulmutallabs-past/story?id=9449255
-- Detroit bomber wanted Muslims to 'rule the whole world'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6907793/Detroit-bomber-wanted-Muslims-to-rule-the-whole-world.html
-- UK: Detroit terror attack - Failed bombing highlights danger of Britain,
says US
--- Daily Telegraph: "The failed terrorist attack on Flight 253 carried out by a
young Muslim radicalised in London underlines that one of the biggest threats to
the United States is posed by Britain, according to senior American
policymakers."
--- "Abdulmutallab, 23, was president of the Islamic Society at University
College, London and spent formative years from 2005 to 2009 in the British
capital. In January 2007, he sponsored a 'War on Terror Week' that was harshly
critical of US policy."
--- " 'The British have an immense problem,' said Charles Allen, a
recently-retired veteran CIA officer who was intelligence chief at the
Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6913448/Detroit-terror-attack---Failed-bombing-highlights-danger-of-Britain-says-US.html
-- UK: Bomb suspect staged 'terror' conference in London
--- UK Press Association (UKPA): "A series of lectures were held at the UCL from
January 29 2007 to February 2 2007, including one called 'Jihad Vs Terrorism' "
--- "It was billed as a 'lecture on the Islamic position with respect to Jihad
and other issues' "
--- "Advertised speakers included Respect MP George Galloway."
--- "A note on posters produced to promote the event said it had been 'approved
by Umar Farook - President of UCLU Islamic Society' "
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gZ6xNRpzhqFfIgZKJ-vQoZC38unA
-- UK: Farouk1986 and the Stoppers
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/12/30/farouk1986-and-the-stoppers/
-- Abdulmutallab Had Passport, Dutch Say
--- "Suspected Terrorist Presented Valid Nigerian Passport, U.S. Visa in
Amsterdam, Contradicting Reports about Airport Accomplice"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/30/world/main6037474.shtml
-- Airliner suicide mission blessed by imam
--- "Washington Times: "The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a
Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by
Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood
shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times."
--- "The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI's interrogation of
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad
training to the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by Mr.
al-Awlaki."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/30/airliner-suicide-mission-blessed-by-imam/
-- Terror Inquiry Looks at Suspect's Time in Britain
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/world/europe/30nigerian.html
-- Correction: Al Qaeda Leader Surrendered in February 2009 - Muhamad Attik
al-Harbi
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/correction-al-qaeda-leader-surrendered-february-2009/story?id=9449636
-- Former Guantanamo detainees fuel growing al-Qaeda cell
--- "They include two Saudi nationals: the deputy leader of al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, Said Ali al-Shihri, and the group's chief theological
adviser, Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902289.html
-- Additional Reports: Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror
Plot Were Released by U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-flight-253-al-qaeda-leaders-terror-plot/story?id=9434065
-- Bomb plot 'ringleaders' were freed from Guantanamo Bay
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bomb-plot-ringleaders-were-freed-from-guantanamo-bay-1852811.html
-- TSA subpoenas bloggers, demands sources
--- Agency says new security directive was not supposed to be made public
--- "As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb
onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the
Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a
directive to increase security after the incident."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34636278/ns/us_news-airliner_attack/
-- Obama considering military strikes after Christmas Day aircraft plot
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6972110.ece
-- Yemen: President Obama steps up counterterrorism operations in Yemen
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/30/2009-12-30_prez_shifts_focus_to_yemens_evil_export.html
-- Yemen says forces clash with Qaeda, seize militant
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BT2BB20091230
-- Lack of uniformity for airport screeners across the globe is putting
American fliers at risk
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/30/2009-12-30_little_pay_adds_up_to_big_gap_in_safety.html
-- NY Daily News: "President Obama's initial reaction to recent terrorist act
lacked urgency, decisive leadership"
--- "Obama's description of Abdulmutallab as an 'isolated extremist' was
remarkable and disturbing."
http://bit.ly/7X5jMv
-- Sen. Harry Reid to force vote on TSA nominee Erroll Southers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-terror-tsa30-2009dec30,0,4184054.story
-- US Ponders Full Body Airport Screening After Foiled Airline Bomb Plot
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Ponders-Full-Body-Airport-Screening-After-Foiled-Airline-Bomb-Plot-80362962.html
-- Dutch airport to use full-body scan for U.S. flights
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BT1LF20091230
-- 'Shocked' Nigerians in U.S. Express Fears of Guilt by Association After
Arrest
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/30detroit.html
-- "Nigeria: No Al-Qaeda in Country - Islamic Scholars"
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912300514.html
-- Nigeria: Al-Qaeda - Muttalab Had Much Money - U.S.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912300113.html
December 29, 2009
--
Online Postings by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
December 29 Abdulmutallab Reports
-- Explosive in Detroit terror case could have blown hole in airplane,
sources say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800582.html?hpid=topnews
-- Plane bomber 'carried potent device'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6970196.ece
-- ABC Video: "Suspect's underwear packed with explosives" - 6 inch packet of
PET shown - 80 grams (3 ounces) - 50 grams would rip a plane apart
-- Kevin Barry: "they want put the aircraft all over an American city or all
over an American target, and have it explode as it comes into an American city
to show the effect"
-- Al Qaeda calls Abdulmutallab a hero, and promising a new attack like "nothing
seen before" -- U.S. had not revoked his visa
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9439628
-- Photos of the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Bomb
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-airlines-bomb-photos/story?id=9436297
-- Baby Face of Terror? Stunning New Images of Alleged Flight 253 Bomber
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/slideshow?id=9440504
-- Detroit terror attack: bomber 'assisted by second man'
--- Daily Telegraph: "American lawyer Kurt Haskell, who was standing in line
with his wife Lori on Christmas morning at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, said
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was with a man aged about 50 of Indian appearance in
an expensive suit talking with a ticket agent."
--- "Mr Haskell claims that the second man told the ticket agent Abdulmutallab
was from Sudan and did not have a passport. The ticket agent then referred the
men to her manager down the hall, and Mr Haskell did not see the suspect against
until after the failed bombing attempt."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6902995/Detroit-terror-attack-bomber-assisted-by-second-man.html
-- Christmas Day Northwest Terror Attack Sparks Fiery Racial Profiling Debate
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/christmas-day-terrorist-attack-sparks-racial-profiling-debate/story?id=9438459
-- Detroit terror attack: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab 'defended 9/11'
--- Daily Telegraph reports: "Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab defended
the 9/11 terror attacks on New York, saying they were justified by American
military activity."
--- "The 23-year-old suspect in the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest
Flight 253 is reported to have shocked friends with his hardline views as far
back as 2001."
--- "He is said to have justified the plane attacks by saying that US troops
stationed in Saudi Arabia since the 1991 Gulf War had 'humiliated' Muslims."
--- "One friend said the Nigerian's views had provoked the first row between
them when they discussed the terror attacks in 2006."
--- " 'We were talking about 9/11. I was saying under no circumstances could it
ever be OK to kill all those innocent people. He was much more equivocal,' he
told US papers."
--- " 'He called 9/11 an act of war - American troops were on Saudi soil and had
humiliated Muslim countries so these actions might be necessary. That's the only
time I had an argument with him.' "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6904119/Detroit-terror-attack-Umar-Farouk-Abdulmutallab-defended-911.html
-- Abdulmutallab's bomb plans began with classroom defense of 9/11
--- "He defended 9/11 as an act of war, saying that it might have been necessary
because there were American troops on Saudi soil."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6969075.ece
-- National Post also reports:
-- "Mr. Abdulmutallab was at the British School of Lome, Togo, when the World
Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001."
-- " 'After the 9/11 thing he actually defended the Taliban's actions saying
that they were provoked,' a friend who watched the attack on TV with Mr.
Abdulmutallab told NEXT, a Nigerian newspaper. 'Everyone thought he was kidding
around but he stood his ground.' "
-- "One of his former teachers at the school said that Mr. Adulmutallab had
thought the Taliban had a 'reasonable' take on Islam."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=2386781
-- U.S. plane bomber wanted to study sharia in Yemen
--- Reuters: "A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. airliner told
his parents he wanted to study Islamic sharia law in Yemen shortly before
cutting off contact with them, the Nigerian government said on Tuesday."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BS2FI20091229
-- Online Postings by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/abdulmutallab-postings.html
-- Abdulmutallab's "Jihad Fantasies" Revealed
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/28/eveningnews/main6031388.shtml
-- Plane suspect wrote of jihad
--- "CBS quoted Farouk1986 as saying in a Feb 20, 2005 posting that he had
'jihad fantasies'. 'I imagine how the great jihad will take place. How the
Muslims will win, and rule the whole world,' Farouk1986 wrote"
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_471817.html
--- Post #24: farouk1986: "Alright, i wont go into too much details about me
fantasy, but basically they are jihad fantisies. I imagine how the great jihad
will take place, how the muslims will win insha Allah and rule the whole world,
and establish the greatest empire once again!!!"
http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=7544&view=findpost&p=88037
Detroit terror attack: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation
-- UK: "The London university where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab studied has been
accused of being 'complicit' in the radicalisation of Muslim students."
-- Daily Telegraph Reports:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6906751/Detroit-terror-attack-British-university-complicit-in-radicalisation.html
-- "University College London, where Abdulmutallab was recently president of the
Islamic Society, has been criticised for “failing grotesquely” to prevent
extremists from giving lectures on campus."
-- "UCL has been heavily criticised in the past for its relaxed attitude to
radical preachers, and security agencies are investigating whether it was there
that Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab was recruited by al-Qaeda sympathisers."
-- "As recently as last month, Abu Usama, who teaches that homosexuals and
apostates should be killed, was due to speak at UCL until the university finally
bowed to pressure and cancelled the event."
-- "In 2007, when Abdulmutallab was still a student at UCL, the Islamic Society
held a five-day series of lectures and seminars about the War on Terror which
have been criticised as anti-Western propaganda. The lectures were advertised
with a special five-minute video on YouTube."
--- London Times: "University College London confirmed today that while Mr
Abdulmutallab was a student in London he was president of the university's
Islamic Student Society and had graduated in mechanical engineering."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6970323.ece
-- See also:
--- March 11, 2006 - "farouk1986" (reportedly Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab)
promotes University College of London Union Islamic Society postings by Yvonne
Ridley
http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?showtopic=27175&st=20&p=263412&#entry263412
--- "I usually go to Central Masjid London in Regents Park and i think it is
possible i have seen an IF member."
http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8982&view=findpost&p=85747
http://www.gawaher.com/index.php?showtopic=8982&hl=farouk1986&st=40
-- Muslim Cleric Anwar Awlaki Linked to Fort Hood, Northwest Flight 253
Terror Attacks
-- Muhamad Attik al-Harbi (Muhamad al-Awfi) and Said Ali Shari
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/anwar-awlaki-linked-northwest-flight-253-fort-hood-terror-attacks/story?id=9437561
-- Radical Imam Tied to Terror Plots Has Gone 'Operational' in Yemen
--- Anwar Al-Awlaki "was thought to have been killed in an air strike by Yemeni
forces last week, but that is now unconfirmed."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/29/radical-imam-tied-plots-gone-operational-yemen/
-- Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Northwest Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released
by U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-flight-253-al-qaeda-leaders-terror-plot/story?id=9434065&page=1
-- Napolitano Concedes Airline Security System Failed
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9432627
-- US investigates why jet bomb suspect still had visa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8432934.stm
-- Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800582.html
-- TSA Looks to Expand Use of Full-Body Scanners at U.S. Airports
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/29/tsa-looks-expand-use-body-scanners-airports/
-- Obama: 'Human and Systematic Failure' to Blame in the Terror Plot
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/obama-criticism-response-northwest-flight-253-terror-plot/story?id=9439744
-- Obama assures Americans after failed plane attack
--- Reuters: "Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, made his first public
statement about Friday's failed attempt to down a plane over U.S. soil,
promising to track down anyone connected to it."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BR35T20091229
-- President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6970323.ece
--- October 2009: Obama Adviser Mogahed Joins Hizb ut-Tahrir in Interview
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/white-house-advisor-interviewed-by-anti-democratic-hizb-ut-tahrir-group/
-- Toobin: Civilian courts likely to handle bomb case
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/29/toobin.plane.bomb.civilian.court/index.html
-- Netherlands: "Al-Qaeda practices beating body scanners"
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/%E2%80%9Cal-qaeda-practises-beating-body-scanners%E2%80%9D
http://bit.ly/8U0rJD
-- Passengers face months of delays due to new bomb threat
--- "heightened security measures are introduced amid fears that terrorists are
close to producing an “undetectable” bomb"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6901219/Passengers-face-months-of-delays-due-to-new-bomb-threat.html
-- Nigeria: Accused in bombing attempt exhibited early danger signs,
neighbour says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/accused-in-bombing-attempt-exhibited-early-danger-signs-neighbour-says/article1412988/
-- Yemeni minister says airline terrorist received education in Yemen
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2050707&Language=en
-- Yemen: U.S. Turns to Strained Yemeni Leader
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126211787251809321.html#articleTabs_slideshow
-- Yemen: 'Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants planning attacks from Yemen'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6970574.ece
-- Yemen: US never warned us about airline bomber
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_us_airliner_attack
-- Western counter-terrorism help 'not enough for Yemen'
-- BBC: "Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told the BBC that Yemen had the will
and ability to deal with al-Qaeda, but was undermined by a lack of support."
-- "He estimated that several hundred al-Qaeda members were operating in Yemen
and could be planning more attacks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8433844.stm
-- Yemen: "Following Path of Least Resistance, Terrorists Turn Yemen Into Poor
Man's Afghanistan"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/27/following-path-resistance-terrorists-turn-yemen-poor-mans-afghanistan/
Yemen terror camps attract 'stream of Britons'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/28/yemen-terror-camps-britons
Yemen is fertile territory for extremism as it tears itself apart
-- "Sharia law has largely replaced secular legal systems over the past decade"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/28/yemen-extremism-al-qaida
-- UK: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab applied for UK visa to study life coaching
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6971041.ece
-- UK: Was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab radicalized in London?
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1228/Was-Umar-Farouk-Abdulmutallab-radicalized-in-London
-- UK: Home Secretary Alan Johnson in row over watchlist sharing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6901084/Alan-Johnson-in-row-over-watchlist-sharing.html
December 28, 2009 - P.M.
Al-Qaeda Declares Responsibility for Attempted Christmas Jet Bomb
Attack
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/aq_declares_responsibility.html
December 28, 2009 - A.M. - Reports on Abdulmutallab Foiled Terror Plot
If Device On Detroit-Bound Flight Had Worked, Explosion Could Have Been
'Enormous'
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/detroit_flight_explosive_threa.html
-- Explosive on Flight 253 Is Among Most Powerful
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/28explosives.html
-- Detroit terror attack: explosives 'could have destroyed plane'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6898212/Detroit-terror-attack-explosives-could-have-destroyed-plane.html
-- Detroit terror attack: reconstruction of Northwest Flight 253
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6895927/Detroit-terror-attack-reconstruction-of-Northwest-Flight-253.html
Abdulmutallab: More Like Me In Yemen
-- Accused Northwest Bomber Says More Bombers On the Way; Al Qaeda Promises to
Hit Americans
-- ABC: "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with the attempted Christmas Day
bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, told FBI agents there were more just
like him in Yemen who would strike soon."
-- "And in a tape released four days before the attempted destruction of the
Detroit-bound Northwest plane, the leader of al Qaeda in Yemen boasted of what
was planned for Americans, saying, 'We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of
God.' "
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abdulmutallab-yemen/story?id=9430536
UK Sun: 25 Brits in Jet Plots
-- Sun reports: "Cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb
Western airliners."
-- "The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in
Yemen."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2785733.ece
Global Probe of Bomb Suspect
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126192334798506391.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
-- Graphic of journey of terrorist Abdulmutallab
http://bit.ly/6kF1Gc
-- Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800582.html
Detroit terror attack: Yemen is the true home of Al-Qaeda
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6898945/Detroit-terror-attack-Yemen-is-the-true-home-of-Al-Qaeda.html
Yemen: Al-Qaida group linked to Detroit plot boosts role
http://detnews.com/article/20091228/METRO/912280324/1423/LIFESTYLE10
-- Yemen arrests 29 al Qaeda suspects after raids
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BR0WO20091228
-- Yemen is focus of new US front against al Qaeda
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6969378.ece
Nigerians Said to Be Disappointed Yet Skeptical about Terror Allegations
-- Voice of America: "Kabiru Mato, head of the political science department at
the University of Abuja said Nigerians are disappointed and skeptical about the
allegations against Abdulmutallab."
-- "'I think the reaction in Nigeria is that of some extent disappointment and
some extent casting very serious doubts on the ability of the young man to carry
out the crime that he is being accused of,' he said."
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/butty-nigeria-us-terror-react-28dec09-80185592.html
Nigeria: Family says Nigeria attacker had cut off contact
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE5BR0GT20091228?type=usDollarRpt
-- Plane bomb suspect's family warned authorities of his Islamic radicalization
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/28/plane-bomber-family-warning
After United 93, Air Travelers React to Threats
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581218,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r5:c0.063663:b29542298:z10
U.S. vows tighter air security
http://detnews.com/article/20091228/METRO/912280365/1423/LIFESTYLE10/U.S.-vows-tighter-air-security
-- For International Airline Passengers, Pat-Downs, Searches and Restroom
Monitors
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/28security.html?_r=1&ref=us
-- TSA Guidance for Passengers on Heightened Security Measures in Place
Following Dec. 25 Incident
http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/dec25_guidance.shtm
--- Detroit terror attack: Airport misery continues -- Daily Telegraph report on
international airlines delays
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6899683/Detroit-terror-attack-Airport-misery-continues.html
--- London Times: "Passengers face security crackdown after failed airliner bomb
plot"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6969073.ece
U.S.: Obama joins lawmakers in calling for security review in wake of terror
attempt
http://detnews.com/article/20091227/METRO05/912270321
U.S.: White House Orders Review of "No Fly" List
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/27/white-house-orders-review-of-no-fly-list/
U.S.: Equipment to detect explosives is available
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122702021.html
U.S.: Domestic Terror Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1949329,00.html
-- Most Domestic 'Jihadists' Are Educated, Well-Off
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1947703,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom
Washington Post: "it is hardly reassuring to argue, as Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano did on ABC's 'This Week,' that 'once the incident
occurred, the system worked.' The attack was averted because of the luck of a
faulty detonator and the quick response of alert passengers"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701655.html
Additional Reports: Christmas Day Terror Attack on Jet Foiled in Detroit
Michigan: Terror suspect out of hospital, held at undisclosed location
-- Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/27/airline.terror.suspect/index.html
Continuing coverage: Terrorist threat on Flight 253
http://detnews.com/article/99999999/METRO/91226001/1423/LIFESTYLE10&template=theme&theme=METRO-TERRORISM
New Detroit scare declared 'non-serious'
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/27/michigan.airplane.disruption/index.html
Al Qaida bomb threat days before jet attack
http://bit.ly/6fZpKN
Too early to say attack tied to Al-Qaeda: Napolitano
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091227/pl_afp/usattacksnigeriaspeculation
-- Janet Napolitano says there's no evidence of a wider terrorist plot
http://bit.ly/8ymNjM
Detroit terror attack: 25,000 passengers hit by delays at British airports
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6896000/Detroit-terror-attack-25000-passengers-hit-by-delays-at-British-airports.html
Al-Qaeda group in Yemen gaining prominence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122702022.html?nav=rss_email/components
UK: Detroit terror attack: MI5 hunt for bomber's accomplices
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6897123/Detroit-terror-attack-MI5-hunt-for-bombers-accomplices.html
UK: Did London turn him to terror? Two tourist trips, three years as a
student, then off to join Al Qaeda
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238821/Did-London-turn-terror-Two-tourist-trips-years-student-join-Al-Qaeda.html
UK: Terror plot raises questions over student visas
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6895401/Terror-plot-raises-questions-over-student-visas.html
London Times: Our false sense of security should end here: al-Qaeda never
went away
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6969076.ece
Initial CNN Video report on Christmas Plane Terror Attack
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/12/26/robertson.lok.london.terror.cnn
-- CNN reports on Abdulmutallab
http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=Abdulmutallab&primaryType=mixed&sortBy=date&intl=false
-- Google News reports on Abdulmutallab
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Abdulmutallab
-- Yahoo News reports on Abdulmutallab
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?ei=UTF-8&c=&p=Abdulmutallab
Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being taken off Northwest Flight 235 (CNN)
Investigators: Northwest Bomb Plot Planned by al Qaeda in Yemen
-- Officials Say Bomb Materials Sewn Into Suspect's Underwear by Top Terror Bomb
Maker
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-bomb-plot-planned-al-qaeda-yemen/story?id=9426085
-- Airline terror suspect tied to Yemen al-Qaida?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34596744/ns/us_news-security/
Officials: Only A Failed Detonator Saved Northwest Flight
-- "Screening Machines May Need to Be Replaced; Al Qaeda Aware of 'Achilles
heel'"
-- "Clarke said full body scans were needed, 'but they're expensive and they're
intrusive. They invade people's privacy.' "
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-flight-saved-failed-detonator/story?id=9426532
-- U.S. lacked data to put suspect on no-fly list
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2613148620091227?type=marketsNews
-- Search for answers, tighter security after attack
http://bit.ly/6UUwH4
FBI: "Nigerian National Charged with Attempting to Destroy Northwest Airlines
Aircraft"
http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/de122609.htm
Abdulmuttallab, A Banker's Son Turned Muslim Radical
-- Accused Northwest Bomber's Emails Tell of Desire to Go to Yemen
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abdulmuttallab-bankers-son-turned-muslim-radical/story?id=9426890
Detroit flight terrorism suspect in court Monday
-- Nigerian charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091227/METRO/912270320/Detroit-flight-terrorism-suspect-in-court-Monday
-- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has hearing with US judge at hospital
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/umar_farouk_abdulmutallab_charged_Gp340OskJWHghGrf0XiRyN
-- Suspect Charged in Thwarted Terror Plot
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581180,00.html
-- Suspected al-Qaida attack fails on flight to Detroit
--- U.S. says Nigerian tried to detonate explosive device during landing
--- "We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official
told The Detroit News on condition of anonymity.
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO01/912260356
--- Hoekstra: Attack not aimed at Detroit
---- "Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, said in an interview Saturday afternoon
that the attack at Detroit Metro Airport 'was likely a matter of convenience not
specifically aimed at Detroit.'"
---- "The suspect likely saw "'KLM from Africa as the best way to get to the
United States,' said Hoekstra, who is the ranking Republican on the House
Intelligence Committee"
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260371
-- Flight 253 passenger: 'We heard a pop'
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260355
-- Terror Suspect's Criminal Complaint (pdf)
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Abdulmutallab_Criminal_Complaint.pdf
-- Dutch tourist says he stopped suspect -- Jasper Schuringa
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260365/Dutch-tourist-says-he-stopped-suspect/?imw=Y
-- Flight 253 Passenger Jasper Schuringa Speaks to CNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtvaAfZwgus
-- Jasper Schuringa, Dutchman who subdued Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Flight
253, recalls moment
http://bit.ly/62SIUc
-- Facebook Web Site to Thank Jasper Schuringa
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=234038993872&ref=search&sid=1454301468.3654976977..1
-- Dutch Passenger Hailed as Hero Stopping Attack
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581178,00.html
-- Detroit flight passenger says people screamed to put out fire
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091227/NATION/912270303
-- Terrorism suspect went to bathroom before explosion on Detroit flight
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260367
-- Detroit terror attack: how the 'bomber' tried to blow Flight 253 from of the
sky
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6891345/Detroit-terror-attack-how-the-bomber-tried-to-blow-Flight-253-from-of-the-sky.html
-- Why Bombing Suspect May Have Been Absent From U.S. "No Fly" List
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/12/26/why-bombing-suspect-may-have-been-absent-from-u-s-no-fly-list.aspx
-- Fear and heroism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 after attempted
bombing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601150.html
-- Plane suspect was listed in terror database after father alerted U.S.
officials
--- "studied engineering at University College London"
--- The FBI said the device strapped to Abdulmutallab contained PETN, or
pentaerythritol, which is the same plastic explosive used by al-Qaeda operative
Richard C. Reid in his December 2001 attempt to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner by
igniting a homemade bomb in his shoe"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501355.html
-- Passenger: Terror suspect seemed 'stunned'
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/25/us.airline.incident.passengers/index.html
-- Why did security checks fail to spot explosives?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/27/airline.attack.qanda/index.html
Security ramped up at airports in U.S., UK, Amsterdam
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/26/us.passenger.restrictions/index.html
-- Passengers adjust to tightened security at Detroit airport
---- "'People are showing up really early this morning. They were screening
people at 6 a.m. for 9 and 10 a.m. flights,' Conway said."
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260359
-- New in-flight restrictions ordered in wake of attempted attack
--- TSA: Passengers must remain seated for entire hour before landing
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/airports_step_up_security_on_us_67h157GxTXhxWXMFevcvKO
Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab led life of luxury in London
before attempted attack
http://bit.ly/4M1tau
-- London police hunt airline terror link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/26/airline.attack.london/index.html?iref=allsearch
-- London searches linked to Detroit plane attack
http://www.detnews.com/article/20091226/METRO/912260369
-- Sources: Terror suspect is son of bank executive, attended college
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/26/airliner.attack.suspect/index.html
-- Father of terror suspect reported Mutallab to US Embassy 6 months ago
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/terror_suspect_identified_as_son_kAfc7v8qHr1gFAPt9cQFjJ
Airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was barred from Britain
-- Former student who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet had UK visa request
refused in May
-- London Times: "The son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly
attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight over America, was barred from
returning to Britain earlier this year."
-- "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, graduated from a university in London last
year but his visa request was refused in May when he attempted to apply for a
new course at a bogus college."
-- "Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, attempted to ignite an
explosive device on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day after
shouting about Afghanistan.Bomb materials had apparently been sewn into his
underwear, an authoritative American report said."
-- "For the past two years Abdulmutallab has been on a United States watchlist
for people known to have extremist links, but he was not prevented from flying
to America. UK officials indicated that he had passed across MI5's radar but was
not deemed sufficiently threatening to warrant surveillance"
-- "Abdulmutallab studied engineering for three years at University College
London. His father said yesterday that he had lost contact with his son after he
left London in November last year"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6968539.ece
Airline bomber suspect 'defended Taliban'
-- Daily Telegraph: "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying
to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, defended the Taliban in classroom
discussions, his high school teacher has said."
-- "Abdulmutallab, now 23, believed the Taliban were "right and proper" to blow
up the Bamiyan statues of Buddha in March 2001, said history teacher Mike Rimmer."
-- "The terrorist suspect, accused of trying to detonate a bomb on board the
Airbus A330 as it came in to land at Detroit airport on Christmas Day, also
defended their crackdown on harmless activities such as kite flying. "
-- "At the time Mr Rimmer, a Briton who taught teenage Abdulmutallab at the
British School of Lome in Togo, west Africa, did not think such talk truly
indicated extremist views."
-- "Mr Rimmer described the Nigerian as a "model pupil" who was interested in
world affairs."
-- "He said: "In 2001 we discussed the Taliban in class."
-- " 'All the other Muslim kids thought they were a bunch of nutters with
beards, and could not understand why they did such things as banning kite
flying."
-- " 'But Umar seemed to think that was reasonable. Even when they blew up the
Bamiyan statues he thought that was right and proper.' "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6894196/Airline-bomber-suspect-defended-Taliban.html
Detroit terror attack: suspected bomber pictured outside Buckingham Palace in
2001
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6892386/Detroit-terror-attack-suspected-bomber-pictured-outside-Buckingham-Palace-in-2001.html
Analysis: Detroit terror attack is a major intelligence and security failure
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6891356/Analysis-Detroit-terror-attack-is-a-major-intelligence-and-security-failure.html