Al-Qaeda Terror Attack on U.S. Plane Foiled -Peter Slevin
A Nigerian man, claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda, tried to set off an incendiary device aboard a trans-Atlantic airplane on Christmas Day as it descended toward Detroit's airport.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [pictured above] was accused of trying to bring down the passenger jet with a homemade explosive device.
Jasper Schuringa, an Amsterdam resident, restrained Abdulmutallab as others used blankets and fire extinguishers to douse the flames. Witnesses told the FBI that Abdulmutallab, 23, spent about 20 minutes in the bathroom before returning to his seat and pulling a blanket over his head. Then came a loud and sudden popping sound, followed by smoke and fire.
(Washington Post)
Father Alerted U.S. about Nigerian Plane Bomb Suspect
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day,
warned U.S. authorities last month about his son's extreme views, say officials.
High explosives are believed to have been moulded to the bomber's body and sewn into his underpants [pictured at right].
A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device contained the high explosive PETN, also used in the device worn by British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2001.
(BBC News)
Abdulmutallab: More Bombers on the Way -Brian Ross & Richard Esposito
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told FBI agents there were more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon.
In a[n audio] tape the leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen boasted: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God."
Law enforcement authorities say tragedy was averted only because the bomb's detonator did not work.
(ABC News)
Al-Qaeda Groomed Abdulmutallab in London -Sean O'Neill & Giles Whittell
[T]he Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect, immersed himself in radical politics while a student in London and was former president of the Islamic Society at University College.
Security sources are concerned that the picture emerging of his undergraduate years suggests that he was recruited by al-Qaeda in London. Security sources said that Islamist radicalization was rife on university campuses, especially in London. He is the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years.
(Times-UK)
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A Nigerian man, claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda, tried to set off an incendiary device aboard a trans-Atlantic airplane on Christmas Day as it descended toward Detroit's airport.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [pictured above] was accused of trying to bring down the passenger jet with a homemade explosive device.
Jasper Schuringa, an Amsterdam resident, restrained Abdulmutallab as others used blankets and fire extinguishers to douse the flames. Witnesses told the FBI that Abdulmutallab, 23, spent about 20 minutes in the bathroom before returning to his seat and pulling a blanket over his head. Then came a loud and sudden popping sound, followed by smoke and fire.
(Washington Post)
Father Alerted U.S. about Nigerian Plane Bomb Suspect
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day,
warned U.S. authorities last month about his son's extreme views, say officials.High explosives are believed to have been moulded to the bomber's body and sewn into his underpants [pictured at right].
A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device contained the high explosive PETN, also used in the device worn by British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2001.
(BBC News)
Abdulmutallab: More Bombers on the Way -Brian Ross & Richard Esposito
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told FBI agents there were more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon.
In a[n audio] tape the leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen boasted: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God."
Law enforcement authorities say tragedy was averted only because the bomb's detonator did not work.
(ABC News)
Al-Qaeda Groomed Abdulmutallab in London -Sean O'Neill & Giles Whittell
[T]he Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect, immersed himself in radical politics while a student in London and was former president of the Islamic Society at University College.
Security sources are concerned that the picture emerging of his undergraduate years suggests that he was recruited by al-Qaeda in London. Security sources said that Islamist radicalization was rife on university campuses, especially in London. He is the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years.
(Times-UK)
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