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Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab Reported to the CIA By His Father
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by Amy Judd | December 29, 2009 at 06:05 pm
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Evidence has now surfaced that Flight 253 attempted bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was reported to the CIA by his father Alhaji Uma Abdulmutallab about a month before boarding the plane to Detroit.
His father told the CIA about his son due to his concerns about his son's increasing radicalisation, but the warning was not passed on in full. Alhaji Uma Abdulmutallab reportedly had one face to face meeting with a CIA official and several telephone calls about his fears.
A report was allegedly sent by to the headquarters in Langely but most of it appears to not have been passed on to other departments. The CIA would have had this report for five weeks before the attempted Christmas Day attack.
President Obama did say:
"Weeks ago, this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's name on a no-fly list."
It was known that Mutallab's father did speak to a few officials at the US embassy in Nigeria, but not that the CIA had prepared a report on him.
As the bureaucratic fingerpoining intensified, one source told CNN: "We ended up in a situation where a single point of failure in the system put our security at risk."
However, an intelligence source hit back, saying some details of the report had been passed on by the CIA, including the suspect's name and passport number.
"I am not aware of a magic piece of intelligence that would have put him on the no-fly list," the source told CNN.
Additional information provided in Video Exposes the Truth about US Home-Grown Terrorism.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (14)
at 19:18 on December 29th, 2009
Thanks for this and for the cross-post reference, Amy.
Definitely a lot of 'bureaucratic finger-pointing' going on -- thankfully the plane was able to land safely.
at 20:29 on December 29th, 2009
How did he get a VISA??
at 23:03 on December 29th, 2009
Snuffysmith: The US Embassy in London issued a multiple-entry US visa to the suspect as was discussed in this piece.
My question remains, why didn't either US Embassy in Lagos and US Embassy in London explain their lack of communication with each other? The State Department needs to explain this lapse as well when either of the embassies could have flagged the visa? Just sayin'
at 23:51 on December 29th, 2009
The State Department needs to explain why it issued a visa in the first place when Britain had refused to issue a visa to the suspect. The State Department's visa procedures have managed to escape criticism and scrutiny not only by Obama, but also by his predecessor George Bush after 9/11.
at 13:11 on January 6th, 2010
How and WHERE? I don't know how familiar most American citizens are with the visa process, but it is extremely difficult for any young man from the developing world to obtain even a tourist visa to the US. And pretty much impossible to get it from a third country. Maybe we need to go back. Back to the 1980s to learn how the first WTC bombing mastermind entered the US. How did the Egyptian blind Shiekh Omar Abdul Rahman get a visa to the US from Sudan while being wanted for escaping from prison in Egypt for the assassination of then President Anwar El Sadat. (Yes - a blind man "escaped" from prison...then managed to make it all the way to Sudan...then managed to get a visa). So far, the only explanation I can find is that the US Consul General in Sudan was on vacation and a temporary stand-in made a mistake.I think this Delta attempt is fishy. How and where did this man get his visa?
at 00:26 on December 30th, 2009
I am surprised he was not arrested in Amsterdam.
at 02:56 on December 30th, 2009
I am actually not surprised, once in the system, from one international flight to another, I have never been rechecked in Europe unless u leave the terminal. Obviously if this was still the case, this will change.
at 05:40 on December 30th, 2009
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at 05:56 on December 30th, 2009
Alhaji Uma Abdulmutallab. effcc in nigeria should invesget the man were i got all the money he send to is son. is farther no that the boy is tettorist he send money to him
at 09:48 on December 30th, 2009
Clearly some people were not doing the jobs entrusted to them. It was only by luck, or divine intercession(see that it was Christmas Day), that the explosives didn't go off.
at 00:42 on December 31st, 2009
You don go disgrace Niga , abi God go punish you die
at 11:21 on January 8th, 2010
Umar farouk mutallab, is a disappointment not only to his country, but to human race. am not saying nor including his parents because i don't know how they raised him maybe in their so-called muslim way though.
he may not be an object nor a piece of statue with venom and acid running in his veins. he is not al-qaeda he is not an arab boy, but just a misguided demon trying to make a world headline in such an evil manner of form.
I urge the US to rain and pour down it's full wrath of the crime he committed they should show him no mercy.
As he doesn't value his life neither the USA would help him to keep it. we Nigerians have no terrorist blood, trait running our blood system.
trying be an OSAMA BIN LADEN Replica of sept 911, the US must survive and thrive as a powerful nation no matter the odd. they can't be defeated in this wars of the persian gulf days numbered WAR LORD that crave and seek for human blood killing in the name of Allah [GOD] thus becoming a matyr.
at 12:01 on January 8th, 2010
Farouk mutallab was bred and schooled in the UK he claimed he dabbled and came across al-qaeda website on the internet and became a scholar and disciple of al-qaeda. if this son of destruction is tired of this world why didn't he kill himself?
why must he want to kill innocent souls his co-passengers aboard Detroit bound 253 Airbus plane?
is it in the name of Allah?
or is it in the name of al-qaeda?
the muslims are causing problems and destructions to lives and properties, carry out killings in the name of allah. in Nigeria muslims are plague, the infirmity of it's populace and citizens.
am trying to tell the world at large, that the muslims must not to be taken lightly in any part of this globe as there MUST be another mutallab out there, waiting to spring another un-avoidable catastrophic surprise even in an unsuspectable country. or from any person or class, another mutallab is lying low like a wounded lion waiting with an utmost caution to unleash hell on it's victim/prey.
''like a greedy dog''
''like a hungry dog'' that will doggy it's prey.
mutallab must not be cut loose, he can't be rehabilitated nor bereformed, day of celebration, day of merriment that boy wanted kill souls in such a huge magnitude.
he graduated just last year 2009 the first job he will do with his certificate, is to trade it for terrorism!
at 06:22 on January 26th, 2010
muslims or any body pracising islam should be driven from Nigeria, or better still killed, because they are the problems we have in Nigeria, right from the president to the cattle rearies or security men.