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...concern. British officials barred Abdulmutallab from entering last May after he submitted the name of a questionable school in an application to extend his student visa. That fib bounced him to a U.K. suspicious-persons list. "If you are on our watch list," British Home Secretary Alan Johnson told BBC Radio on Monday, "then you do not come into this country." But under British policy, this information was not shared with U.S. officials because Abdulmutallab had not been linked to terrorism. (Why was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab banned in Britain...
...British government placed Abdulmutallab on its watch list in May after he cited a nonexistent school in his application for a student visa. "If you are on our watch list, then you do not come into this country," Alan Johnson, Britain's Home Secretary, told the BBC on Monday, Dec. 28. (See the Detroit terrorism suspect's Nigeria connections...
...Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha told the BBC that the band was "very, very ecstatic about being number one," giving thanks to the "incredible organic grassroots campaign" behind the movement. Guitarist Tom Morello was slightly more forthright by saying [it has] "tapped into the silent majority of the people in the U.K. who are tired of being spoon-fed one schmaltzy ballad after another." (See Rage Against the Machine in TIME's Top 10 festival moments...
...general secretary, admitted on Dec. 15 that the length of the stoppage was "probably over the top." Passengers, meanwhile, sided firmly with the airline. "It is disgusting that BA staff realize they can throw their weight around and ruin so many people's holidays," Londoner Anthea Barteau told the BBC. "I feel like I have had my stomach kicked out by a bunch of overpaid waiting staff," said another, Aoin Douglas of Liverpool. Cabin crew at BA typically earn more than those of any other British airlines and twice as much as those of rival Virgin Atlantic. (Read "Will...
...arrested and charged with plotting a gun attack on a military barracks near Sydney. The group has made clear that it views the United States as a potential adversary. After al-Shabab was added to America's list of terrorist nations, a senior operative, Sheik Muktar Robow, told the BBC he was pleased. "Al-Shabab feels honored to be included on the list. We are good Muslims and the Americans are infidels," he said. "We are on the right path...