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...Seven months earlier, he had earned himself a spot on a security watch list in Britain after applying for a visa to attend a dubious English university. And when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab broke off contact with his family in October to join the war on the West, his own father reported him as a possible threat at the U.S. embassy in Abuja, where he met with a CIA officer. (Terrorism on Flight 253: Does It Fit al-Qaeda's Pattern...
...after his father visited the U.S. embassy in November and told the CIA of his son's growing radical nature, U.S. officials from at least four agencies met to share the information. But exactly what, if anything, happened next is unclear. Abdulmutallab's name was added to the more than half a million others on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) list. A spot on that roster means ... well, not very much. Abdulmutallab's open visa to visit the U.S., granted in 2008 and valid through June 2010, wasn't revoked once he made that list. Only more-damning evidence...
...episodes that marked Lula's early years and his remarkable rise from poor to powerful. Starting in the scrubland of the northeast, where he was born one of eight kids, it follows him to São Paulo, where he suffered at the hands of an abusive and alcoholic father. It shows him as a boy selling fruit and shining shoes for pennies and then struggling through technical college and winning a job as a metalworker in a car factory...
Nigerian newspapers these days have headlines like "Mutallab: Man Who Shamed Nigeria," as the independent daily Guardian screamed - a reference to the son, not the father, but reflecting on the elder just the same. Many more Nigerians have poured out their outrage in blog posts and on Facebook. "A Nigerian has created an additional problem for us by wanting to blow up an aircraft," the country's Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, lamented at a church service in Abuja. "That means that those Nigerians who travel out of this country will be subjected to unnecessary harassments and searches." (See pictures...
...prayer five times a day. The son was also known for his strong views on the U.S. and Israel. According to a source close to the family, it was an alleged threat to blow up an American plane that apparently alarmed his parents and supposedly resulted in his father going to warn the U.S. embassy. (Why was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab banned in Britain...