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...Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? Federal authorities say the man suspected of trying to detonate explosives on Northwest Flight 253 as it neared Detroit was a 23-year-old engineering student at University College London. They say he is a Nigerian citizen, and he has reportedly claimed he was on a mission for al-Qaeda and that he had received instructions from Yemen. On Saturday, Abdulmutallab was charged with attempting to destroy the aircraft and with placing a destructive device on the plane. (Read "Nigeria Banker Fears Son Is Alleged Plane Attacker...
...million people split almost evenly between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. Bin Laden is widely admired in the arid, Muslim north. It has become fashionable for some Muslims to name their sons after him, while his picture adorns T-shirts and posters. (Read "Terror on Flight 253: Does It Fit al-Qaeda's Pattern...
...Chicago's Tru for two ("They even let me pick the wine, which they might not do again."). He even had a United-sponsored appearance as a diner on Seinfeld ("I just sat there; they didn't want me to talk"). Last week on his way back from Australia, flight officials boarded his plane in Los Angeles and brought on a birthday cake...
...Stuker, 56, a sales and management trainer for the auto industry, is a purist and says his "butt-in-seat" flights only amount to 8.8 million since he started in 1982. (Counting all miles from flight bonuses and credit card extras, the total is an astronomical 30 million miles.) He says he's still gunning for a pure 10 million of miles his butt has actually flown...
When Stuker gets there, he says, he'll do it in style. "It won't be on a flight to Des Moines or Omaha, I'll take a bus before I cross the mark on one of those flights. It's going to be an international flight, probably Europe with my girlfriend. I'm going to plot it out exactly and know when I hit it. And hell yeah, there is going to be champagne...