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...some 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...
...block in a well-to-do area of central London, conducting a search of a basement apartment owned by the Mutallab family near the university - reported to be worth $4 million - where the suspect, if he is indeed the son of the Nigerian banker, once lived. Home Secretary Alan Johnson didn't release any details of the search, saying only that London police are "working with their American colleagues on the investigation to uncover the full background to the incident...
...many Hong Kongers, including myself, were at last woken from the thrall in which feng shui had held us. Chan couldn't even produce a credible expert witness. Joseph Yu, the Ontario-based feng shui practitioner called as such, revealed that he was almost entirely self-taught, prompting Justice Johnson Lam to remark, "I think there is no need to cross-examine any further." (Watch TIME's video "A Cemetery's Waitlist...
...alleging, regional analysts say it could very well become one if the key players keep crying wolf. "One of the things that the Yemeni government has gotten particularly skilled at doing over the past several years is linking their own domestic crises to larger regional and western concerns," says Johnson, noting that at other times Yemen has attempted to link the Houthis and al-Qaeda, a militant Sunni group that has openly targeted Shi'ites in other contexts, such as Iraq. "I think a large concern now is, given the sniping back and forth between Iran and Saudi Arabia, that...