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...year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831 ticket for flights from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit and paid for it in cash. He left no contact information with the airline. He checked no bags. 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...
...back to his rented residence on Kailuana Place in Kailua, which is on the opposite side of the island of Oahu from Honolulu. An ambulance was seen rushing toward the home as well. The child of a family friend had suffered an injury.)(See how Obama, Hawaii's favorite son, is perking up the state's holidays...
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...
...place, according to friends. "Farouk was a devoted Muslim who took his religion seriously and was a committed student," Alfred told TIME. "Some people call him ustaz [Arabic for teacher], others call him alfa [Muslim scholar], but he is a complete gentleman." Alfred says that the banker's son took seriously the Islamic recommendation for 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...
Abdulmutallab's father, Alhaji Umar Mutallab, a former Nigerian Government Minister, had warned the U.S. government six weeks ago that his son, a devout Muslim, had dropped out of sight and appeared to be growing more radical. (Mutallab regularly travels to the U.S. for health checkups.) But in response to that warning, Washington simply added Abdulmutallab's name to the more than half a million others on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) roster, the least rigorous of its four watch lists. It basically serves as a repository of suspicious characters; the placement of him on that list required...