A Nigerian terrorist was arrested today after trying to explode a powdery substance taped to his leg on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
The man who suffered second-degree burns told federal investigators that he was directed by al Qaeda.
ABC reported:
Federal officials and police are interviewing a Nigerian man, who allegedly tried to “explode” a powdery substance aboard a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said.
The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information, and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.
The man was apparently already on the government’s no-fly list of suspected terrorists, according to a senior intelligence official.
“The subject is claiming to have extremist affiliation and that the device was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used,” a federal situational awareness bulletin stated.
Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott said that “as the plane was getting ready to land” in Detroit “a passenger caused a disturbance” by trying to ignite what was initially reported to be firecrackers.
The man was “subdued immediately,” Elliott said. Northwest is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta.
The suspect told authorities that he had explosive powder taped to his leg and used a syringe of chemicals to mix with the powder that was to cause explosion. This is of concert because it is a method of mixing that is consistent with terror techniques.
Northwest Airlines flight 253 landed safely in Detroit at 11:53 a.m. The man, who flew from Nigeria to Amsterdam and then Detroit, was taken into custody at the Detroit airport and was interviewed by authorities there. He was then taken to an area hospital to be treated for burns.
Yiid with Lid added that the terrorist was on a federal no fly list.
December 25th, 2009 | 5:19 pm | #1
Don’t worry. He’ll get fixed up and released into America in no time. Who knows. Maybe he’ll even try to commit more acts of jihad against us infidels. Hooray…
*has no faith in our legal system and national security anymore*
December 25th, 2009 | 5:22 pm | #2
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December 25th, 2009 | 5:31 pm | #3
Obamacare will look after the guy. No harm will be done to him as your legal system stinks…
December 25th, 2009 | 5:44 pm | #4
Nothing to see here.Just another “undocumented alien” making a beeline to Nebraska.Confusion on a trans atlantic flight
makes people edgy.
December 25th, 2009 | 5:52 pm | #5
He said Al Qaeda told him to do it, but the authorities don’t seem to believe him “they are questioning the credibility of his statements”. I guess the bomb strap to his leg isn’t proof enough of his intentions.
Nigeria (terrorist nation), Amsterdam (muslim friendly country) and detroit (Al Qaeda headquarters in the US). Not that hard to connect the dots.
We were lucky this time, but it doesn’t seem the government is serious in this war on terror, I’m sorry I mean “man cause disaster”.
December 25th, 2009 | 6:26 pm | #6
Where is all that love because zero is Prez? Just put in Thompson prison give him a ACLU lawyer. PFFFT
December 25th, 2009 | 6:31 pm | #7
They seem to be taking this more seriously now.
On Fox, they reported that it was an “explosive device” that they had never seen before. Supposedly, this guy had training in Yemen from AQ, who, at some point, said they were going to target the US.
Lord Barak has raised the terror alert message.
They’re also saying that an individual aboard the plane stopped the terrorist.
December 25th, 2009 | 6:40 pm | #8
Meanwhile, rumor has it that Zero was seen on the balcony of his $4000 a night Haiwaiin villa resining his bow as he prepares to play the muslim call to prayer on his fiddle.
No, Rome (U.S.) isn’t burning……. yet.
But he will be ready to fiddle his heart out once it is.
December 25th, 2009 | 6:46 pm | #9
If yall will notice the guy was immediatly taken down, I told all my co-workers
the next day after 9/11 there wont ever be a person whom trys trys to take over/blow up a plane that I am in a plane was long as I live!! seems like we have learned. Merry Christmas and happy new year
December 25th, 2009 | 7:06 pm | #10
c’mon folks. If Obama can’t keep people from crashing his parties he’s not going to stop them from crashing our planes.
December 25th, 2009 | 7:24 pm | #11
I can’t wait to see what sort of over reaction TSA will come up with now. I think we’re down to strip searches, but then that’s not going to work so we’ll have orfice searches and x-rays added to that.
December 25th, 2009 | 7:28 pm | #12
Another non p.c., but truthful statement: the first thing on your mind was, is the terrorist muslim?
December 25th, 2009 | 7:36 pm | #13
Two things may cause King Hussein Obama to fall in 2012: 1- Iranian nukes, 2- A terrorist attack in the US
December 25th, 2009 | 7:44 pm | #14
Could this guy’s mission be attempted revenge for our recent de-activation of one of AQ’s top guys in Yemen? Will they be hitting back every time we….nah, don’t wanna think about it.
December 25th, 2009 | 8:05 pm | #15
The authorities said they are unsure of his motive. Let’s see a Muslim terrorist trying to take down a plane on Christmas. No linkage there.
December 25th, 2009 | 8:20 pm | #16
#12 Anonymous December 25th, 2009 7:28 pm
Another non p.c., but truthful statement: the first thing on your mind was, is the terrorist muslim?
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I was pretty sure he was Muslim when the ABC report said a man was in custody, but didn’t give a name or description or background. If he were Russian, or Greek,or Danish, they would have put that info out with the first reports.
December 25th, 2009 | 8:37 pm | #17
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December 25th, 2009 | 8:40 pm | #18
Will he be (or already was) mirandized? By none other most likely than Eric Holder? Will enhanced interrogation techniques be used?
December 25th, 2009 | 8:54 pm | #19
In response to this latest man-made disaster near miss, Homeland Security Secretary Jane Neapolitano said that TSA will step up searches of blue haired old white ladies and veterans returning from War zones…/sarc
December 25th, 2009 | 9:10 pm | #20
Meanwhile, my 65 yr old wife, born in Norway
will be subject to extra attention when she flies.
Muslims will be waved thru security with a smile.
December 25th, 2009 | 9:11 pm | #21
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December 25th, 2009 | 9:12 pm | #22
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December 25th, 2009 | 9:14 pm | #23
Just to clarify, the Northern half of Nigeria is predominantly Muslim, primarily of the Hausa African tribal group (which dominates the military and government). The culture is also more traditional herders, nomads.
The Southern half of Nigeria is predominantly CHristian or Animist (traditional), and even in these predominant areas they are further divided by tribe – the South is home to the Hausa’s political rivals, the Ibo (Biafra) and the Yoruba. Those are the three largest, there are tens more tribal groups, smaller.) Both cultures are more farming/settled in culture, and today dominate the middle class professionals in business, and other sectors, with a high value on education.
The problem is regional – much of West Africa is made up of countries that are pretty much half Muslim (northern) and half Christian with Animists. Ivory Coast is on the splits along that North-South line right thru the middle of the country, somewhat of a stalemate with the French sitting between the two sides.
That line, which runs east-west thru West Africa is the furthest reach of the Arab conquest thru the Sahara, and the slaving as a tactic of conquest.
Saudi Arabia has planted Wahhabist mosques thruout that entire northern zone, west to east, stocked with radical Wahhabist imams. They’ve got easily twenty years of hard core indoctrination injected into what was once a much more laid back area.
Many Nigerians are very pro-USA and many have also been the targets of Muslim extremist attacks egged on by the Saudi trained radical imams in their own country.
With borders crossed constantly by nomads, weak policing, security and military, the entire region is easy infiltrating for Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood.
December 25th, 2009 | 9:53 pm | #24
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December 25th, 2009 | 6:31 pm | #7
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They’re also saying that an individual aboard the plane stopped the terrorist.
With this administration I just hope and pray our “Department of Justice” doesn’t decide to go after this individual instead.
:(
December 25th, 2009 | 10:00 pm | #25
So, let me see if I understand this.
Transportation Security couldn’t find a bag of explosive chemicals strapped to the leg of a foreign national from a terrorist-supporting nation, WHO IS ON THE NO-FLY LIST!!, or the syringe of explosive liquid to be added to the dry chemicals? This wouldn’t have anything to do with political correctness, would it? Not wanting to hurt the feelings or upset the nice black guy? Certainly _ _ _.
That’s all right, though. They probably strip-searched the eighty-year-old granny lady and confiscated her bottle of Prell.
Eternal vigilance!! (My butt!)
December 25th, 2009 | 10:34 pm | #26
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/12/26/great-merry-freaking-christmas-from-al-qaeda-wonder-if-obama-is-getting-the-message-yet/
From my website. I comment on a number of things, but what caught my attention the most was how our government in it’s infinite wisdom admitted the guy was already on a watch list and shouldn’t have been on the plane. WHAT??!
Hey, as a former police detective I can tell you there are a few things you never admit- this is one of them. It is far better to stick your hands in your pocket and look around innocently while whistling than admit you are so incompetent and stupid you let a man who shouldn’t fly BECAUSE he’s a terrorist on a plane WITH A BOMB!!! Like I said in another post-
They might as well start cutting their hair into a bowl shape and start slapping each other and poking each other in the eye while going “Yuck yuck yuck”
Jeeez..
December 26th, 2009 | 12:55 am | #27
Obama thought all that bowing and scraping when traveling to Muslim Nations would tell them how much respect we have for their way of lift. WRONG!!!
Seems when Bush was talking about Peace Through Strength, he wasn’t just whistling Dixie huh? huh? huh? Mr. Obama. Come on now admit it.
December 26th, 2009 | 1:01 am | #28
This does change the subject from Obama’s wildly unpopular Healthcare Bill, to an issue in which he is a little less unpopular. O’ Cynical me.
December 26th, 2009 | 2:26 am | #29
The terrorist is also studying engineering at a british university. He was traveling to the US on a religious VISA for some sort of religious conference.
These poor Muslims from “poor” countries sure get around, that should have been a “red” flag. How many Americans can afford to travel overseas on a religious VISA?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23788488-us-plane-suspect-a-london-student.do
December 26th, 2009 | 2:58 am | #30
As a Nigerian chistian and residing in Nigeria, for almost 40 years now. Its a fact we have predomonantly muslim population in the northern regison, but name of that dude show that he might not be a Muslin of Nigerian descent. (Take it or leave it).I suspect he is a muslim from Sudan or other etremist areas of Africa.it is a common knowlege here that Nigeria passports are easy to acquire my other nationlas.
December 26th, 2009 | 3:36 am | #31
Sandy, Peace Through Strength doesn’t make sense to Obama. He was born a P***y.
December 26th, 2009 | 7:30 am | #32
http://freep.com/article/20091225/NEWS05/91225022/1318/Reports-NWA-passenger-was-trying-to-blow-up-flight-into-Detroit
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee, identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit. There were 278 passengers aboard the Airbus 330.
[Passengers] were keenly aware, having a bird’s-eye view of the man, who was tackled by passengers shortly after he tried to light [something]. Passengers subdued the man and may have prevented him from detonating the explosives, officials said.
“It was terrifying. I thought this was it,” said Richelle Keepman of Oconomowoc, Wis., who sat just rows in front of the suspect. She said she thought she was going to die when she saw the flames and commotion.
Michigan native Melinda Dennis was sitting in first class when the suspect was placed in a seat across the aisle from her. “He didn’t say anything,” said Dennis, who lives in Europe and was connecting to a flight to Arizona. “He was burned very severely on his leg.… He was very calm and didn’t show any reaction to pain.”
December 26th, 2009 | 7:38 am | #33
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23788488-us-plane-suspect-a-london-student.do
The Nigerian suspect allegedly tried to detonate a powdery substance on a flight from Amsterdam as it prepared to land at Detroit with 278 people on board.
US law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. The 23-year-old is reportedly an engineering student at University College London.
http://freep.com/article/20091225/NEWS05/91225022/1318/Reports-NWA-passenger-was-trying-to-blow-up-flight-into-Detroit
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee, identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian.
No excuse if the name typed on the banned from flight list was not spelled both ways:
Abdul Mudallad
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab
That a 23 year old engineering student at University College London failed his grand criminal experiment is noteworthy.
December 26th, 2009 | 8:55 am | #34
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December 26th, 2009 | 9:13 am | #35
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December 26th, 2009 | 6:21 pm | #36
at least I knew where Bush stood on fighting terrorism, but with obama, I have no clue what so ever, very confusing, indeed…….I felt so safe under Bush, I just knew He was doing all He can to protect the American people, He love us so much that He went out on a limb ” just to protect the American people, He stood His ground while making decision on some of the most unpopular choices ever known. I remember the days when the new york time would report stories on the Bush adminstration “spying on terriorism, intercepting terror funding, listening to phone calls and all, o God, how I remember how Bush went out on the limb just to protect us, ” only to get spit on”. Obama scares the f–k out of me…..
December 26th, 2009 | 8:57 pm | #37
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December 27th, 2009 | 4:12 pm | #39
So what is to be expected of a bunch of fools that are two levels over their “Peter Principle” threshold?
December 29th, 2009 | 9:54 am | #40
Nigeria is not a terrorist country at all. Possible civil unrest, but it’s not a training camp, nor are there more terrorists or terrorism-idealists than there would be any other country. I might even go as far to say there are more terrorist networks in Canada than Nigeria. But then, there might be terrorist networks in all countries.
What really baffles me is the supposed Homeland Security that should have acted on the tip of his father. What’s the point of such an organization when it doesn’t do anything pro-active to protect its citizens.
More now than ever is it easy to believe that it’s a cloak to allow unjust wars on countries, and US citizen rights.
December 30th, 2009 | 10:22 am | #41
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