Nigerian (so-called) terrorists' Links to Ghana (or "We almost lost Detroit")

So along with a severely ill president, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, running the country from a hospital in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria now has a 23 year-old citizen who stands accused by the world's superpower of plotting to blow up an airplane in Detroit. This could not happen at a worst time for Nigeria (but it is a great opportunity for AFRICOM). And God knows Detroit doesn't need any more problems--"terrorism" is not the sort of growth industry you want to be known for. 

This Ghanaweb article about the Nigerian so-called "terrorist", Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, reports a number details on the alleged plot including Abdulmuallab's purchase of a seat over the aircraft's fuel tanks, a syringe "sewn into his underwear," and several loose connections to Ghana.

Federal authorities on Saturday charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, and officials said the suspect told them he had obtained explosive chemicals and a syringe that were sewn into his underwear from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda.

Abdulmutallab appeared to have chosen his seat on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 carefully. The Christmas Day seat in aisle 19 placed him right over the fuel tanks of the jetliner and at the window, where an explosion would have maximum effect, US security experts told US broadcasters.

Read full story @ Ghanaweb.



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