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LAGOS—TO  unravel the mystery and puzzle called Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who tried to blow up a US plane, the father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was yesterday quizzed by American security operatives, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA  and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, agents in Abuja.
This is coming just as Umar Farouk’s roommates in Yemen local language institute where he was studying Arabic confirmed that he led a devout life and shunned music and women while he stayed in Yemen.
A source at the US embassy in Abuja said: “I can confirm that Umaru Mutallab was summoned to the desk office of the US embassy in Abuja where he was interrogated by men from the CIA and FBI on Monday.
CIA and FBI questioned him about his background and that of his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.’‘
The father had earlier this year warned US diplomats in Abuja that his son was an extremist threat.
Abdulmutallab led devout life in Yemen
Meanwhile, the roommate of Abdulmutallab, said the would-be-bomber led a devout life and shunned music and women while he stayed in Yemen.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/12/31/terror-attack-cia-fbi-quiz-farouks-dad/

Where will you be at 31st December night? As for me I love and will cross over to 2010 in God's presence. Where will you be?

As it stands, Nigeria is being blacklisted as a potential terrorist recruiting Ground from Al Qaeda and the rest of the Terrorist Groups out there. For One Person to deny this fact is useless because looking at it from the reality angle, there are some truth in it. The recently arrested 23 year old Nigerian who attempted to blow up a plane is enough evidence to this ill claim.
It is very important to understand what Nigeria Means, How we were conceived and our feelings for the Contraption.
Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groups, many of them are closely related to each other, which means that they share the same cultures, dishes and in most cases Languages. Therefore we divided them into three major Ethnic Groups.
The Hausas, The Ibos and The Yorubas in alphabetical other.
The hausas which i believe you westerners know very well are Muslims. I will say over 98% muslims.
They have been clamouring for Sharia and they have succeeded in imposing it in their own states.
They are also trying to impose it to the rest of the Country and You westerners are doing absolutely nothing about it. If they succeed, that means more radicals, more potential terrorists and more boko haram from Nigeria.
They started and sponsored the Boko Haram and You westerners did nothing about it simply because it is internal problem for Nigeria. The formed other radical groups that burn down the Churches of Other tribes located in their states and nobody said anything. CNN usually flash the news and that would be all for it.
The Yorubas and Ibos live in the Southern Parts of the Contraption by Lord Lugard and his Wife in 1914.
The people were not educated enough to put an end to that rubbish at that time.
The result is exactly what is happening to Nigerians now. Violence every where in The North. As i am writing this note, people are being murdered in Bauchi state Nigeria by Boko Haram and they will soon re elect their governor to rule again for another 4 years.

Nigeria is the most populous Nation In Africa and that means that whatever we set out to do, we will do it very well considering the Population. Our Borders in The North are not guarded. Therefore People From Niger Rep and Chad troop into Nigeria everyday to claim citizenship and we have no idea how to avoid that.
If Al Qaeda eventually finds its way to Nigeria, That would mark the beginning of another SOMALIA in Africa and i believe you people in the west do not want that. If this rubbish should be stopped right here from home, You better start planning on how to hand the power over to people who deserve to be our leaders and not people who will sell you oil at cheaper prices. Imagine 500,000 people from the Hausas Joining al qaeda, that will spell doom for You America.
Trust me when i tell you these fanatics will do anything to destroy you because i have seen them kill fellow Nigerians and the worst of all is that they rule the Country. Peaceful sharing of powers is not an option.
Your Mistakes helped them to win The Biafran War. Your second mistake will be to ignore the division of the Country.
I am sure that if they can be checked and infiltrated by Other tribes like Ibos and Yorubas, Your problem will be very small since the attention will be diverted to their close neighbours who in turn will always defeat them.
We therefore forward the motion to divide our Nation. We the Nigerians cannot be humiliated outside the country simply because one Muslim man attempted to blow up your plane. They have been blowing up our Churches here at home and no one apologized to us. We Nigerians cannot accept to be scrutinized with evil machines before passing through your airfields because umar farouk abdulmutallab does not speak for us.
We Nigerians will not accept insult from you because We did not ask you to merge people as large as us in the first place.
We are therefore again, asking the Americans, The UN and the EU/UK to look closely into the problems we are facing here at home first. Then you can be able to determine how Nigeria should be.
We are simply a mistake made by British Colonial Masters.

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect organised a conference under the banner “War on Terror Week” as he immersed himself in radical politics while a student in London, The Times has learnt.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a former president of the Islamic Society at University College London, advertised speakers including political figures, human rights lawyers and former Guantánamo detainees.

One lecture, Jihad v Terrorism, was billed as “a lecture on the Islamic position with respect to jihad”.

Security sources are concerned that the picture emerging of his undergraduate years suggests that he was recruited by al-Qaeda in London. Security sources said that Islamist radicalisation was rife on university campuses, especially in London, and that college authorities had “a patchy record in facing up to the problem”. Previous anti-terrorist inquiries have uncovered evidence of extremists using political meetings and religious study circles to identify potential recruits.

It emerged last night that Mr Abdulmutallab featured on the periphery of one counterterrorism intelligence operation in Britain. US intelligence authorities are also looking at conversations between him and at least one al-Qaeda member.

The event he organised took place in January 2007 and included talks on Guantánamo Bay, the alleged torture of prisoners and the War on Terror.

He is the fourth president of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years. One is facing a retrial on charges that he was involved in the 2006 liquid bomb plot to blow up airliners. Two others have been convicted of terrorist offences since 2007.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6971098.ece?&EMC-Bltn=DAOBX1F

Fire yesterday gutted the Lagos office of the Africa Independent Television (AIT) station (AIT), Alagbado, destroying some of its broadcasting equipment worth millions of naira. The fire outbreak, which is the third to be experienced by the media outfit, started at about 3.40pm and razed the building housing the dome, master control room, newsroom and the library.

Yesterday's inferno completely razed down the station's live studio despite the timely arrival of firefighters from Lagos State Fire Service.


Though the cause of the inferno was unknown at the time of filing this report, eyewitnesses however said it started around the dome and was first sighted by journalists in the studio.


The company's Corporate Affairs Manager, Mr. Johnson Onime said until investigations are carried out, he would not be able to say whether the incident was an act of sabotage or due to electrical fault.


Though no life was lost, some members of staff sustained minor injuries, while trying to escape from the building. The Transmission Engineer, Mr Tunji Akinlade, was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment having slumped after inhaling smoke.


The emergency medical team sent in from the state health ministry, LASAMBUS,which was led by Mrs Funlola Alese, confirmed that first aid was administered to six of the company's members of staff.

Some members of staff of the organisation were said to have battled the fire with hand-held fire extingishers before the arrival of the Lagos State Fire Service which drafted five fire fighting vehicles to combat the inferno.
It however took the firefighters about three hours to put off the fire and prevent it from spreading to other sections of the building.


The Director of the state fire service, Mr Adedayo. Aderemi Ajose, who led yesterday's operation, said the major obstacle encountered by his team was the absence of a fire exit route as fire had completety engulfed the only entrance to the section of the building gutted by fire. He said this in a way hindered them from accessing the building to promptly combat the fire.


"As you can see, we have enough vehicles here and sufficient water but the major obstacle we encountered was the absence of fire exit point. This made it difficult to gain access. We have a well equipped fire service in Lagos and gone are the days when we used to rely on Julius  Berger. As I am going now, I will still leave behind two fire fighting trucks with water, he said.


To maintain law and order and prevent hoodlums from capitalising on the incident to loot, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, who led the police team to the scene, said policemen would be stationed at the premises to ensure the safety of lives and property.

Nigerian Terrorist Says More Bombers On Their Way
By Masterweb News Desk
Abdul Mudallad (aka Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), the 23-year-old Nigerian national charged with trying to blow up a U.S. airliner told the FBI that more bombers were on their way to target the U.S. This revelation has triggered alarm bell among U.S. intelligence and Homeland Security. In his words according to ABC News report, Mudallad told the FBI that “there were more just like him in Yemen and would strike soon.”
A tape released by al Qaeda in Yemen four days before Mudallad’s failed attempt, read: “we are carrying bomb to hit the enemies of god.” The group, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is the latest reincarnation of Islamic militant cells that have been active in Yemen for years. Yemen Islamic militants have supplied extremists to wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and to terrorist networks stretching from Africa to Europe.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253. According to a Yemeni terrorism expert, the group has roughly 2,000 members and sympathizers exploiting Yemen’s economic and political chaos to creating a base for jihad at the edge of the Persian Gulf.
Abdul Mudallad on Christmas day was subdued and prevented from blowing up a U.S. airliner by fellow passengers and the flight crew. Mudallad left Lagos, Nigeria on Christmas eve to the Netherlands where the next day in Amsterdam he boarded Northwest Airlines flight 253 bound for Detroit, Michigan, U.S. He was traveling one way, without a return ticket. The flight had 278 passengers aboard.
Twenty minutes prior to landing in Detroit, the cabin erupted with firecracker sounding explosion followed with smoke smell. A passenger climbed over others to confront the suspect while other passengers and flight crew rushed to assist him. The suspect was subdued with his hands, pants and legs burnt from the explosion. He was taken to the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, 20 miles from the airport. A U.S. intelligence official said the explosive device was a mixture of powder and liquid that failed when the suspect tried to detonate it.
The explosive powder has been identified as PETN – pentaerythritol tetranitrate, which was concealed in the suspect’s underwear. According to reports, Mudallad told the FBI that he was trained for months in Yemen, given 80 grams of the explosive sewn into his underwear for activation in a U.S. bound plane.

2009 has come and almost gone, A lot has happened and still more going on.

I will like to give thanks to God for grace.

Thank you for the opportunity as we look forward to a better year.

To all those that have argued once or twice, we appreciate you.

To all those that might have offended while having fun, from the bottom of our heart, we apologize.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year in Advance.

Stay blessed and looking forward to a year of blessing - 2010.

Ndi igbo si na nwata etoghi eto juo ihe gburu nna ya, ihe gburu nna ya e gbu ya - A child who is not old enough to ask what killed his father, the same that killed his father will kill him too

Igbos are well renowned for their use of proverbs or idioms in expressing themselves. Let us build a catalogue of these proverbs with explanation in English language so that other tribes will appreciate how rich our heritage is.

Igbo Kwezuenu!!!

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