Witchhaunt? Another Nigerian Passenger arrested on American flight (Page 3)

Passing...... wit bomb in hand. I go blow up naijapals today.

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Posted: at 28-12-2009 11:52 AM (14 years ago) | Hero

PALS, PLS LET'S THINK AND STOP THINKING AS IF WE HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED

Posted: at 28-12-2009 01:09 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

GOD bless you the one and only solution is to break up

Posted: at 28-12-2009 02:02 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

PLS naijas make wona wait first.
i bi hear say the guy pale report eim pikin give the mumus wea they call their names FBI. 6 month ago. but the those fbi no do any effect to stop this bomber. okey ooh. if bi say7 nthe guy do succed the airplane to bomber ram. how the nation go take this jams. na God go punish this boy (AMEN)our county wea e no good before na eim this gorilar won destroy again. thank God say no bi Naija dis blow go happen.how yaradua do feel for the sick bed wea him dey.
naija, Good people, Great Nation

Posted: at 28-12-2009 03:10 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

Na time to start pray be this o..
May God help us otherwise..

Posted: at 28-12-2009 03:26 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

BREAKING NEWS: Mutallab Family Issues Statement
12.28.2009
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Our family, like the rest of the world, were woken up in the early hours of Saturday, 26th December, 2009 to the news of an attempt to blow up a plane by a young Nigerian man, who was later identified as Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is the son of Alhaji (Dr.) Umaru AbdulMutallab, the head of this Family.
 
Prior to this incident, his father, having become concerned about his disappearance and stoppage of communication while schooling abroad, reported the matter to the Nigerian security agencies about two months ago, and to some foreign security agencies about a month and a half ago, then sought their assistance to find and return him home.
 
We provided them with all the information required of us to enable them do this. We were hopeful that they would find and return him home. It was while we were waiting for the outcome of their investigation that we arose to the shocking news of that day.
 
The disappearance and cessation of communication which got his mother and father concerned to report to the security agencies are completely out of character and a very recent development, as before then, from very early childhood, Farouk, to the best of parental monitoring, had never shown any attitude, conduct or association that would give concern. As soon as concern arose, very recently, his parents, reported it and sought help.
 
The family will continue to fully cooperate with local and international security agencies towards the investigation of this matter, while we await results of the full investigation.
 
We, along with the whole world, are thankful to Al-Mighty God that there were no lives lost in the incident. May God continue to protect us all, amen.
 
Finally, as the matter is being investigated by the various agencies, and has already been mentioned in a US court, the family requests that the press should regard this as the only statement it will make for now.
 
Thank you.
Signed
 
The Mutallab Family
Abuja,
Nigeria

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Nigeria Bomber’s Home Town Blames Foreign Schooling
December 28, 2009 13:47 (2 hours ago), 205 views
MFor residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab’s foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.

The 23-year-old London-educated Nigerian was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board.

The son of a highly respected banker, Abdulmutallab’s actions shocked Nigeria’s wealthy elite and residents in his family’s predominantly Muslim northern hometown of Funtua.

“Everyone knew the Mutallabs and the father is honest, generous, helpful and above all a prominent banker. I cannot see why his son should be involved in this act,” Funtua resident, Ibrahim Bello, 65, said.

Like other elders from the community, Bello said Abdulmutallab’s schooling abroad meant he had been brought up outside the customs of northern Nigeria, a region with a history of moderate Sufi Islam.

“My only advice to the elite is to allow their children to mingle with the children of the masses so that he will have some of the traditional morals and values that (the elder) Mutallab himself enjoyed,” Bello told Reuters.

Behind him, a group of elderly men were listening to the local Hausa language services of the BBC and Voice of America radio stations, eager to hear the latest developments.

Abdulmutallab is from a privileged background in Africa’s most populous nation, where most of an estimated 140 million people live under $2 a day.

His father, Umaru Mutallab, retired earlier this month as chairman of First Bank, the country’s oldest, after a distinguished career in finance.

Like many children from rich Nigerian homes, Abdulmutallab spent his formative years abroad. Information Minister Dora Akunyili said he had been living outside Nigeria “for a while” and only returned on the eve of the attack.

“We were shocked when we heard a report from one of the international radio stations that the son of Mutallab is involved in an act of terrorism in the United States,” said Ahmed Ibrahim, one of Abdulmutallab’s contemporaries.

“But many of us did not know the children of the Mutallabs because they did not grow up here in Funtua,” he said, sipping Coca-Cola under the shade of a tree.

The Mutallab home in Funtua, more than 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital Abuja, is a single-story brown and white building behind big gates, larger than surrounding houses but not ostentatious.

Abdulmutallab was educated at the British School in Lome, Togo — a boarding school mostly serving expatriates and students from around West Africa — before studying engineering at University College London (UCL), where he is believed to have lived in a multi-million dollar city-center apartment.

One friend who knew him in London said he kept himself to himself and always wore a skullcap, rare among young Nigerian Muslims who usually wear such caps only on religious occasions.

Nigeria’s ThisDay newspaper said he had been given the nickname “Alfa” — a local term for an Islamic scholar — while at school in Togo, for his preaching to other students.

He also made two trips to Yemen during his student days for short Arabic and Islamic courses, according to a family friend.

If Abdulmutallab was radicalized outside Nigeria as many of his compatriots believe, his case would have precedents.

Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, who was sentenced to death in Pakistan in 2002 for the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and suspected of links to the September 11, 2001 attacks, came from a similarly privileged background.

Born in Britain in the early 1970s, Omar was the son of a wholesale clothes merchant from Wanstead in northeast London who went to an expensive school but dropped out of one of Britain’s top universities, the London School of Economics.

Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north has seen bouts of religious unrest. But while some Western diplomats have expressed concern that its huge population and widespread poverty could attract foreign Islamic extremists, there has been no conclusive evidence of such a presence in the country.

Clashes between security forces and a radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram — which wanted a wider adoption of sharia (Islamic law) — killed hundreds of people in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in July.

But Islamic jurisprudence in Nigeria is based on the moderate Maliki school of Sunni Islam and Boko Haram’s ideology is dismissed by the country’s Muslim leaders and most believers.

Young Muslims who grew up in Funtua insist it was Abdulmutallab’s life overseas, which they view as alien, not Nigerian Islam that gave rise to his extremist views.

“We the children of the masses in this country, we don’t know anything about terrorism because our parents are poor. They don’t have the money to take us abroad,” said 25-year old student and Funtua resident, Usman Mati.

Comments (5)

OGBENI NAIJA
Today 14:42 (1 hour ago)
YOUR HAUSA/FULANI ANCESSTORS SHOULD BE BLAMED TIMID WAY OF LIVING,WHEN YOU ARE TRAINING YOUR CHILDREN TO BE VIOLENT BY ENROLLING THEM INTO THE DESTRUCTIVE AND PRIMITIVE ALMAJERIS INTITUTIONS YOU THINK YOU ARE PREPEARING THEM FOR ATTACK ON THE NORTHERN BASED SOTHERNERS AND NORTHERN CHRISTIANS.BUT LOOK AT THE SHAME YOUR SON HAS BROUGHT TO THE NATION BECAUSE OF YOUR EVIL IMMAGINATION TO WIPE OUT CHRISTIANS .THE DAY IS NEAR WHEN GREEN & WHITE FLAG WILL BE LOWERED BECAUSE THE SOUHTRENERS CAN NO LONGER STAND ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT YOU ARE BRINGING TO US AS A PEOPLE.SHAME ON YOU ALL WHEN YOU CAN NOT ACCOUNT FOR YOUR CHILDREN AS THE TERRORIST FATHER HAVE SAID.IT MEANS YOU MEN CAN NOT ACCOUNT FOR HOW YOUR WIVES HAVE YOUR CHILDREN WHEN ONE MAN WILL BE HAVING EIGHTY CHILDREN.
ADEYEMI TOBIAS NDUDI
Today 14:47 (1 hour ago)
Young Muslims who grew up in Funtua insist it was Abdulmutallab’s life overseas, which they view as alien, not Nigerian Islam that gave rise to his extremist views.
“We the children of the masses in this country, we don’t know anything about terrorism because our parents are poor. They don’t have the money to take us abroad,” said 25-year old student and Funtua resident, Usman Mati.
THESE ARE ALL HOGWASH. IS BOKO HARAM NOT AN EXTRIMIST VIEW? IS MUTTALAB THE ONLY NIGERIAN MUSLIM STUDYING IN SCHOOL OVERSEAS?
MAITATSINE, BOKO HARAM ETC ARE ALL ACTS OF TERRORISM AGAINST THE STATE (NIGERIA).
Ijimere baba Obo
Today 14:49 (1 hour ago)
Did London invite the terrorist to come and sudy in Britain, the answer is NO, please blame the father who sent his children abroad for studies. It is time we start bringing down the influential Nigerians. Our school system is deteriorating and they dont care. It is time we include in our consttution that all Nigerians who were born in the country must study up to bachelor’s level at home. Let the rich Nigerians experience what the poor pewople are going through in our universities. Nigeria is for all and not only the poor have to suffer. Where are the armed robbers, it is time for you guys to star visiting the rich peole and leave the poor alone. Mallam was able to buy $4m for his son in London and as shown above , majority of Nigerians live under $2 a day.
DANLADI RABIU
Today 15:18 (1 hour ago)
THE VILLAGE PEOPLE MIGHT BE RIGHT, HOWEVER, THIS IS VERY UNFORTUNATE. I THINK THE BOY MAY HAVE BEEN MISLED OR DRUGGED TO ACT IN THIS MANNER. I DONT THINK HE DID IT WITH HIS SENSES BECAUSE HE HAS EVERY COMFORT ANY KID CAN DREAM OF. FELLOW COMMENTATORS, WE SHOULD SEE THIS AS A NATIONAL CALAMITY AND NOBODY SHOULD PLEASE MAKE TRIBAL OR RELIGIOUS SENSITIVE COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE. THE BOY IS A NIGERIAN AND THIS PROBLEM SHOULD BE SEEN AS A NIGERIAN PROBLEM NOT HAUSA, IBO OR YORUBA OR CHRISTIAN/MUSLIM. LETS BE PATRIOTIC AND COMMENT LIKE TRUE NIGERIAN PATRIOTS WE ARE. THANK YOU ALL.
umunnam
Today 15:51 (44 minutes ago)
una again.
Your comment will be published after the time that approved by moderator.
ebony jay
Today 16:35 (3 seconds ago)
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
SOMETHING IS FISHY
THE BOY IS ON THE USA LIST YET HE IS GIVING USA VIA TILL MID. 2010. WHY?
THE PARENT REPORTED HIM TO THE AUTHORITIES. BOTH USA/NIGERIA. WHAT DID THEY DO?
IN LONDON THE BOY IS EXTREME IN HIS RELIGION VIEW AS STATED BY FELLOW STUDENT. WHAT DID THE SCHOOL AUTHORITY DO?
FEW MONTHS BACK USA CONDUCTED SPECIAL EXERCISE ON POSSIBLE BRAKE UP OF NIGERIA AS A NATION AND DOCUMENTED IT. WHY NIGERIA?
CHINA INTEREST IN NIGERIA OIL SECTOR IS INCREASING. WHAT IS THE WESTERN WORLD ATTITUDE ON THIS?
IS NIGERIA THE NEXT IRAQ?
OUR ELDERS HOME AND ABROAD PLEASE WAKE UP. SAVE OUR NATION
A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR A WISE
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Posted: at 28-12-2009 04:36 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

PROFILING

Posted: at 28-12-2009 07:57 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

now is not the time for questioning,we should expect more. nigeria has long been eaten up by these bastards imagin his apartment in london alone can see 1million nigerians through school,it is a pity that this is happening in our time.guys i know you do not see it from my angle,alot of senegalese are using the nigeria passport the ghanians are messing this same passport now tell me if worst event will not happen to the poor and harmless nation,these passport are issued by nigerians what a pity.she said he sneaked in but he boarded from the mm international airport the truth remains.let us fight for our freedom.

Posted: at 28-12-2009 10:19 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

 
It not just Nija pple will be blamed, Is Africa in general. ' that Afican did this n that'. It not nice. One thick minded pig cannot ruin all of us. Let not be brain washed by those evil pple. Those evil muslim has really spoilt other Muslims name.  Am not a muslim but I have to say that is not all muslims r bad. :'(

Posted: at 29-12-2009 03:57 AM (14 years ago) | Newbie