Bomber Defiant: ‘Though I Failed, Others Will Succeed Next Time’
Posted To The Web: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - Simon Ateba
         

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab



Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian, who attempted to blow up a U.S. airliner with 289 people on board, has reportedly told American investigators that though he failed, other terrorists will succeed next time.

The son of the former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria is reported to have told the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that others with similar training he received are ready to launch their own attacks on America, according to the U.S. network, ABC.

“I am one from a production line of terrorists that has been trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda,” he was quoted to have said, according to ABC.

“There are more just like me who will strike soon,” Mutallab said, according to The British tabloid, The Daily Telegraph.

Mutallab had earlier claimed connection with Yemen-based al Qaeda, which had supplied him with new types of explosives to bring the trans-Atlantic flight down, and killed the 289 people on board.

He was arrested by the American authorities after he tried to set off an incendiary device on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit as it prepared for landing on Christmas Day.

He was overpowered as he tried to detonate explosives apparently sewn into his underpants. He emerged from the toilet, put a blanket on his lap complaining of an upset stomach, and then tried to operate the bomb. Passengers and crew restrained him as flames leapt from his clothing.

Security agencies fear that dozens of Islamic militants from Britain have travelled to Yemen in recent months to be trained by al Qaeda bomb-makers to launch further attacks against western targets.

Yesterday, a group calling itself al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide bombing on the Northwest Airlines flight 253.

“We will not let Muslim women and children’s blood be spilled without taking revenge,” the group said.

Investigators are worried that AQAP has developed an undetectable bomb involving PETN

The US Embassy in Yemen was attacked by al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists in September 2008, and the USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, was hit by al-Qaeda in 2000.

The attempted plane bombing on Christmas Day, which was intended to kill all 289 on board, failed only because the bomb’s detonator did not work.

Pete Hoekstra, a member of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said: “I think it’s very clear it came very, very close. The explosive device went off; it became an incendiary device instead of an explosive device, which is probably what saved that airplane.”

President Barack Obama interrupted his Christmas holiday to order two anti-terrorism reviews as aviation chiefs acted to close loopholes that let Mutallab take explosive materials on to the aircraft flying from Amsterdam.

The foiled attack came four days after a video was posted on extremist websites showing an al-Qaeda militant in Yemen warning: “We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God.”

Michael Rimmer, one of his former high school teachers, called Mutallab “a model student, very keen, very enthusiastic”.

Efemena Mokedi, a former classmate, said: “He was a very nice, friendly person. He was a person who did a lot of good things.”

Meanwhile, contrary to repeated claims by the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, that the explosive devices found with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, did not pass through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, the would-be terrorist has stated that he, indeed, passed through the Lagos airport, twice, with the deadly devices undetected.

According to a CNN report, Mutallab was said to have told an American investigator that he got the devices in Yemen and brought them to Lagos. He then transported them from Lagos to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Detroit undetected.

Demuren, on Sunday, exonerated Nigeria and blamed the authorities at Schiphol international airport in Amsterdam for security breaches that allowed Mutallab to board a U.S. plane with explosive devices.

“We are the third world and they are the first world, why was the device not detected in Amsterdam? Why was the suspect not caught over there? The suspect went through the same security checks in Amsterdam that he did in Lagos, why didn’t they see it?

“He went through all our security checks here before he was allowed into the plane. Our airports are safe. We carry about 8 million passengers every year and there has never been any cause for alarm. There is no indictment on our system whatsoever,” Demuren told our correspondent on Sunday night.

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Aloy~Emeka:

“I am one from a production line of terrorists that has been trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda,” he was quoted to have said, according to ABC.

“There are more just like me who will strike soon,” Mutallab said, according to The British tabloid, The Daily Telegraph.

It shocks me and strikes fear in my heart everytime I read those parts in bold.
These are machined assassins who have been branded to kill. A "production line of terrorists" eager and thirsty to pay the ultimate price. Committed to human decimation.

I think I should start travelling to Nigeria by ship

^ becomrich had previously suggested this

HIO4:

I think I should start travelling to Nigeria by ship 

LWKMD

HIO4:

It shocks me and strikes fear in my heart everytime I read those parts in bold.
These are machined assassins who have been branded to kill. A "production line of terrorists" eager and thirsty to pay the ultimate price. Committed to human decimation.

my dear that scares the sh.t outta me. these guys are simply brainwashed.

We are at war.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, claimed responsibility for the Northwest Airlines attack and for radicalizing Abdulmutallab, seen here in a photo released by the group. (AQAP)


Teacher Mike Rimmer provided this image of Abdulmutallab from his days as a student at the International School in Nigeria. Abdulmutallab, the youngest of 16 children and the son of the second of his father's two wives, purportedly wrote of his struggles with isolation and loneliness in postings to the Islamic forum gawaher.com.
(AP Photo)

In this 2001 image made available on Monday Dec. 28 2009 by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, right, poses with a group of fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. Eight years later on Dec 24 2009 Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
(AP Photo)

Abdulmutallab poses with a fellow student during their 2001 school trip to London.
(AP Photo)

In this 2001 image made available on Monday Dec. 28 2009 by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab left, poses in Trafalgar Square with a group of fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. Eight years later on Dec 24 2009 Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
(AP Photo)

In this 2001 image made available on Monday Dec. 28 2009 by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, left, poses with fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. Eight years later on Dec 24 2009 Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
(AP Photo)

He lloks so innocent. Dear gawd!!!

In this 2001 image made available on Monday Dec. 28 2009 by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab front left, smiling, poses with anti-war campaigner Brian Haw in front of Britain's Parliament with a group of fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. Eight years later on Dec 24 2009 Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
(AP Photo)

Abdulmutallab in 2001. His isolation and loneliness would only get worse, purportedly writing four years later, "I have no one to speak too [sic]. , No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems."
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House of Alhaji Umar Abdul Mutallab, the father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged Christmas Day terrorist, in Funtua, Katsina State, Sunday Dec. 27, 2009. The house only serves as family residence and is only attended to when there is a wedding ceremony, because the families are living either in Kaduna, Abuja or overseas. On Christmas Eve Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who later claimed to law enforcement that he was operating on orders from al-Qaida was able to carry a concealed explosive device onto a U.S.-bound airplane.
(AP Photo/ Muhammad Salisu Rabiu)

A police van is parked outside a building in central London where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is alleged to have attempted to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit used to live while studying in London.
(AFP/File/Carl Court)

A street is cordoned-off with police tape while police officers search a flat in connection with an attack on a U.S. passenger jet, London December 27, 2009. U.S. authorities on Saturday charged a Nigerian man with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet with high explosives and were investigating his claim that he had links to al Qaeda.
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language in San'a, Yemen is seen Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, where Nigerian suspect in the Christmas Day airline attack Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student. The San'a Institute for the Arabic Language told The Associated Press that Abdulmutallab was an Arabic student at the school in August. Administrators at the school said Monday that the director of the school, Muhammad al-Anisi, has spent two days being questioned by Yemeni security officials. He remained in custody Tuesday.
(AP photo)

An Emirati man walks in front of the University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. A senior official at a Dubai university says the man suspected of trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day studied there through the middle of this year but is no longer a student. University of Wollongong in Dubai Vice President Raymi van der Spek told The Associated Press on Monday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab took classes for seven months beginning in January. The school, located near the beach and Dubai's palm island, is a branch of an Australian public university.
(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

He seems so eagar to talk . . . as if he's boasting with no remorse.

No remorse indeed.

Why do black people love Nike and white people love le coq sportif?

Aloy~Emeka:


Why do black people love Nike and white people love le coq sportif?

Cos black people just do it and white people are chickens.Any more questions?

Choco5:

Cos black people just do it and white people are chickens.Any more questions?

LWKMD

lmfao

he looks so unhappy in most of the school photos taken in london.

The only time he looked a bit animated was when he was on one knee pointing at that placard.

red flags red flags.

about the other photos- is he aware jihadists dont normally look that happy when posing for their jihad picture?

confused boy.

LOL is this nucca serious? Others will succeed?? WTF?  

This is very sad, handsome boy. He had a whole life ahead of him, family that cares about him, money etc. And he blew it by allowing some muslim idiot to brainwash him. I really feel bad for his mother, her son fell victim of cruel b.astards that kills human beings because of a religion. I didn't feel bad for him until i saw his picture, he looked so innocent. He prospect are not good at all, he's looking at spending the rest of his natural life behind bars. He complained of loneliness, he hasn't seen loneliness until he begins serving his sentence in an American prison. 23 hour locked down. what a waste of life.

By the time the senior terrorists terrorize his behind in Guantanamo bay, he will lose Islam fast and seek help from Jesus.

My concern is not even about what he's gonna go thru, but everytime you get on a plane now, everybody on it is a potential bomber (not only arabs anymore) and you are not safe until it touches down. Abeg make technology quick reach level wey we go dey dissappear and re-appear at the other end

What a fool. Glad he's the type of fool who doesn't know when to shut up, his information will be valuable in the fight against terrorism

chiogo:

LOL is this nucca serious? Others will succeed?? WTF?

he a scary nucca. fiddy ain't got nuttn on him

it takes everything in the world for a corageous young handsomedude to make such a drastic statement decision,
   Brace yourself,  The worse is yet to come
 Worlds fail Me. .

blackspade:

What a fool. Glad he's the type of fool who doesn't know when to shut up, his information will be valuable in the fight against terrorism

He is in for a  life sentence unless miracle happens but even with the miracle, ain't no way he is getting off GITMO before 50.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

That is what they say.nothing dey happen, US is at alert.