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/

_{Wahala dey!}

Speechless

Just let all of us thank the God Almighty for making Farouk’s efforts a futility otherwise no Nigerian either at home or in diaspora particularly in the US and Britain would have been able to walk in the street. Even then are we still save? Let us be prayerful; this has always been our solace. Prayer should always be our key especially now that we are being recolonised by our ’selected’ rulers. Therefore let us keep on praying and fasting for a better tomorrow.

could there be mor to it that meets the eye, maybe they thought the old man might know something,

Why do you say they 'stormed' Nigeria?
They want to ask his old man some questions about his son thats all.

It's a standard procedure,there's nothin to it.Stop makin insinuations

okey na

Isn't this a trespass? why not Nigerian officials?

Anas M.I:

Isn't this a trespass? why not Nigerian officials?

here we go now the lime light is on us. hope it ends at that,  good enough he should be questioned thats logical. what's that i read about africom being put in place,

This is just a show!

What did they do when the father went to them personally two months back

They should rather go to Ghana, to find who actually purchase the KLM ticket used by Farouk.

If this information is true, (?) the presence of the Central Intelligence Agency, (CIA) in Nigeria is a shame and a proof that Nigeria is just a subservient of the US. How can Nigeria allow the presence of "agents" of the Central Intelligence Agency, who are responsible since World War II of most of the invasions, bombings, overthrowing governments, occupations, suppressing movements for political change, assassinating political leaders, kidnapping, perverting elections, manipulating labor unions, manufacturing "news", economic and political sanctions, death squads, torture, biological warfare, depleted uranium, drug trafficking, mercenaries. It's not a pretty picture and it is enough to give Nigeria a bad name again. It show that the Nigerian government is a wimp.

T'elese ban j'iya olododo apin nnue. May almighty God help Nigerians and guide our children to the right path because it could happen to anybody. Let us all watch ourselves and drop whatever we are doing that is bad so that our generation will not reap bad thing that we have sown.
My judgment, let the defaulters face their warrant! Temi ni moso o, mio mo tire.

shunning women and music is not extremism, is the moderate islamic way of life which is VERY COMMON among Northern muslims.

otawa:


They should rather go to Ghana, to find who actually purchase the KLM ticket used by Farouk.

He bought the ticket himself and paid cash in dollars tho

If a US citizen had planned to blow Nigeria Airways off the sky, would we be able to send "Olokpa" to Yankee to go and interrogate his father?

                                            or

Can "Olokpa" get a US visa to go interview a US citizen?

sleek_p:

If a US citizen had planned to blow Nigeria Airways off the sky, would we be able to send "Olokpa" to Yankee to go and interrogate his father?

or

Can "Olokpa" get a US visa to go interview a US citizen?

TRUE
i guess dats where power pass power

He bought the ticket himself and paid cash in dollars tho

Where is the evidence?

Where did he get the cash from? He broke comm with Father.

From which Bank was it withdrawn?

How come Ghana/Ethiopia Airport did not find the bomb on him it he brough it himself from Yemen.

Questions, Questions.

CIA, FBI ''storm'' Nigeria

What does ''storm'' mean? According to the dictionary it means ''A violent commotion or disturbance'' ''Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger'' ''A direct and violent assault on a stronghold''

Nigerian journalist and their tabloid mentality. Is this the best way to discribe FBI's involvement in the questioning of Mutallab snr? No wonder when you read our papers u would think that the whole of Nigeria is on fire! what more of foreigners and analyst from other countries?

Half baked journalist. NUJ better go through their ranks with a tooth comb and weed out such 'journalists'

otawa:

Where is the evidence?

Where did he get the cash from? He broke comm with Father.

From which Bank was it withdrawn?

How come Ghana/Ethiopia Airport did not find the bomb on him it he brough it himself from Yemen.

Questions, Questions.

I hope u aint hoping to get these answers from me, 'cos I nor be Farouk oh!!

_{Maybe u work for CIA sef. Who knows?}  

CIA is soooooooo inefficient! Just living in their past glory
This man had voluntarily gone to the CIA sometime in November to report his son's threat, yet they could not do anything with that information.
Now they are summoning him because their backside is on fire from a very disappointed Obama
Reminds me of the Nigerian Security System

ok there we go again, only God knows what the next drama will be

Don't compare naija with US, they are the numba 1 country in the whole world.they can do and undo.

The Guardian

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Security Adviser queries DG, NIA over Mutallab

* Inquest reveals involvement of sons of two former justices

From Martins Oloja, Abuja Bureau Chief

NIGERIA's intelligence/ Security machinery has kicked into overdrive in its bid to find what went wrong on its part, who knew what and when about the deeds or moves of Farouk Abdulmuttallab, now facing charges of attempted terror attack in the United States of America (U.S.A).

Piqued by the negative impact of the global discussion of the involvement of the Nigerian in the Christmas day's botched attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound plane that took off from Amsterdam, Holland and with the looming spectre of being tagged a haven of terrorists, Nigeria's presidency has launched a comprehensive probe of the tragic incident. The claims and counter- claims on who knew what, when and where, about Farouk Mutallab's suspected attempt are of course of special interest.

The probe, which promises to be far-reaching, began in earnest on Monday morning when the National Security Adviser Abdul Sarki Mukhtar, a retired Major-General, personally issued and signed a strongly-worded query to the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ambassador E.O. Oladeji.

In the query entitled: "Alleged Involvement of Umar Farouk Mutallab in an Attempt to Bomb a U.S. Airliner" and dated December 28, the National Security Adviser indicated that the National Intelligence Agency had prior knowledge of a report said to have been deposited with it on the suspect. The words of the query:

"From all indications, it seemed that your Agency had prior knowledge of a report, said to have been made by Alhaji Umar Mutallab about the tendencies of his son, Umar Farouk, towards radicalisation, which was manifested in the incident leading to his arrest in the U.S."

The query goes further, "It is really unfortunate and sad that knowledge of such an important intelligence issue could not be brought to the attention of this office, or the weekly Intelligence Community Committee Meeting (ICCM). It was this failure that led to the unfortunate incident we are grappling with now".

"The report if circulated within the ICC would have alerted the Security Agencies at our Travel Control Points (TCPs) to take appropriate required action, that would have led to his arrest, before boarding the KLM flight from Nigeria, thereby pre-empting the sad incident", it added.

The NSA notes that "Failure to do so has not only led to this rather unfortunate international embarrassment to the Nigerian nation, but also depicted our country as a haven for terrorists. You are therefore to explain what led to this failure of intelligence, and the persons therein involved. Your explanation, should reach me on or before Tuesday December 29, 2009, "

According to sources close to the NIA, the National Security Adviser's letter has caused some "consternation" within the Agency coming on the heels of a recent crisis that led to the dramatic removal of the former DG NIA, Ambassador Imohe.

The Guardian gathered last night that even as the NIA chief executive faces the challenge of answering the query from the NSA, the presidency has been told that contrary to earlier reports that the lead and indeed activities of Umar Farouk (Jnr) were reported to Nigeria's security agencies, "the father only reported it to a former National Security official who served under President Obasanjo, who in turn reportedly informed one of the directors at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The director obviously did nothing about the lead until the current incident happened."

The report of how Mutallab (snr) reported his son is said to have also raised curiosity of the Intelligence and Security Community. One puzzle operatives are hoping to unravel is "what the former Managing Director of UBA knew and what compelled him to head for the American Embassy instead of, for instance, the British High Commission which had in May this year rejected his son's re-entry visa shortly after he completed his degree programme in a London university".

Besides, the Intelligence and Joint Security Services are said to be interested in questioning the eminent Mutallab, a former federal commissioner (minister) under General Obasanjo as military head of state (1976-1979) on "why he did not report the suspicious deeds of his son to the offices of current National Security Adviser or even the Directors-General of the State Services Department or the National Intelligence Agency".

In the same vein, the presidency, still smarting from the embarrassment occasioned by the absence of the president for more than a month now, is now running with bursting adrenaline to get to the root of this crisis. As a result, so many questions are being asked: What are some of the relationships the older Mutallab has in the world of business, government and even religion? Being married to an Arab Yemeni himself, what could the older Mutallab know or say of his son's Yemeni connections? [/b]Yemen is now widely known as the base of radical islamic fundamentalists where attacks had previously been planned on American targets.

Could the attempted attack by Mutallab have been a culmination of an intricate web of local and transnational intrigues that may have implications for domestic and foreign policy direction of the current administration?"

Just as answers were being sought to these and other questions, last night, [b]it was revealed by diplomatic sources that Umar Farouk may not have been alone in his suspected enterprise. Indeed, two sons of two former justices of Nigeria have also been fingered and are already under the scrutiny of security men.

British investigators are said to have also revealed that a Pakistani citizen who collaborated with a Yemeni citizen actually trained the three Nigerian suspects inside the United Kingdom.
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Everyone is now on an overdrive because 'God Just Saved The day'
The whole world seems to be reactionary to these terrorist threats.
Prevention has lost its sting

opokonwa:

CIA is soooooooo inefficient! Just living in their past glory
This man had voluntarily gone to the CIA sometime in November to report his son's threat, yet they could not do anything with that information.
Now they are summoning him because their backside is on fire from a very disappointed Obama
Reminds me of the Nigerian Security System

he went to the embassy and had no info on the plane threat just his son became a "radical muslim who was agaist the west"  there are 16 federal agencies that deal with national security in the us and over 500,000 names on the terrorist watch list.  less then 2% are listed as "no fly".  it is in no way a perfect system  by any means but far better then NSS.

Yankee don leave yansh wey mess dey knock head wey no do nothing

he went to the embassy and had no info on the plane threat just his son became a "radical muslim who was agaist the west" there are 16 federal agencies that deal with national security in the us and over 500,000 names on the terrorist watch list. less then 2% are listed as "no fly". it is in no way a perfect system by any means but far better then NSS.

hmm so they had an info that a nigerian was going to attack yemen, a nigerian's father reported that his son was radicalised, the agencies should have been on alert especially during the Christmas season. I dont think it needs anyone with an IQ of just slightly over 90 to be overly interested in Nigerian travelers after getting that info. Dont compare NSS to CIA and FBI, the NSS usually does not face terrorist issues- the CIA are supposed to have honed their skills at this.

r231:

Let us be prayerful; this has always been our solace. Prayer should always be our key especially now that we are being recolonised by our ’selected’ rulers. Therefore let us keep on praying and fasting for a better tomorrow.

The same thing that got us in trouble? 

As for me and i mite be wrong, i think the boy lacked the parental attention he should have been given or how else do you explain a 10 year old 'shipped' out of the country in the name of attending an elitist school. I want to imagine that they would have gotten visiting rights once a month(as it was in my school, though not elitist), what then happens to the values and morals that can only be gotten from the home. This is a wake up call to everyone, especially mothers, as much as it is good to earn megabox, work in a high-brow office on the island, visit exoctic countries during their holidays, it is much more pertinent to spend time and i mean time with your children because when the harm that your non-chalance becomes done, your mega-box won't bail you out. Ask Baba Mutallab. A word is enough for the wise. Toju omo e!