gidson12:

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

r231:

TRUE
i guess dats where power pass power

Beaf:

I think the CIA and FBI will only be interested in his strong backing for sharia and the pivotal role he is playing at the head of Nigeria's first Islamic bank; they will checking if his life outlook had an effect on his son or if he too is involved, either as a sponsor or more peripherally.

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".

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? Yemen is now widely known as the base of radical islamic fundamentalists where attacks had previously been planned on American targets.

Olisa4all:

Dnt wanna go off point but isnt d FBI's jurisdiction within d USA ONLY??(i stand2b corrected tho)

Olisa4all:

@chapelle. . .The CIA's primary function is to collect information bout foreign govt,corporations & individuals, d CIA hs,d FBI doesnt. .

bashdecash:

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

Horus:

Is Nigeria an American colony?. Nigeria is supposed to have his own Nigerian Federal Bureau of Investigation to do the "job". Are Nigerians not enough qualified to do the job?

mama-gee:

What are they questioning him for?
Didn't he warn the U.S. Officials?