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Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by greateliso(m): 10:02pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
The Americans should stop generalizing the Nigerians as terrorist instead let the lad pay through his nose. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by adconline(m): 10:06pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
What family, his mom a yemeni is already in court since last year and if convicted, she'll doin 20years, as for the young man, if convicted he'll be doing a lifey Why is his mom in court? Any link? I wish that this guy will be sentenced to death by hanging. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by tp2philike(m): 10:18pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
Left to me I wont allow any name close to mutallab to board any plane again or visit America for any reason.Religion is the opium of the masses. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by ayinba1(f): 10:21pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
On the one hand, some of you proclaim that Islam is a violent religion/sharia is a violent religion/all muslims are terrorist suicide bombers or potential bombers, On the other hand, you show indignation that US and some other countries are now viewing all Nigerians with suspicion - potential terrorists. It is called generalization. It is wrong as well as retarded. Islam is not what makes anyone set out to kill himself and others. At least, find out the facts and stop spewing hearsay. Without meaning to digress the thread, take a pause and look at yourself as a Nigerian ---Extra checks at Airports, numerous visa denials (not new) and let me know if you were asked first whether you are from Northern Nigeria or Southern Nigeria and if you are a muslim or not. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Nobody: 10:23pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
ayinba1: then please what is? Perhaps you can read Muttallab's mind better than we can. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by ayinba1(f): 10:40pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
davidylan: No Dawodu, I cannot read Mutallab's mind, but I am a muslim. Islam does not teach what Mutallab and others like him practice. Oh but of course you knew that, you are a regular on the religious thread. And again, stay on the topic. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Kilonso: 10:45pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
ayinba1:Whatever |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Nobody: 10:46pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
ayinba1: This is a fraudulent lie. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by londoner: 10:51pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
This boy had the cheek to plead "not guilty", !!! |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Borat1: 10:52pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
Ayinba, shut your smelly gob. . . Lets look at it this way. . . ALL the criminals convicted for r.ape were continually traced to a certain school. What moral grounds does the head of the school have to debunk claims the school influenced them? I can only feel pity for families with the muttallab surname. Automatic outcasts, all because of one brainwashed jihadist retard. The i.diot pled not guilty earlier today. I hope he's gang-r.aped till he is crippled while in prison |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by yashika(m): 10:59pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
Hello, Just thought you might find this view interesting. Cheers, Yashika. Princeton Lyman said at the Chinua Achebe Colloquium held at Brown University. To watch the video, you can also visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqMXoA1jfDs Princeton N. Lyman, the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, delivered a very poignant speech on the panel titled "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009. Lyman suggests that rather than continually emphasize Nigeria’s strategic importance, it would behoove us to consider elements that might eventually lead to Nigeria’s irrelevance on the international stage. Princeton N. Lyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, speaks on the panel "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island. [See Notes 1 & 2] TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH (TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE VIDEO SPEECH) Thank you very much Prof. Keller and thanks to the organizers of this conference. It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honor of Prof. Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us. I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I Ambassador there, I have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep and abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of humor in the face of challenges etc. And I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And I say that with all due respect to Eric [SILLA, SEE NOTE 3] who is doing a magnificent work at State Department and to our good friend from the legislature, because I have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be doing Nigeria and Nigerians no favor by stressing Nigeria's strategic importance. I know all the arguments: it is a major oil producer, it is the most populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in peacekeeping, and of course negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart the ripple effects would be tremendous, etc, But I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency of inflate Nigeria's opinion of its own invulnerability. Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important. And I am not sure that that is helpful. Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask whether they are as relevant as they have been. We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean? Do we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not just for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the enterpreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents of China to make her a major economic force and political force. What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit. What makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigerian. Are their talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is all that potential being used? And the answer is "Not really." And oil, yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now launching a 10-year program that is going to make it one of the major oil producers in the world. And every other country in Africa is now beginning to produce oil. And Angola is rivalling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States has just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of our dependence on imported energy. So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that relevant as a major oil producer, or just another of another of the many oil producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy and other sources of supply. And what about its influence, its contributions to the continent? As our representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history of those contributions. But that is history. Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or after many many promises making any contributions to Somalia? The answer is no, Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it was making before. What about its economic influence? Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialization going on in Nigeria a lack of infrastructure, a lack of power means that with imported goods under globalization, Nigerian factories are closing, more and more people are becoming unemployed. and Nigeria is becoming a kind of society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which does not make it a significant economic entity. Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important? Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the longest tenure in that job in the 1980s and I remember in one meeting a minister from a country not very friendly to the United States came in and was berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States and all its dire plots and in things in Africa and was going on and on and finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said: "You know, the biggest danger for your relationship with the United States is not our oppostion but that we will find you irrelevant." The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United States. We have already seen evidence of it. When President Obama went to Ghana and not to Nigeria, he was sending a message, that Ghana symbolized more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one wants to put on Africa than Nigeria. And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to Nigeria, I said "what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good model for democracy, would it be a model for good governance, would he obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African Union or in Niger or elsewhere?" No he would not, so he did not go. And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed but she also went to Angola and who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binational commission in Angola. So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary. Because what it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic importance in the end could be that it has failed. And that is a sad sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for Nigeria to be that important and great. And that takes an enormous amount of commitment. And you don't need saints, you don't need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state, because you are not going to get them. I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was time when South Korea was poor and considered hopeless, but it was becoming to turn around, later to become to every person's amazement then the eleventh largest economy in the world. And I remember the economist in my mission saying, you know it did not bother him that the leading elites in the government of South Korea were taking 15 - 20 percent off the top of every project, as long as every project was a good one, and that was the difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the fundamental economic issues of South Korea economy and turn its economy around. It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs leaders who say "You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do something about it." Thank you. Comment;- You can say in your mind, it's a plot and open conspiracy, Yes, TRUE as it may sound, it is working because we NIGERIANS have no clue that we are indeed on a JOURNEY TO AN OBLIVION OF GLOBAL OBSOLESCENCE. Hope it sinks. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by hubreality(m): 11:11pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
Nothing can be compared to ter.rorism(destroying lives and properties), evil. Anyone that supports or try to fine tune this evil act is a potential ter.rorist - Let us throw this evil act into the bin. Love is the greatest law. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Kilonso: 11:14pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
yashika:So what are you saying, that Farouk's saga might be a conspiracy or that he was framed? |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Jerjens: 11:27pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
abeg who bi dis (@yashika) 1. 9iger no do read 2. na so una dey start, small time, mixing chemicals near No.10 Dowing st if u ask, dem talk say 'no 1 was listening to them' tell me who wan read ur thread sory thesis @slap 1, i absolutely agree wit u the boy in nt Nigerian the trained and created a monster i wan marry oyinbo, molato, i wan born for yankee see am nw, find me 1 fully breed nigerian who ready to end hin life for 1 course, che e don dey long mak i mach brake. Nairalanders we r still where they want us arguing, throwing insults, religious bigotry, when my people, when |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by jimmie(m): 11:41pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
DETROIT – A young Nigerian man, wearing a white T-shirt and tennis shoes, did not speak much Friday during his first public court hearing to face charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab gave a one word answer — "yes" — when asked whether he understood the charges against him. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Randon entered a not guilty plea for the 23-year-old, who could face up to life in prison on the most serious charge — attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Authorities say the young Nigerian with al-Qaida links was traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit when he tried to destroy the Northwest Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 people by injecting chemicals into a package of explosives concealed in his underwear. The failed attack caused popping sounds and flames that passengers and crew rushed to extinguish. During his arraignment on Friday that lasted less than five minutes, Abdulmutallab stood at the podium along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel and defense attorney Miriam Siefer and answered a few questions in English from the judge. The longest answer came when the judge asked if he had taken any drugs or alcohol in past 24 hours. Abdulmutallab answered: "some pain pills." Siefer then said he was competent to understand the proceedings. Abdulmutallab, who is being held at a federal prison in Milan, Mich., had been treated at a hospital for burns after the attack. His attorneys then waived the reading of the indictment, and Randon entered the not guilty plea. It is routine practice in federal court for the defendant to allow the judge to enter a plea on his behalf rather than say anything himself. President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has said Abdulmutallab would be offered a plea deal in exchange for valuable information about his contacts in Yemen and elsewhere. After the hearing, one of Abdulmutallab's attorneys, Leroy Soles, declined to talk about the case. "It's just too soon in the process to make any comment," Soles said. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by hubreality(m): 11:44pm On Jan 08, 2010 |
2010 will swallow any evil that will rise against us citizens and the inhabitants of this country, they'll be caught in their very own trap and weapon, evil is stopped in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen. Salvation is sure. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by bawomolo(m): 12:34am On Jan 09, 2010 |
hubreality: and what exactly would this prayer do? |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by 12large: 12:42am On Jan 09, 2010 |
he did not kill anybody so he can never got to jail for life, he will probably claim that he only did that for publicity stunt, besides america is also in fault because his dad warned america about him. you can't blame a blind man for having a car accident but his guardian that let him drive a car". |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by 12large: 12:44am On Jan 09, 2010 |
please |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by 0hsisi: 12:51am On Jan 09, 2010 |
all I can say is allahu wakban! The big boys in prison will finally disvirgin him rather than 72 virgins,he's now the virgin allahu wakban I say na now im go sabi say difference dey between Lekki and Okokomaiko |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by okanlomowr: 12:59am On Jan 09, 2010 |
Infact American govt made mistake, why do they not let him to go back to Nigeria to go face that cchangein one of our prisons here with proper monitoring eather PAPAN TIr ALALA-GBONe will still be eating burger there, [/color][color=#990000] |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Kilonso: 1:04am On Jan 09, 2010 |
12large:you must be sick in the head or you are also a pro- Al Qaeda for saying post such arrant nonsense. What if the young man had succeeded and by now American troops are all over our already trouble country, then your contorted sense would have felt the difference |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Kilonso: 1:26am On Jan 09, 2010 |
bawomolo:Tell me what it is you have against the prayer? unless you are a child of devil |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by Chykason(m): 2:55am On Jan 09, 2010 |
Wait! Hush! Listen! What is AbdulMutallab's reward in heaven if he had succeeded? Virgins, right? Are they earthly or heavenly virgins? Of course it must be heavenly virgins! My Gad! That must be s*x in heaven, or better put S*X AFTER LIFE! The kid is really smart. Real foresight! [b][/b][s][/s] |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by webman(m): 2:56am On Jan 09, 2010 |
We should take our future into our hands by rising up against the evil doers of our land. You should know that,public fund stolen are being used to finance useless and senseless adventure. Let's us wake up to the task and fight our own battle. Running away from this war will amount to nothing. Great life with good comfortable is not in absence of war that will shake the shakable. If truly we need to be relevant to the world at large then democracy should give the desired power to the people. But unfortunately, this power is not being used in a way that will better lives for all. We should be insightful about many of the insane acts that our so-called leaders, because the like of Farouks, IBB's kids and so on have added the destiny and time of other Nigerian kids to their spree of foolishness. This is the time,we should wake up and trouble our trouble rs. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by 12large: 2:56am On Jan 09, 2010 |
my brother kiloso, there are many if in life. if my number came out i would have won the lottery if i had billions i would have bought a jet. so my brother there are many if's in life ad so long as you did not kill or harm anybody you can't go to jail for life. he could say that he did that only to kill himself because he don't want to live anymore |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by hilli666(m): 4:47am On Jan 09, 2010 |
They should bring him, let me flog him with koboko soaked in fresh pepper and left to sit in the sun for a few hours (immediately prior to the lashing) They should let me flog him till my hands are weak and tired and I can lash no more. For joining all those that bring shame and disgrace to our country (which include our current corrupt officials), after all don't we Nigerian deserve and reserve the right to punish our own citizens or does America think they were the only one affected by this?. They should extradite him to be tried in Nigeria the way Americans would have wanted it if it were the other way round. HA-BA! which kin hypocrisy b dis? Hey I'm just saying. |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by rasputinn(m): 5:21am On Jan 09, 2010 |
It should've been a seven-count charge,guess they missed the seventh one which is criminal stupididty |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by janedoe(f): 5:25am On Jan 09, 2010 |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by r231(m): 6:21am On Jan 09, 2010 |
12large: oh yea they just going to slap him on the wrist and tell him to go home plus warn him not to do it again abi that boy is going down 4ever besides i don't know why he is pleading not guilty anyway. he just feel like wasting tax payers money |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by alex406(m): 6:42am On Jan 09, 2010 |
he should just face the wrath once and for all. GBAM!!! |
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Faces Six Count Charges! ! ! by RBiafra: 6:57am On Jan 09, 2010 |
Fellow Biafran youths please listen to a message from Voice of Biafra International (VOBI). Let us join hands to save our independent, to save our land, and to save our generations unborn so that when they grow, they will be proud of us. I worked for years as an administrator in Massob before going abroad and have since being using all instruments at my disposal to enlighten our youths about the impending doom that is awaiting us should we fail to act. Every Biafra youth must contribute his/her own quota towards the actualization of Biafra. Every Biafran living the in land of Biafra and in Diaspora should endeavor to obtain the newly launched Biafra Int’l Passport. It’s good we die as brave men than to die in Nigeria as cowards. Massob spread like a magic, and I was one of the architects. The first answer to Biafra actualization is MOBILIZATION, second is MOBILIZATION, third is MOBILIZATION, many of our youth have not join us in this struggle because they are not well informed or well mobilized. When you are informed then have it as a duty to inform your fellow Biafran, in this you have played your part. Though he/she might argue about our disunity etc, let him/her know that our disunity is caused by Nigeria. Tell him/her that we are the originators of democracy, tell him/her that we are great people, and tell him/her that land case does not go to court in Biafra land; rather we have an in built mechanism to check our excesses. Nigeria holds no future for us all. There is nothing about Nigeria that benefits our people. No value, no benefits at all. Nigeria is already dead and just waiting to be buried. Nigeria has an unwritten constitution which is permanently dust and used only against Biafrans. There fore we cannot leave in a country where corruption is a way of life. Injustice is justice. All evil could be traced at the door of their govt. {"Employing non-violence, Biafrans have chosen to stay on our own as an independent sovereign state to ascertain the yearnings and aspirations of over forty millions Biafrans"} http://massob.org/ http://biafra.cwis.org/ http://www./ Long live Dim Ojukwu, Long live Biafran National Guard, Long live Friends of Biafra Long live Sovereign Independent Republic of Biafra.
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