Monday - December 28, 2009
British security services are now hunting for possible accomplices .
UPDATE on the ni...whoops. The “suspect”
Hunt for terror cell behind Christmas Day suicide attack as Home Secretary reveals jet bomber ‘did not act alone’By Vanessa Allen and David Williams
Last updated at 3:31 PM on 28th December 2009Home Secretary Alan Johnson today declared he did not believe the Christmas Day airline bomber was acting alone.
British security services are now hunting for possible accomplices of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as they probe his links in the UK.
Mr Johnson said: ‘We don’t know yet whether it was a single-handed plot or (there were) other people behind it - I suspect it’s the latter rather than the former.’
The minister also confirmed this morning that Abdulmutallab had been put on a UK watch list after he was refused a student visa following an application to study at a bogus college.
He suggested the U.S. authorities should have been warned about the British ban, which was issued last May, saying he ‘doubted’ there had been any ‘hiccup’ in procedures.
‘If you are on our watch list then you do not come into this country. You can come through this country if you are in transit to another country but you cannot come into this country,’ Mr Johnson said.
The revelation will increase incredulity that the 23-year-old, who was also on a U.S. watch list, was not stopped before he boarded the Amsterdam-Detroit flight on Christmas Day.
Al Qaeda had also warned of a terror attack four days before the incident, posting a video online from Yemen saying: ‘We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God.’
There’s more at the link. A lot is a rehash of course. Most likely you’ve already seen the diagrams etc.
There is a blurb in the paper that also says people in the last hour of flight will NOT be allowed to have a newspaper or a book. ???
Can anyone explain the logic of that? It isn’t explained in the paper. A book? A newspaper? Sure do not understand that.
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