Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

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March 5, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen,…
February 16, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - At least five passengers were expected to speak Thursday at the sentencing of a Nigerian man who…
October 12, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with…
October 11, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - A federal prosecutor says a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an international flight was on…
October 3, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - The trial of a young African accused of trying to bring down an airliner near Detroit with…
December 16, 2010
DETROIT (AP) - Federal prosecutors in Detroit added two charges Wednesday, including conspiracy to commit terrorism...
September 13, 2010
DETROIT (AP) - In February, law enforcement officials said he had turned against Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born Yemeni radical who…
September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The report says U.S. authorities failed to realize that Somali-American youths traveling from Minnesota to Mogadishu in…
January 8, 2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as…
December 29, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leading Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee says the Nigerian man accused of attacking an…
December 29, 2009
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how U.S. intelligence organizations keep the skies safe...
December 28, 2009
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner cut off contact with…
December 28, 2009
OPINION - Hearing that a terrorist suspect had been found attempting to detonate a device on a plane was bad…
December 28, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the aviation security system failed when a young man on a…