US and UK authorities are scrambling to check on possible terrorist links Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab might have to Al Qaeda, particularly in Yemen. He is the man who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet with 300 people aboard 25 December, Christmas Day. Details about his background are gradually surfacing, after it became known that his father, a top banker in Nigeria, warned the US a month ago that he was concerned about his son’s extremist views. The plane he tried to explode was flying from Amsterdam, The Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan in the US.

Links to other sites: AllAfrica, BBC, Reuters

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