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Nigerian bomber warns of more terror attacks 'soon' | The Nigerian-origin bomber, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has warned US
investigators that 'there are more just like me who will strike soon.' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, had earlier claimed connection with Yemen-based al Qaeda,
which
had supplied him with "new type explosives" to bring the trans-Atlantic flight
down, and kill 289 people on board. Security agencies fear that dozens of Islamic
militants from Britain have travelled to Yemen in recent months to be trained
by al-Qaeda bomb-makers to launch further attacks against Western targets, The
Telegraph reports. On Monday, a group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsular
(AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide bombing on Northwest
Airlines
flight 253. Earlier, the same group had vowed to revenge for military operations
carried out by the Yemeni government this month, which were backed by the US ,
in which the AQAP claims 50 people died. "We will not let Muslim women and
children's
blood be spilled without taking revenge," the statement had said. Investigators
are worried that AQAP has developed what is effectively an "undetectable bomb"
involving PETN - used by Abdulmutallab - which can evade normal airports security
scanners. As US agents continued to question Abdulmutallab at a prison in Michigan
, British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has confirmed that the bomber had been
banned
from entering the UK after he applied for a student visa in May to study at a
bogus college. Then, six weeks ago, his family in Nigeria contacted US security
officials to express "concerns" that he had become radicalised after he "disappeared"
to the al-Qaeda stronghold of Yemen. |
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