Until just before he embarked upon his great jihad. "Yemen: Visa of Nigerian Would-Be-Bomber Expired," from AP, December 31:
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- The Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner had stayed on in Yemen illegally after his visa expired three months ago and should have been stopped by authorities from leaving the country, Yemeni security officials said Thursday.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab spent time in Yemen on two occasions before the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.
Yemeni officials said Abdulmutallab's student visa for Yemen, where he studied Arabic at a local language institute, was valid from Aug. 4 to Sept. 21.
After his visa expired, the 23-year-old stayed on in Yemen until the first week in December, they said, but his whereabouts in the country is unknown....
''We arranged a taxi to take him to the airport on Sept. 21 and we said goodbye,'' school director Muhammad al-Anisi told The Associated Press. ''Our responsibility toward him ended that day.''...
Of course. No one has any responsibility for this guy.
Well, The One blames George Bush, so that must be the deal.
Or something.
Jihadist website emboldened by the almost success of the flight 253 Jihadist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
http://zanbhi.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/operation-by-the-mujahid-brother-omar-al-farooq-the-nigerian/
The first dramatic incident of Islamist terrorism in Yemen was the bombing of the USS Cole. President Clinton did nothing about it, as he evidently did not consider it an act of war.
I know, Al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole in 2000 because they predicted a win for G. W. Bush that November! \sarc off
The Bush administration captured the mastermind of the USS Cole attack, cleaning up a problem inherited from Bill Clinton. Is that war criminal from Yemen being tried in NYC, along with Khalid Sheik Mohammad?