F.B.I. Interviews Tell of Cleric’s Role in Plot to Bomb Plane
Mr. Awlaki, an American-born cleric who had become a leading propagandist for Al Qaeda, told the man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
that "the attack should occur on board a U.S. airliner," according to the account Mr. Abdulmutallab gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
that was resolved to killing innocent people and considered them to be ‘coll
He put the younger man up at his house in the province of Shabwah, where Al Qaeda had a large presence,
and introduced him to other Qaeda trainers and bomb makers, Mr. Abdulmutallab told the F.B.I.
igh such transgressions," Mr. Abdulmutallab said. that could repent for those sins and his commitment to jihad would outwe
In interview after interview, he described every person he said he could recall from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch in Yemen; discussed candidly his evolving views about carrying out a terrorist act;
and tried to reconstruct the layout of a training camp, Mr. Awlaki’s house and many other Qaeda buildings.
Mr. Awlaki, whom everyone at the Qaeda training camp called "sheikh" out of respect for him as a religious leader, spoke at length with the Nigerian, then 23
and the son of a wealthy banker, about what he saw as the religious obligation of jihad.
Mr. Awlaki offered a final reminder: "Wait until you are in the U.S., then bring the plane down." With this instruction in mind, Mr. Abdulmutallab told the F.B.I., he
followed the progress of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the seat-back screen from Amsterdam into Canada, then waited as it approached the United States border.
Mr. Awlaki, an American-born cleric who had become a leading propagandist for Al Qaeda, told the man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
that "the attack should occur on board a U.S. airliner," according to the account Mr. Abdulmutallab gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
that was resolved to killing innocent people and considered them to be ‘coll
He put the younger man up at his house in the province of Shabwah, where Al Qaeda had a large presence,
and introduced him to other Qaeda trainers and bomb makers, Mr. Abdulmutallab told the F.B.I.
igh such transgressions," Mr. Abdulmutallab said. that could repent for those sins and his commitment to jihad would outwe
In interview after interview, he described every person he said he could recall from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch in Yemen; discussed candidly his evolving views about carrying out a terrorist act;
and tried to reconstruct the layout of a training camp, Mr. Awlaki’s house and many other Qaeda buildings.
Mr. Awlaki, whom everyone at the Qaeda training camp called "sheikh" out of respect for him as a religious leader, spoke at length with the Nigerian, then 23
and the son of a wealthy banker, about what he saw as the religious obligation of jihad.
Mr. Awlaki offered a final reminder: "Wait until you are in the U.S., then bring the plane down." With this instruction in mind, Mr. Abdulmutallab told the F.B.I., he
followed the progress of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the seat-back screen from Amsterdam into Canada, then waited as it approached the United States border.
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