Information about terror suspect Abdulmutallab was transmitted from UK to US
Tiffany PhillipsPrime Minister Gordon Brown’s office said that information about a Nigerian national who is charged with attempting to blow-up an aircraft carrying out a transatlantic flight between Amsterdam and Detroit was passed by British intelligence on to American authorities, although he was not considered to be a particular risk.
The accused, twenty-three-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had his name included in a list of suspects who established contact with known UK extremists although authorities now believe that he had left Britain in 2008 before being radicalized, said a representative of the Prime Minister, Simon Lewis.
Monday’s revelation followed the news that British security officials said Abdulmutallab had been in touch with known radicals living in the United Kingdom shortly after he arrived to the country in 2005, however, he was considered a dangerous threat which called for alerting U.S. intelligence authorities.
Abdulmutallab, a former engineering student at University College London, had managed to smuggle an explosive device on board the Detroit bound Northwest flight on Christmas day although he incapable of detonating it as planned.
Intelligence and counterterrorism authorities in Britain regularly track individuals who have known connections to extremists or alleged involvement to terror financing. Several of theses people are not though of as being violent or even high-risk priorities.
Mr Abdulmutallab, who graduated from the University College London and subsequently left the UK in 2008, was refused another student visa in 2009 because, according to Government officials, the school indicated on his application was no-existent.
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