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Old Aug 26, 2011, 12:01 pm
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barbell
 
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Indeed, he was on a watch list, and even though his father alerted the US Embassy of his plans, they did nothing.

Why?

Well, his name was not placed on the NFL, for one thing, in spite of evidence that he was, indeed, someone who should've been on it, arguments to the validity/necessity of a NFL notwithstanding.


On November 11, 2009, British intelligence officials sent the U.S. a cable indicating that a man named "Umar Farouk" had spoken to al-Awlaki, pledging to support jihad, but the cable did not reflect Abdulmutallab's last name.[61] Abdulmutallab's father made a report to two CIA officers at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19 regarding his son's "extreme religious views",[4][62] and told the embassy that Abdulmutallab might be in Yemen.[6][19][33][63] Acting on the report, the suspect's name was added in November 2009 to the U.S.'s 550,000-name Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, a database of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. It was not added, however, to the FBI's 400,000-name Terrorist Screening Database, the terror watch list that feeds both the 14,000-name Secondary Screening Selectee list and the U.S.'s 4,000-name No Fly List,[64] nor was his U.S. visa revoked.
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