abdulmutallab boarded a jet going from nigeria to detroit and had 80 grams of petn hidden in his underwear. and now more information. now the government is saying that the underwear bomber and anwar al awlaki, same guy, were introduced through text message. that mr. awlaki hosted the underwear bomber in his house for three days before the kid went on to an al qaeda training camp. we re also being told mr. al awlaki planned it in detail. and a statement in a martyrdom video that would be shown after the attack. awlaki directed the underwear bomber to take down the u.s. plane. that his last instructions to him were to make sure he blew it up when it was over american soil. all these new disclosures about anwar al awlaki came in a letter yesterday sent by the attorney general to members of congress. the same points were reiterated by president obama in his big speech today. basically all of these new allegations against this american citizen who was killed
oversee the plat to detonate the bombs on board the two u.s. bound cargo planes, he was also, they say directly involved in the deteals of the execution. the government said he took part directly and even the development and testing of the explosives placed on the planes. and while we re on the subject, in 2009, a nigerian businessman walked into the u.s. embassy in nigeria concerned about his son, he said his son was being radicalized. they deemed the concern over his son s radicalization, they added his name to a half million other names to a data base and the tip was forgotten until a month later in december of 2009 when he bored a northwest airlines passenger jet from nigeria to detroit and had 80 grams of explosive material hidden in his
and testing of the explosives that were placed on the planes. and while we re on the subject, in 2009, a nigerian businessman walked into the u.s. embassy in nigeria. he said he was concerned about his son. he said his son was being radicalized. at the time u.s. intelligence officials deemed this concern over his son s radicalization to be insufficient to pursue at the moment. they did add the young man s name to a half million other names in a computer database. for the most part, the tip was sort of forgotten. until a month later in december 2009 when umar farouk abdulmutallab boarded a jet going from nigeria to detroit and had 80 grams of petn hidden in his underwear. and now more information. now the government is saying that the underwear bomber and anwar al awlaki, same guy, were introduced through text message.