From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 10:52:37 EST
FBI probe US plane bomber's contacts in Ghana: minister
Published: Wednesday January 6, 2010
FBI agents in Ghana are trying to piece together the movements of the
would-be Nigerian plane bomber and identify those he met during a two-week
stay that ended the day before he flew to Detroit, a minister said
Wednesday.
"The FBI are still in the country to thoroughly investigate whom the culprit
might have been in contact with while in Ghana," Deputy Information Minister
James Agyenim-Boateng told AFP.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are working closely with Ghana's
Bureau of National Investigations to build a picture of Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab's movements during a trip that began December 9.
The minister refused to give details of the investigation, which he said was
going smoothly.
"It will take a little bit of time before the investigations would be
concluded," he said.
The 23-year-old suspect flew out of Ghana on December 24, transiting at
Lagos for a flight to Amsterdam and on to Detroit, where on December 25 he
was overpowered by fellow passengers as he tried to set off a bomb hidden in
his underwear as the Northwest Airlines plane came in to land.
Abdulmutallab had flown into Ghana from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Agyenim-Boateng said on Tuesday that the suspect gave one hotel as his
address in Accra, but checked into a different one.
He bought the ticket for the Northwest flight in Ghana on December 16.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/8431470.stm
BBC
The family have told the BBC Hausa service that they lost contact with Mr
Mutallab in October, when he was living in Yemen.
He left there for Ethiopia, then went to Ghana and finally Nigeria, US
officials have told his family.
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