BBC Excuses UK Islamic Society over Bomber

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In a flagrant attempt to clear the Islamic Society in the UK by dismissing the possibility that the Detroit Bomber, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, had not expressed any radical thoughts while president there, the BBC has run an article detailing an interview of a friend of his to confirm it. Basically, he was a 'lovely guy' until he left the UK.

Plane bomb suspect 'radicalised after leaving UK'

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged over the incident
A former close friend of the man accused of trying to blow up a US plane has said he believes he was radicalised after leaving the UK in 2008

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I'm not a journalist, but it took me less than a minute to find this article about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who according to another friend of his, showed evidence of radicalization after 9/11, before he ever came to the UK.

"We were together in Lome when the twin towers crashed and we watched it on TV," the friend said. "We used to call him "Pope because of the stately manner in which he carried himself. He was kind of quiet but anytime when there was an argument he would just come alive. After the 9/11 thing he actually defended the Taliban's actions saying that they were provoked.

Everyone thought he was kidding but he stood his ground."

But naturally, we don't expect the BBC to question anything a Muslim says, or really do the job they're supposed to, like INVESTIGATE A STORY - NOT JUST FOLLOW A PREDETERMINED BIAS.

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There's further fuel to show just how much the BBC will disregard the security of our nation to pursue their own agenda. While they have been hasty to seek out and run an unchallenged interview of a so called friend of the Detroit bomber to vow that Abdulmutallab had not expressed extremist views while president of the UK Islamic Society, it turns out that MI5 knew that he had communicated with extremist groups back in 2005.

While this story immediately refutes what the BBC are pushing, imagine the other distortions the BBC has as its output that go unchallenged.

MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s UK extremist links
David Leppard

The security services knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had “multiple communications” with Islamic extremists in Britain, it emerged this weekend.

Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was “reaching out” to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London.

Officials said the 23-year-old Nigerian was “starting out on a journey” in Britain that culminated in his attempt to bring down flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day.

None of the information was passed to American officials, which will prompt questions about intelligence failures prior to the attack.

British officials have now passed a file to their US counterparts on Abdulmutallab’s activities in Britain while he was a student from 2005 to 2008. It shows his repeated contacts with MI5 targets who were subject to phone taps, email intercepts and other forms of surveillance.

Intelligence officials have defended their decision not to flag Abdulmutallab as a possible terrorist risk. They say he was one of many youths who mix with extremists, but are not themselves thought to be involved in plotting or supporting terrorism.

A senior Whitehall official said the intelligence agency had conducted a quick assessment of Abdulmutallab while he was living in London and concluded that he was not a threat to national security.

“There had to be a judgment made depending on the nature of the relationship as to whether there was any threat,” said one official. “Someone will have judged: okay, [he is] noted but if there was no evidence of a threat, [they would] move on.”

British officials believe Abdulmutallab was recruited to undertake the Detroit plot after he left Britain, most probably while he was in Yemen last summer. Up to a dozen young British Muslims are thought to be engaged in terrorist training there, according to officials.

While in Britain, Abdulmutallab attended a mosque in Goodge Street, central London, which is run by the Muslim World League, a Saudi-based organisation. The league promulgates a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, but has repeatedly condemned terrorism.

One of the radical preachers believed to have inspired Abdulmutallab is the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is based in Yemen and is believed to have inspired several terrorist cells in Britain and the United States.

The Sunday Times has established that Abdulmutallab first encountered Awlaki while he was studying Arabic in Yemen in 2005.

US intelligence officials are now investigating the scale and nature of contacts between the two men.

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Following reports that MI5 knew Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been contacting extremists while in Britain, it would be logical for a media editor to then examine the agenda of Britains Islamic Society, of which Abdulmutallab was president while here. Considering the BBC were quick to find somebody who knew him to claim that he wasn't radicalised while here, you'd think now the truth comes out that they would be first to run the story.

That's what would happen anyway if the BBC weren't biased.

Since they are, now it's emerged that MI5 warned the US back in 2008 concerning this individual, the BBC have simply 'buried' this fact deep inside another story.

Never mind what these so called 'moderate' Muslim groups do inside this country to bring down our society , trust the BBC to help them achieve their goals.

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"Methinks thou protesteth too much" was a line from Hamlet to show how the more the guilty pronounce their innocence, the more they show their guilt.

So further into this saga, now UCL, the College where the Detroit Bomber attended while in London, has also claimed that he was not radicalised while there. You will notice in the BBC report not one mention of what the UK Intelligence departments had warned about this individual while he was here. But then the BBC are more interested in twisting truth to suit their agenda, and skipping those facts which show something quite different.

Plane bomb suspect 'not radicalised at London's UCL'

A man accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic airliner was not radicalised while at a UK university, a report has concluded.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab studied at University College London before his alleged Christmas Day 2009 attack on a Detroit-bound jet.

But a report for the university said the Nigerian graduate had not turned to al-Qaeda while studying in London.

However, the panel said the risk of radicalisation could not be eliminated.

The report also says the university should monitor those who speak on campus.

Mr Abdulmutallab is currently awaiting trial in the United States accused of the attempted bombing.

Passengers overpowered the former UCL student after he had allegedly attempted to ignite explosives hidden in his underwear.

He has indicated to the court that he will plead guilty to some offences at his eventual trial.

The student graduated from UCL in 2008, having spent three years studying engineering with business finance.

He then left the UK to study in Dubai - and later joined an Arabic language course in Yemen.

The UCL council asked a panel, chaired by an outside academic, to look into Mr Abdulmutallab's time at the university.

The report, published on Friday, said: "There is no evidence to suggest either that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was radicalised while a student at UCL or that conditions at UCL during that time or subsequently are conducive to the radicalisation of students."

Press commentators
The panel said a "consistent" picture had emerged from interviews with the former student's contemporaries.

They all said he was modest, polite, well-spoken and friendly. Nobody had reported any significant change in his character or behaviour.

Some of his Muslim friends considered him an "unlikely terrorist" because he was well versed in the Koran.

However, the report raised concerns about how effective the university and students' union had been at monitoring who was coming onto campus to speak at events.

In the wake of the arrest, a number of press commentators and think tanks attacked universities for not doing enough to stop extremist preachers speaking on campuses.

The UCL report said that both the university and the union should take steps to better monitor who was speaking at events - but said that there was no evidence that the students' own Islamic society was extreme.

It said the university should formally scrutinise events on the fringe of the campus and review its own code on freedom of speech in the light of a separate review of the issue by Universities UK, the national umbrella body.

It added the risk of radicalisation cannot be "eliminated" without altering UCL's educational mission and character.

Sir Stephen Wall, Chair of UCL Council, said: "He was sociable, he was affable, played football, he was a devout Muslim but in no sense proselytising, so, we don't know.

"He's in America, the Americans will no doubt find out. What was it between UCL and Yemen, and the plane to America, that apparently changed him."