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Flight 253 Scare

Basically some 23 year old, depressed Yemen citizen turned al-qaeda wannabe tried to detonate some PETN [Pentaerythritol tetranitrate] which failed.

http://www.cnn.com/video/world/2009/...nn.416x234.jpg

Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for this 'attempted attack' which is hilarious considering the massive failure.

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?...CURITY-AIRLINE

Quote:

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, had been studying for a masters degree in Dubai when he told his parents he was going to Yemen to study Arabic for a few weeks, Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters in the capital Abuja.

"After a few weeks he now sent a message to the parents that he wanted to stay back and study sharia for seven years and the father said no, you can't do that," Akunyili said.

"The father said they were not ready to send him school fees or money for upkeep, that he should go back to Dubai and complete his masters. (But Abdulmutallab) said he was going to get everything free," she said.

Abdulmutallab has been charged with trying to blow up a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board.

A regional wing of al Qaeda said it was behind the failed Christmas Day bombing, which was meant to avenge U.S. attacks on the group in Yemen, according to a web statement.

"(This report) confirms what we have been saying, that the boy did not have backing from here," Akunyili said.

"The boy was not enlisted in Nigeria, was not trained in Nigeria, was not supported by Nigerians, not even by his parents," Akunyili said.

Abdulmutallab's family said in a statement on Monday they had lost contact with their son while he was studying abroad and reported his disappearance to Nigerian security agencies about two months ago and to foreign agencies a few weeks later.

His father has been meeting with Nigerian and U.S. intelligence agencies in Abuja since the attack

How to survive a Plane crash
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/2...ash/index.html