Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab skal ha sagt i avhør at flere selvmordsbombere står klare til å sprenge fly i lufta. Et vitne forteller at Abdulmutallab fikk hjelp til å komme om bord flyet på Schipol-flyplassen.

The fresh-faced engineering graduate was transferred yesterday from hospital in Detroit to a federal prison in Milan, Michigan, where agents questioning him said he told them that he was one of many bombers being groomed by the Yemeni alQaeda affiliate to attack American-bound aircraft, according to ABC News.

The Yemeni authorities confirmed yesterday that Mr Abdulmutallab had been in the country since August.

The disclosures came as Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, said he doubted that Mr Abdulmutallab had acted alone, and Dutch military police announced that they were investigating a witness’s description of an accomplice who may have helped the young Nigerian to board the aircraft in Amsterdam.
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The spectre of a wave of lone suicide bombers attempting to board airliners bound for the US gave fresh urgency to the Dutch investigation of how Mr Abdulmutallab was able to board Northwest Airlines flight 253 despite being on an American watch list and banned from entering Britain.

Two passengers on the flight, Kurt and Lori Haskell, said yesterday that they had seen the young man walk to the gate desk at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, with a well-dressed older man whom they claimed to overhear asking that Mr Abdulmutallab be allowed to board without a passport. «The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time’,» Mr Haskell, a lawyer, told a Detroit news website. The claim was being taken seriously by Dutch authorities last night.

I’m the first of many, warns airline ‘bomber’ Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab