The December 2009 plane bomber, Umar Farouk Mutallab, reportedly collapsed over the weekend in the United States prison custody where he is kept as a result of the terror attack attempt he made on a Detroit-bound aircraft on December 25, 2009
A source working with one of the US security agencies reliably told our correspondent that the Nigerian would-be terrorist, Farouk, collapsed in the detention camp as a result of the new offensive moves made by the US security operatives on Al-Qaeda, a notorious terror group.
The source explained that the terror suspect first developed cold feet shortly after he heard about the killing of the late Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the terror group that had claimed responsibility for the 2009 terrorist attack.
LEADERSHIP exclusively gathered that the suspect, who was confident before now that the Al-qaeda hierarchy would stand in for him in the prolonged trial, became highly demoralised with the killings of Osama Bin Laden and another senior Al-qaeda commander, Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan on Saturday.
Ilyas Kashmiri, considered to be planning another terror attack on the US was taken out on Saturday by a US missile launched from an unmanned aircraft that killed nine people during the attack.
Still grieving over Bin Laden’s killing, Farouk AbdulMutallab who had refused to eat since the incident occurred, reportedly collapsed in his prison cell when he heard about Kashmiri’s death.
Our correspondent learnt that the recent demise of the two prominent Al-qaeda leaders had substantially weakened the Yemen branch of the terrorist group which claimed that it sent Mutallab for the attack on the Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day as retaliation for a US operation against the group in Yemen.
“Shortly after bin Laden was shot dead by the American security agents, Farouk Mutallab was persuaded by the FBI’s agents to mention the names of the remaining members of the Al-qaeda who sent him on the deadly mission and now there is hope that he will co-operate with the police since it has become glaring to him that there is no support from the Al-qaeda any longer,” the source noted.
A source working with one of the US security agencies reliably told our correspondent that the Nigerian would-be terrorist, Farouk, collapsed in the detention camp as a result of the new offensive moves made by the US security operatives on Al-Qaeda, a notorious terror group.
The source explained that the terror suspect first developed cold feet shortly after he heard about the killing of the late Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the terror group that had claimed responsibility for the 2009 terrorist attack.
LEADERSHIP exclusively gathered that the suspect, who was confident before now that the Al-qaeda hierarchy would stand in for him in the prolonged trial, became highly demoralised with the killings of Osama Bin Laden and another senior Al-qaeda commander, Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan on Saturday.
Ilyas Kashmiri, considered to be planning another terror attack on the US was taken out on Saturday by a US missile launched from an unmanned aircraft that killed nine people during the attack.
Still grieving over Bin Laden’s killing, Farouk AbdulMutallab who had refused to eat since the incident occurred, reportedly collapsed in his prison cell when he heard about Kashmiri’s death.
Our correspondent learnt that the recent demise of the two prominent Al-qaeda leaders had substantially weakened the Yemen branch of the terrorist group which claimed that it sent Mutallab for the attack on the Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day as retaliation for a US operation against the group in Yemen.
“Shortly after bin Laden was shot dead by the American security agents, Farouk Mutallab was persuaded by the FBI’s agents to mention the names of the remaining members of the Al-qaeda who sent him on the deadly mission and now there is hope that he will co-operate with the police since it has become glaring to him that there is no support from the Al-qaeda any longer,” the source noted.
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