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Nigeria attacker cut contact with family
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December 28, 2009, Monday
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THE family of a Nigerian man who tried to blow up a US passenger jet said today they had lost contact with him while he was studying abroad and had reported his disappearance to security agencies two months ago.
"His father, having become concerned about his disappearance and stoppage of communication while schooling abroad, reported the matter to Nigerian security agencies about two months ago and to some foreign security agencies about a month and a half ago," the Mutallab family said in a statement.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board.
"The disappearance and cessation of communication which got his mother and father concerned ... are completely out of character and a very recent development," said the family statement, which was sent to Nigerian media.
Abdulmutallab, the son of a respected former banker, started his journey to Detroit in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, where he boarded a KLM flight to Amsterdam before going through transit at Schiphol airport.
He was educated at the British School in Lome, Togo -- a boarding school mostly serving expatriates and students from around West Africa -- before studying engineering at University College London (UCL), where he was enrolled until June 2008.
"His father, having become concerned about his disappearance and stoppage of communication while schooling abroad, reported the matter to Nigerian security agencies about two months ago and to some foreign security agencies about a month and a half ago," the Mutallab family said in a statement.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board.
"The disappearance and cessation of communication which got his mother and father concerned ... are completely out of character and a very recent development," said the family statement, which was sent to Nigerian media.
Abdulmutallab, the son of a respected former banker, started his journey to Detroit in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, where he boarded a KLM flight to Amsterdam before going through transit at Schiphol airport.
He was educated at the British School in Lome, Togo -- a boarding school mostly serving expatriates and students from around West Africa -- before studying engineering at University College London (UCL), where he was enrolled until June 2008.
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