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Terror Attack: Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Personalities

Northwest Airlines Flight 253 After Attempted Terrorist Attack

Northwest Airlines Flight 253 After Attempted Terrorist Attack

Jasper Schuringa--Dutch passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 who subdued the attempted bomber. Schuringa is a video director and producer from Amsterdam.

Abdul Farouk Umar Muttalab --Nigerian man who allegedly attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, 2009. He is the son of former First Bank PLC chairman Alhaji Umar Mutallab, and was a student at University College of London.

Alhaji Umar Mutallab--Nigerian Banking executive who tried to alert American authorities of his son's extremist views some six months prior to the Christmas Day Bombing Attempt.

 

 

Links and Resources:

Jasper Schuringa subdued alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Northwest Airlines 253-New York Daily News, Dec. 26, 2009

 A Very Bourgeois Would-Be Bomber--The Atlantic, Dec. 26, 2009

'Hero' Tells How He Foiled Jet Bomb Plot --SkyNews, Dec. 26, 2009

Restrictions Rise After Terrorism Attempt--New York Times, Dec. 26, 2009

Jet passengers overpowered would-be bomber--LA Times, Dec. 25, 2009

Statement by Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary Sara Kuban--Dept. of Homeland Security Press Release, Dec. 25, 2009

Bomb Attempt on U.S.-Bound Flight : Man on Flight to Detroit Claims al Qaeda Ties; Obama Tightens Security--WSJ, December 25, 2009

 

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