Nigeria on defensive over ‘terror breeding ground’
LAGOS — Nigeria, a country long synonymous with graft and coups, now has to defend itself over claims that it is a breeding ground for Islamist fundamentalists after last week’s bid to blow up a US airliner. While Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab remains in a Detroit prison cell accused of trying to kill the passengers and crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, officials in his homeland insist the episode does not point to a wider malaise. But terrorism experts say the Christmas Day plot, foiled when the chemical explosives stitched in Abdulmutallab’s underpants failed to explode.... MORESource: The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100105com3.html |
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