WASHINGTON — It now appears that it wasn’t only the Americans who dropped the ball in the case of the suspected Nigerian plane bomber.
The Times of London reports that British security services “knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had ‘multiple communications’ with Islamic extremists in Britain” but none of the information was shared with the U.S.
“Counterterrorism officials said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was “reaching out” to extremists whom MI5 had under surveillance while he was studying at University College London,” the paper reported.
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