North Korea link to Detroit attack investigated

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LONDON – One of the links being investigated regarding a terror attack on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day is whether al-Qaida got help from North Korea in setting it up, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is suspected of carrying aboard the flight from Amsterdam an explosive which while it apparently ignited, failed to explode and bring down the jet.

The 23-year-old suspect is a London University student who reportedly was radicalized by al-Qaida.

As new intelligence information emerges, MI6 has confirmed that during his travels Abdulmutallab met with a key Islamic radical, Anwar al-Awlaki.

Born in the United States, al-Awlaki moved in 2002 to Yemen, where he is now a senior member of the terror group al Qaida Arabian Peninsula . Its 150 members combine Saudi Arabian jihadists with Yemen home-grown radicals.

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Before he left the U.S. al-Awlaki had established a relationship with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army officer who is accused of killing more than a dozen people while running amok in Texas last month.

MI6 agents now believe that two other key members of AQAP have been in contact with North Korean officials – in meetings in Pakistan. The men are the group leader Abdel-Karim al-Wasishi and his Saudi-born deputy Saeed al-Sherri.

The Secret Intelligence Service agents are certain that the two men were instrumental in enrolling Umar Abdulmutallab into one of AQAP's training camps in the vast eastern province of Hadramawt in Yemen.

MI6 agents believe it was there that the young terrorist was taught how to launch the attack on the Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day. It was the latest outrage in a form of terrorism which has been evolving ever since the 9/11 atrocity.

"Since the two towers of New York were destroyed in 2001, al-Qaida [members] have tried ever more to destroy planes by inventive ways, from hiding bombs in their shoes to carrying them inside their bodies," said a senior intelligence officer in London.

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