Friday, January 16, 2015

A link between Paris, Detroit terror attacks


Months before the 2009 Christmas Day terror plot that unfolded in Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was training in Yemen. At his side, investigators said, was one of the men responsible for the recent attack at a French satirical newspaper: Said Kouachi.

The two were roommates at an Arabic training school where they met Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011.

Andy Arena was the head of the FBI’s Detroit office when the Christmas Day attack unfolded.

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