Underwear bombing suspect visited Houston last year

Houston Chronicle:

As some Houston leaders called Sunday for measures to help guard against future terrorist attacks, others questioned why the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit spent time last year in Houston.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is believed to have traveled to Houston in 2008, but no details of the trip were available Sunday.

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U.S. government officials did confirm that they are looking into his travel itinerary, but the FBI and other agencies refused to comment.

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Local Nigerians have reacted to the news with sadness and disappointment, receiving it as another blow, said Houston resident Chido Nwangwu, founder and publisher of USAfrica, the largest online publication covering African-American news.

Nigeria has already become synonymous with corruption, and now a Nigerian stands accused of a terrorist, said Nwangwu, a U.S. citizen who came to Houston in 1992.

“This is unlike Nigerians,” Nwangwu said. “It is not in the nature of Nigerians to do what has been alleged. … This is an extremely unusual event.”

It is, unfortunately, the nature of Islamic religious bigots to engaged in mass murder for Allah operations, and this certainly has that appearance. The local Nigerian population has some very high achievers who have done well with the opportunities available to them in this country. They have escaped from the rot of corruption that festers in Nigeria as well as the religious bigotry that has festered among some Muslims.

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