Somali tried to board plane with chemicals, syringe

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(CNN) -- A man tried to board a commercial airliner in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month with chemicals that authorities believe could have been used as an explosive device, an African Union official said Wednesday.

 

The suspect, Abdi Hassan Abdi, tried to board a Daallo Airlines flight with a plastic bag containing 600 grams of ammonium nitrate and half a liter of concentrated sulfuric acid in a plastic bottle, according to Wafula Waminyinyi, the deputy special representative for the African Union Mission for Somalia.

 

Waminyinyi said that Abdi also had approximately 5 milliliters of an unidentified liquid in a syringe that he tried to carry on board the flight, which was bound first for the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then Djibouti, and then Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. He said that the African Union believes the chemicals could have caused an explosion.

 

The details bear resemblance to those from the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan.

 

A preliminary FBI analysis found that the device suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab allegedly carried aboard contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive also known as PETN. The amount of explosive was sufficient to blow a hole in the aircraft, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN Sunday.

 

Part of the explosive device was sewn into the suspect's underwear. And FBI agents recovered what appear to be the remnants of a syringe near the seat.

 

Because the syringe was destroyed, investigators are having trouble determining the accelerant the suspect tried to use to light the explosive.

 

AbdulMutallab, of Nigeria, is in custody in the United States and charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft.

 

In the November 11 incident in Somalia, African Union peacekeeping forces arrested Abdi after they searched him and discovered the chemicals, Waminyinyi said.

 

He had drawn suspicion because he was the last one to board the flight, Waminyinyi said.

 

No further details were immediately available.

 

Abdi was handed over to the Somali National Security Agency, and Waminyinyi believes he remains in custody.

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Somalia freed suspect with chemicals, syringe

 

 

So sad every shyte is blamed on poor somalis these days. However, justice prevailed in this one. This is an incident that happened in November but some how crueled out of the wood-works now so some AMISON NIGGA could cash in!!

read it here:

 

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Somali court acquitted and released a suspect who tried to board a plane in Mogadishu in November with chemicals and a syringe — materials similar to those used in the attempted attack against a Detroit-bound airliner.

 

The news that Somali officials freed the suspect will hamper efforts by U.S. investigators to learn if the two attempted attacks were linked. Terrorism analysts had said the arrest in Somalia could prove highly valuable to the Detroit investigation.

 

Somali Police Commissioner Gen. Ali Hassan Loyan said the court released the suspect on Dec. 12 after ruling that officials hadn't demonstrated he intended to commit a crime. The man, whose name has not been released, said the chemicals were to process camera film.

 

In light of the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound plane, Loyan said Somali authorities would collaborate with U.S. officials and share information and the confiscated materials.

 

“Somalia's federal government affirms that it is ready to double its cooperation with the countries in the world, particularly with America, for it is clear that the incident that happened in Mogadishu and the one that happened in a region in America are similar,” Loyan told a news conference in the Somali capital.

 

U.S. officials learned yesterday about the early November incident at Mogadishu's international airport and began investigating for links between it and the Detroit case.

 

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said U.S. investigators were working with Somali authorities, and linking the case to the Christmas attack “would be speculative at this point.”

 

A Nairobi-based diplomat, though, said the incident has similarities to the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound plane. The Somali was said to have a syringe, liquid and powdered chemicals — tools similar to those used by the Nigerian suspect on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.

 

The Somali suspect was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before boarding the Daallo Airlines plane bound for the northern Somali city of Hargeisa. The plane was then headed to Djibouti and Dubai.

 

A government-appointed expert concluded that the suspects' materials could not have brought down the commercial airliner. Loyan said the expert did conclude though that the materials were a danger to the aircraft.

 

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This is garbage! It's simply baseless. It's all cock up. Like you said, it's so easy to blame it all on the poor, defenceless Somalis nowadays.