Again, Elroy, this is what the UK Times says on his travel ...We'll all know more for sure in a week or two. The article is worth reading and provides more detail than we have seen so far...
December 28, 2009
Abdulmutallab's bomb plans began with classroom defence of 9/11
The son of one of Africa’s richest families was called "Imam" by fellow students as he descended into fanaticism
timesonline.co.uk
British authorities refused him a visa in May because they suspected that he was trying to attend a bogus college course. Soon afterwards his father became so concerned with his extremist views that he alerted the US Embassy in Nigeria, Nigerian security and the Saudis. The family last had contact with Mr Abdulmutallab in October when he was in Yemen.
He travelled to Ethiopia and then Ghana. The return ticket for his trip to Detroit, via Amsterdam, was bought at KLM’s office in Accra on December 16 for $2,831 (£1,770).
Unusually for a potential suicide bomber, he took the trouble to change his return destination, replacing Ghana with Lagos. He arrived in Nigeria on Christmas Eve.
Last month he was put on the US Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, a watchlist of 550,000 names. He was never regarded as dangerous enough to reach the 4,000-strong “no-fly” list. British authorities have a record of him, believed to be based on the Americans sharing their own list
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