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FAILED Nigerian suicide bomber, Mr. Umar AbdulMutallab, has warned that other young men are being trained by Al Qaeda to bring down United States’ airlines.

Meanwhile, photographs of the would-be suicide bombers had been revealed just as Internet postings allegedly by Abdulmutallab emerged.

A ‘Farouk 1986’ posted hundreds of messages on the Islamic Forum Website from around 2005 and on Facebook.

It also emerged on Monday night that the failed bomber was president of a notoriously extreme student Islamic Society while studying in Britain.

Abdulmutallab had on Christmas Day smuggled a packet of explosives on board the Amsterdam-Detroit plane by sewing it to the crotch of his underpants.


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As the trans-atlantic flight neared its close, he attempted to detonate the bomb by injecting the packet with a chemical-filled syringe.

But it failed to work properly, setting on fire and leaving the 23-year-old with severe burns to his groin after passengers and police brought him under control.

The University College London engineering graduate had told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he was tutored in terrorism while living for a month with a senior Al Qaeda commander in Yemen.

According to Mail Online, the young Nigerian was said to have warned that other young men were being trained in Yemen to bring down US airlines, boasting, “There are plenty more like me.”

Al-Qaeda admitted on Monday night that it was behind the Abdulmutallab’s suicide bombing attempt.

Abdulmutallab, who is believed to have been radicalised during his time at University College London, swapped western clothing for a skull cap and Islamic robes during his final year of an engineering degree in 2007/2008.

Mail Online reported that UCL Provost Malcolm Grant confirmed that Abdulmutallab was president of the university’s Islamic Student Society for the 2006/2007 session and had graduated in mechanical engineering.

He said on Monday, “The account I have had from his tutors is that he was a well-mannered student, quietly spoken, polite and able, and gave no indication at all of what his inclinations might be.

“We are very shocked by what has happened and we will be reflecting on it very carefully as further details emerge and reviewing all aspects of it, but - as presently advised - there was nothing about his conduct which gave his tutors any cause for concern.

“We admit our students wholly on merit. We make no reference to their political, racial, religious background or beliefs. That is fundamental to what we do. So, we can’t vet students in any effective way at that point.”

A source at UCL said, “When he started you wouldn’t even have known that he was a Muslim, but then, in the third year, he started wearing the white flowing Islamic robes and skull cap. We were all very shocked when we saw that he was involved in trying to blow up a plane - it seemed completely out of character.”

Meanwhile, Internet postings allegedly from Abdulmutallab have emerged, according to The Sun of United Kingdom.

US federal intelligence officials on Monday night started reviewing the Internet postings believed to have been written by Abdulmutallab, according to The Sun, quoting the Washington Post.

The newspaper, which has reviewed the postings, reported that ‘Farouk 1986’ (a combination of his middle name and his birth year) searched for friends online through Facebook and in Islamic chat rooms.

In one such postings, he wrote, “My name is Umar but you can call me Farouk.”

A posting from January 2005, when he was attending boarding school, read, “I have no one to speak to. No one to consult, no one to support me and I feel depressed and lonely. I do not know what to do. And then I think this loneliness leads me to other problems.”