Father alerted U.S. to airliner suspect
Posted: December 27, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.
London police enter a building Saturday during a search connected with the attempted terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines flight on Friday.
A 23-year-old Nigerian man who claimed to have ties to al-Qaida was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, as authorities learned his father had warned U.S. officials of concerns about his son.
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