Nigerian broke ties, family reports; father sought U.S. aid to find son
Posted: December 29, 2009 at 2:20 a.m.
A young Nigerian man who purportedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact with his worried parents only a few months before the attack, apparently trading a world of wealth for the calling of a jihadist.
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