Who Is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab?

Alhaji Umar Mutallab, father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
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Alhaji Umar Mutallab, 70, is the retired chairman of Nigeria's oldest bank, First Bank. In October 2009, he called the American embassy in Lagos to advise them of his concerns about his son, who, he said, had developed radical views and had disappeared, possibly to Yemen.

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