Stephen Adams
London Telegraph
Sunday, Dec 27th, 2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of
trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, defended the Taliban
in classroom discussions, his high school teacher has said.
Abdulmutallab, now 23, believed the Taliban were
“right and proper” to blow up the Bamiyan statues of Buddha
in March 2001, said history teacher Mike Rimmer.
The terrorist suspect, accused of trying to detonate a bomb on board
the Airbus A330 as it came in to land at Detroit airport on Christmas
Day, also defended their crackdown on harmless activities such as kite
flying.
At the time Mr Rimmer, a Briton who taught teenage Abdulmutallab at
the British School of Lomé in Togo, west Africa, did not think
such talk truly indicated extremist views.
Mr Rimmer described the Nigerian as a “model pupil” who was interested in world affairs.
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