[Iran Press TV Latest] The US intelligence agents have interrogated the father of the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
The FBI and CIA agents met with Umar Mutallab, father of the purported bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at the US embassy in Abuja.
"I can confirm that Umar Mutallab was summoned to the desk office of the US embassy in Abuja, where he was interrogated by men from the CIA and FBI on Monday," a Nigerian intelligence source told AFP on Wednesday.
The CIA and the FBI wanted to know more about his background and that of his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Reports suggested that the father had warned the US intelligence earlier this year against radical inclinations of his son.
Abdulmutallab allegedly worked with Al-Qaeda in last week's bid to bomb the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route to Detroit by igniting explosives stitched into his underwear.
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