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Terror Suspect's Visitor


Last Update: 2/09 12:57 am
Terror Suspect's Visitor
(WXYZ) - The man accused of trying to blow-up a plane on Christmas Day here in Detroit is getting a special visitor.

ABC News sources are saying Alhaji Umara Mutallab, the father of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, traveled to the U.S. last Thursday night to visit his son at the federal prison in Milan.

Sources say Abdul Mutallab's father is at the prison to try and help federal agents coax more intelligence out of his son.

 
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