(Times-UK) Dan McDougall and Claire Newell - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to kill almost 300 people by blowing up a transatlantic passenger jet, attended lectures by the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the Iman University in Yemen in 2005. Awlaki's sermons provided inspiration to at least six terror cells in the UK, including two of the 7/7 bombers who killed 52 commuters in London in 2005. Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971 when his father, a former Yemeni minister, was studying for a college degree. As an imam in Denver, San Diego and Falls Church, Virginia, he came into contact with three of the 9/11 hijackers. He is also linked to Major Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood killings last November.
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