Attempted Bomber's Story Comes to Light via Online Forum Posts
The cover of the book that is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has "terrorist" written nowhere on it. The clean-cut, boyish face and the soft, timid eyes in the photograph above would seem more at home on the neck of a college classmate or fellow commuter than it would the shoulders of an Al Qaeda operative and attempted airplane bomber. If there is such a thing as a "typical" terrorist (and it's hard ...









