{"id":651932,"date":"2010-02-02T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:22:36","slug":"official-abdulmutallab-%e2%80%9ccooperating%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651932","title":{"rendered":"Official: Abdulmutallab \u201cCooperating\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10290\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 259px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10290\" title=\"Abdulmutallab\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/02\/Abdulmutallab-249x312.jpg?resize=249%2C312\" alt=\"Umar F. Abdulmutallab\" width=\"249\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Umar F. Abdulmutallab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has been &#8220;cooperating&#8221; with authorities after he &#8220;started talking&#8221; to FBI interrogators last week, a law enforcement official told FOX News.<\/p>\n<p>The official said 23-year-old Umar F. Abdulmutallab has been providing leads and &#8220;current, active intelligence&#8221; that the FBI has been able to use and chase down.<\/p>\n<p>The official would not say exactly when Abdulmuttalab started talking or how often FBI interrogators have met with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows what he faces, particularly life imprisonment,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s part of the incentive to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing earlier today, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Abdulmutallab was helpful even after being given his Miranda rights.<\/p>\n<p>A debate has broken out on Capitol Hill and elsewhere over whether Abdulmutallab should have been &#8220;Mirandized&#8221; on Christmas Day after FBI interrogators interviewed him for a total of 50 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury in Detroit has since charged him with trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction, among other offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umar F. Abdulmutallab The Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has been &#8220;cooperating&#8221; with authorities after he &#8220;started talking&#8221; to FBI interrogators last week, a law enforcement official told FOX News. The official said 23-year-old Umar F. Abdulmutallab has been providing leads and &#8220;current, active intelligence&#8221; that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JB2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}