HOUSTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The young Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane showed no signs of radical views at an Islamic seminar in Texas, a leader says.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attended the Ilm Summit at the AlMaghrib Institute in Houston last year, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday. Shaykh Waleed Basyouni, vice president of the institute, said Abdulmutallab did not mix much with the other students, who said he was quiet.
"From what we witnessed, he showed no signs of extremism," Basyouni said Wednesday.
Basyouni said the institute is cooperating with U.S. investigators.
"Our institute's stance against extremism, violence and other related subjects has always been clear," he said. "We unequivocally condemn it in all its forms."
Last year, Abdulmutallab was living in London. His father, who reported his increasingly radical views to U.S. authorities, is a prominent banker in Nigeria.
