It was here on the manicured tennis courts and lawns that Abdulmutallab first is believed to have started to express his radical [...]]]> Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab does not fit the accepted profile of a terrorist, but yet his apparent involvement in Islamist militancy began nonetheless just a step away from Oxford Street at the University College London.

It was here on the manicured tennis courts and lawns that Abdulmutallab first is believed to have started to express his radical views. This is just the first of many truths that investigators are trying to pin down after he attempted to detonate an explosive device on a flight into Detroit, MI in the USA on Christmas Day.

Investigators are not having much luck however, as his tale does not match most terrorists. He was born into a life of extreme riches to Uma Farouk Mutallab who is one of the most prominent businessmen in Nigeria.

An old professor of his at the Togo university school, Michael Rimmer, said that Abdulmutallab was a model student and that he was very polite and actively engaged in his education.

However, he did poignantly remember that after Sept. 11th while other students reacted in the expected fashion including other Muslims students, Abdulmutallab said that he sided with the terrorists and that they possibly had it right.

This has the same feel as the failed Glasgow airport terrorists, who clearly had no funding or support and nothing that resembled a real plan, they were also wealthy and educated and in no way sidelined by British society.

This latest attack gives the impression of a ‘wanabe’ terrorist who saw this as his way to immortality in certain people’s eyes, perhaps he will follow the shoe bomber and become the “hands burnt to bits bomber”.