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'Bomb attack bid' on US airliner

I had enjoyed Christmas Day and was preparing for the Boxing Day Sales. I always had the sneaky suspicion that most of the shops had been artificially inflating their prices to yield a maximum profit and now their wares were back to their ‘real prices’. I had tried to restrict my spending as much as possible in the run up to Christmas. Now, I would spend, spend and spend i.e. the £60 that I had managed to save. Then, I heard a piece of news that shocked me, on the BBC morning news on Boxing Day. It hit me with the full strength of a Tsunami, after hearing the news it came out as “ NIGERIAN AL-QUEDA AGENT CAUGHT TRYING TO BOMB THE US ON CHRISTMAS DAY ". What had happened is that a certain Mr Abdul Mudallad (aka. Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab), 23, a Nigerian national who is an engineering student at the student at University College London, ‘allegedly’ tried to blow up a Delta flight on route from Amsterdam to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA on Christma