It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda and that this group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America.
President Obama discusses the involvement of al Qaeda in the Christmas Day airline terror plot.
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