Bomber not radicalised in the UK

[ukmum]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11495399

Plane bomb suspect 'not radicalised at London's UCL'
Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab Mr Abdulmutallab graduated from UCL in 2008

A man accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic airliner was not radicalised while at a UK university, a report has concluded.




This was discussed quite extensively at the time on various threads at the time.

[Ought Six]

First, the report does not say that he definitely was not radicalized at UCL. It says there is no evidence that he was radicalized there. So they are not saying, "no, it did not happen". They are saying, "we do not know".

Second, this report saying "no evidence of radicalization going on at UCL" was commissioned by UCL itself. Universities work very, very hard to protect their image to keep up the flow of new applicants and donations. This reports stinks of a PR whitewash job.