An FBI official said AbdulMutallab was included in TIDE after his fatherwarned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria of his son's hard-line beliefs and possible ties to militant Islamists.
An FBI official said AbdulMutallab was included in the U.S. government's Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, after his fatherwarned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria of his son's hard-line beliefs and possible ties to militant Islamists.