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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8431470.stm
Father Alerted U.S. about Nigerian Plane Bomb Suspect
(BBC News) Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day, warned U.S. authorities last month about his son's extreme views, say officials. High explosives are believed to have been moulded to the bomber's body and sewn into his underpants. A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device contained the high explosive PETN, also known as pentaerythritol. PETN was used in the device worn by British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in 2001. The bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told investigators he had links to al-Qaeda and received the explosives in Yemen for a suicide attack, after a month of training.