Abuja — "We detect some double standards here. What Farouk (Abdulmutallab) attempted to do is not different from what the shoe bomber did in 2001 and yet his country was not put on the security list."
With those words Nigeria on Tuesday protested its inclusion on the United States terror list, as stated to reporters in Abuja by Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, after he met with the American Ambassador to Nigeria, Robins Sanders.
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