Here's a rare chance to step inside a would-be terrorist's head. From 2005 to 2007, underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appears to have posted 310 times to the Islamic Forum on Gawaher.com, under the handle "Farouk1986." Now, all of Farouk1986's posts have been assembled into a single file, thanks to Evan Kohlmann, the NEFA Foundation's indefatigable jihadism researcher. I'd be curious to see what you guys find out about the man who tried to take down Northwest Airlines flight # 253.

"i do not have a friend, i have no one to speak too, no one to consult, no one to support me and i feel depressed and lonely. i do not know what to do," he complained in one post.

Online, he questioned whether it was okay to take meals with his parents, even though they ate meat he considered unclean. He asked if Muhammad were alive today, "would he watch [soccer], play it, encourage it or what?" He talked about how much he enjoyed his studies in Yemen. He wondered, "when is lying allowed to deceive the enemy?" And he denounced the "global War On Terror [which resulted] in the death of thousands of innocent lives and thousands more detained illegally without trial or judgement [sic]."

But that's just the start of the trail Abdulmutallab left behind, online. Take a look at the Gawaher posts, poke around other sites, and post what you learn in the comments.

[Photo: U.S. Marshalls]