UK university looks for signs of extremism

LONDON - The British university attended by the man alleged to have attacked a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day said yesterday that it would investigate whether there was anything at the school that could push students toward extremism.

Some security specialists criticized the leadership of University College London after it emerged that Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab served as the leader of the school’s Islamic Society in 2007. The university had previously said it would investigate, and it announced yesterday that its inquiry would examine whether there were “conditions at UCL that might contribute to the radicalization of students.’’