Nigerian Underwear Bomber ‘Abdulmutallab’ Sentenced to Life in Prison

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Underwear-bomber-Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab LIFE SENTENCE

Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on Thursday (Feb.16) sentenced to spend his life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives hidden in his underwear. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in Detroit sentenced him to life in prison on five counts and 20 years on three other counts.

This is an act of terrorism that cannot be quarreled with, the defendant “poses a significant ongoing threat to U.S. citizens everywhere – Judge Edmunds

Abdulmutallab was accused of trying to detonate explosives in his underwear as Northwest Airlines Flight 253, with 279 passengers and 11 crew members, approached Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. He set fire to his clothing and a wall before passengers subdued him.

The U.S. said Abdulmutallab traveled to Yemen to become involved in a violent jihad on behalf of al-Qaeda and practiced detonating explosives before the failed attack. The attack on the Northwest flight was masterminded by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic cleric who was killed last year in an American missile attack in Yemen, prosecutors said. Read full story HERE!

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