Where is ABDUMurtallab:the unsuccessful Christmas day bomber

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Arabic: ﻋﻤﺮ
ﻓﺎﺭﻭﻕ ﻋﺒﺪ ﺍﻟﻤﻄﻠﺐ ; also known as Umar Abdul
Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri ; born
December 22, 1986 in Lagos, Nigeria ), [2][3]
popularly referred to as the ” Underwear
Bomber “, is a British-educated man of
Nigerian and Yemeni descent who, at the age
of 23, confessed to and was convicted of
attempting to detonate plastic explosives
hidden in his underwear while on board
Northwest Airlines Flight 253 , en route from
Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas
Day , 2009. [1][3][4]
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
claimed to have organized the attack with
Abdulmutallab; they said they supplied him
with the bomb and trained him. Connections to
Al-Qaeda and Anwar al-Awlaki have been
found, although the latter denied ordering the
man to do the bombing.
Abdulmutallab was convicted in a U.S. federal
court of eight criminal counts, including
attempted use of a weapon of mass
destruction and attempted murder of 289
people. On February 16, 2012 he was
sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole .[5]
Background
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the youngest of
16 children[6] of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab , a
wealthy Nigerian banker and businessman, and
is a son of his second wife, Aisha. [7] The
father was described by The Times in 2009 as
being “one of the richest men in Africa.” [8] He
is a former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria
and former Nigerian Federal Commissioner for
Economic Development. [6][9][10]
The family comes from Funtua in Katsina
State . Abdulmutallab was raised initially in an
affluent neighborhood of Kaduna, [11][12] in
Nigeria’s north, [6] and at the family home in
Nairobi, Kenya. [13] He attended the Essence
International School in Kaduna as a young
child. He also took classes at the Rabiatu
Mutallib Institute for Arabic and Islamic
Studies, which had been named for his
grandfather, at that time. [14] He also attended
the The British School of Lomé, Togo .[15]
Considered a gifted student, he also enjoyed
playing PlayStation and basketball. [11]
Abdulmutallab studied at University College
London in September 2005, where he studied
Engineering and Business Finance, [16] and
earned a degree in mechanical engineering in
June 2008. [17]
According to one of his cousins, as a teenager,
Abdulmutallab became very pious as a Muslim,
and detached himself from others of his age.
He condemned his father’s banking profession
as “immoral” and “un-Islamic” for charging
interest, urging him to quit. “That kind of
detachment from others and singular focus on
Islam was a common thread in Mr.
Abdulmutallab’s life, according to family
members, friends and classmates.” [11]
Yemen: 2004–05
For the 2004–05 academic year,
Abdulmutallab studied at the San’a Institute
for the Arabic Language in Sana’a , Yemen, and
attended lectures at Iman University. [18][19]
[20][21]
Web postings
CNN reported that in regard to the Internet
username “Farouk1986,” “the many detailed
biographical points made by the poster match
what has been reported about Mutallab’s
life.” [22] On December 28, 2009, a U.S.
government official said the government was
reviewing the online postings, and has not yet
independently confirmed the authenticity of the
posts. [23]
CNN reported that, by 2005, “Farouk1986″‘s
postings “had a serious view of his
religion.” [22] Tracey D. Samuelson of the
Christian Science Monitor said that the posts
“suggest a student preoccupied by university
admissions and English soccer clubs, but who
was also apparently lonely and conflicted.” [24]
The Washington Post reviewed 300 online
postings by “Farouk1986”; Philip Rucker and
Julie Tate of the Washington Post said: “Taken
together, the writings demonstrate an acute
awareness of Western customs and a
worldliness befitting Mutallab’s privileged
upbringing as a wealthy Nigerian banker’s
son.” [23] The user name posted on Facebook
and on Islamic Forum (gawaher.com). [21][24]
[25][26][27][28]
Farouk1986 discussed loneliness and marriage
in his postings between 2005 and 2007,
writing on January 28, 2005:
And:
In a posting on February 20, 2005, he wrote:
And in a May 2005 posting, he referred to the
radical Jamaican -born Muslim cleric Abdullah
el-Faisal , who had been imprisoned in the UK
for urging his followers to murder Jews,
Hindus, and Americans, writing:
In January 2006 he chastised female users for
not wearing the hijab, adding:
London: September 2005 – June 2008
Abdulmutallab began his studies at University
College London in September 2005, where he
studied Engineering and Business Finance, [16]
and earned a degree in mechanical engineering
in June 2008. [6][33][34][35][36]
He was president of the school’s Islamic
Society , which some sources have described
as a vehicle for peaceful protest against the
actions of the United States and the United
Kingdom [37] in the War on Terrorism .[21][38]
[39] During his tenure as president, along with
political discussions, the club participated in
activities such as martial arts training and
paintballing; at least one of the Society’s
paintballing trips involved a preacher who
reportedly said: “Dying while fighting jihad is
one of the surest ways to paradise.” [21]
He is the fourth president of a London student
Islamic society to face terrorist charges in
three years.[40] He organized a conference in
January 2007 under the banner “War on Terror
Week”, and advertised speakers including
political figures, human rights lawyers,
speakers from Cageprisoners , and former
Guantánamo Bay detainees. [41] One lecture,
Jihad v Terrorism, was billed as “a lecture on
the Islamic position with respect to jihad”.[41]
During those years, Abdulmutullab “crossed the
radar screen” of MI5 , the UK’s domestic
counter-intelligence and security agency, for
radical links and “multiple communications”
with Islamic extremists. [42][43]
At the age of 21, Abdulmutallab told his
parents that he wanted to get married; they
refused to allow him to do so on the grounds
that he had not yet earned a master’s degree.
[11]
On June 12, 2008, Abdulmutallab applied for
and received from the U.S. consulate in
London a U.S. multiple-entry visa, valid to
June 12, 2010, with which he visited Houston,
Texas, from August 1–17, 2008. [44][45] After
graduating from university, Abdulmutallab
made regular visits to the family town of
Kaduna, where his father had paid to construct
a mosque. [46]
Dubai: January–July 2009
From January until July 2009, Abdulmutallab
attended a master’s of international business
degree program at University of Wollongong in
Dubai. [47][48][49]
In May 2009, Abdulmutallab tried to return to
Britain, ostensibly for a six-month “life
coaching” program at what the British
authorities concluded was a fictitious school;
the United Kingdom Border Agency denied his
visa application. [33] His name was placed on
a UK Home Office security watch list which,
according to BBC News, means he could not
enter the UK. Passing through the country in
transit was permissible and he was not
permanently banned; the UK did not share the
information with other countries. [50][51] This
status was based on his visa application being
rejected to prevent immigration fraud rather
than for a national security purpose. [13]
Yemen: August–December 2009
Intelligence officials suspect that Al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula member, Anwar al-
Awlaki , may have directed Abdulmutallab to
Yemen for al-Qaeda training. [52]
Abdulmutallab’s father agreed in July 2009 to
his son’s request to return to the San’a
Institute for the Arabic Language in Yemen, to
study Arabic from August to September 2009.
[6][21] He arrived in the country in August.
Abdulmutallab was the only African student in
the school of 70 students. [53] A fellow student
at the Institute said Abdulmutallab would start
his day by going to the mosque for dawn
prayers, and then spent hours in his room
reading the Quran. Ahmed Mohammed, one of
his teachers, said Abdulmutallab spent the last
10 days of Ramadan sequestered in a mosque.
[54] He apparently left the Institute after a
month, while remaining in-country. [6][21][55]
His family became concerned in August 2009
when he called to say he had dropped the
course, but was remaining in Yemen. [6] By
September he routinely skipped his classes at
the Institute and attended lectures at Iman
University, known for suspected links to
terrorism. [21] “He told me his greatest wish
was for sharia and Islam to be the rule of law
across the world,” said one of his classmates
at the Institute. [21]
The Institute obtained an exit visa for him at
his request, and on September 21 arranged for
a car that took him to the airport. But the
school’s director said: “After that, we never
saw him again, and apparently he did not
leave Yemen”. [56]
In October 2009, Abdulmutallab sent his father
a text message saying that he was no longer
interested in pursuing an MBA in Dubai, and
wanted to study sharia and Arabic in a seven-
year course in Yemen. [21] When his father
threatened to cut off his funding,
Abdulmutallab said he was “already getting
everything for free”. [21] When his father asked
who would sponsor him, Abdulmutallab replied
“That’s none of your business.” [57] His text
messages to his father included: “I’ve found a
new religion, the real Islam”; “You should just
forget about me, I’m never coming back”;
“Please forgive me. I will no longer be in touch
with you”; and “Forgive me for any wrongdoing,
I am no longer your child.” [6][21][58] The
family last had contact with Abdulmutallab in
October 2009. [59]
Yemeni officials said that Abdulmutallab was
in Yemen from early August 2009, and
overstayed his student visa (which was valid
through September 21). He left Yemen on
December 7 (flying to Ethiopia, and then two
days later to Ghana). [60][61] Yemeni officials
have said that Abdulmutallab traveled to the
mountainous Shabwah Province to meet with
“al-Qaeda elements” before leaving Yemen. [11]
A video of Abdulmutallab and others training in
a desert camp, firing weapons at targets
including the Jewish star, the British Union
Jack , and the letters “UN”, was produced by
al-Qaeda in Yemen (whose logo is in a corner
of the screen). [62] The tape includes an
apparent martyrdom statement justifying his
actions against “the Jews and the Christians
and their agents.” [62] Ghanaian officials say
he was there from December 9 until December
24, when he flew to Lagos. [63]
In February 2010, a Yemeni security official
said that 43 people were being interrogated for
links to the Christmas Day attempt, including
foreigners, some of them studying Arabic and
others married to Yemeni women.
Abdulmutallab was thought to have used
Arabic studies as a pretext for entering the
country. [64]
Awareness by US Intelligence
On November 11, 2009, British intelligence
officials sent the U.S. a cable indicating that a
man named “Umar Farouk” had spoken to al-
Awlaki, pledging to support jihad, but the cable
did not give Abdulmutallab’s last
name. [ dead link ] [65] On November 19,
Abdulmutallab’s father consulted with two CIA
officers at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria,
reporting his son’s “extreme religious views”,
[6][66] and told the embassy that
Abdulmutallab might be in Yemen. [10][21][35]
[67] Acting on the report, the CIA added the
suspect’s name in November 2009 to the
U.S.’s 550,000-name Terrorist Identities
Datamart Environment , a database of the U.S.
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). It
was not added to the FBI’s 400,000-name
Terrorist Screening Database , the terror watch
list that feeds both the 14,000-name
Secondary Screening Selectee list and the
U.S.’s 4,000-name No Fly List ,[68] nor was
Abdulmutallab’s U.S. visa revoked. [21]
U.S. State Department officials said in
Congressional testimony that the State
Department had wanted to revoke
Abdulmutallab’s visa, but U.S. intelligence
officials requested that his visa not be
revoked. The intelligence officials’ said that
revoking Abdulmutallab’s visa could have foiled
a larger investigation into al-Qaeda. [69]
Abdulmutallab’s name had come to the
attention of intelligence officials many months
before that, [70] but no “derogatory
information” was recorded about him. [45] A
Congressional official said that
Abdulmutallab’s name appeared in U.S.
reports reflecting that he had connections to
both al-Qaeda and Yemen. [71] The NCTC did
not check to see whether Abdulmutallab’s
American visa was valid, or whether he had a
British visa that was valid; they did not learn
that the British had rejected Abdulmutallab’s
visa application earlier in 2009. [13] The British
had not informed the United States because
the visa application was not denied for a
national security purpose. [13]
Contact with Islamists
The New York Times reported that “officials
said the suspect told them he had obtained
plastic explosives that were sewn into his
underwear and a syringe from a bomb expert
in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda.” [72][73]
In April 2009, Abdulmutallab had applied to
attend an Islamic seminar in Houston, Texas.
He obtained a multiple-entry visa in the U.S.
Consulate in June 2008 that would be valid
until June 2010. He attended the Islamic
seminar from August 1–17 at AlMaghrib
Institute . [74] When Abdulmutallab returned to
Yemen later in 2009, purportedly to study
Arabic again, he appeared to have undergone a
personality change: he was more religious and
“a loner”, and wore traditional Islamic clothing.
[75] He rarely attended class, and sometimes
he left class midway to go pray at a mosque.
[11]
Ties to Anwar al-Awlaki

number of sources reported contacts
between Abdulmutallab and Anwar al-Awlaki,
an American-Yemeni Muslim lecturer and
spiritual leader who had been accused of being
a senior al-Qaeda talent recruiter and
motivator. Al-Awlaki, who was killed by an
unmanned United States drone in Yemen in
September 2011, was previously an imam in
the U.S. He was associated with three of the
9/11 hijackers, who prayed at his mosque; the
2005 London Bombings; a 2006 Toronto terror
cell ; a 2007 Fort Dix attack plot ; and the 2009
Fort Hood shooter.[76][77][78][79]
With a blog and a Facebook page, Anwar al-
Awlaki had been described as the ” bin Laden
of the internet.” [80] As a fluent English
speaker, he had used contemporary technology
to communicate with a wide circle of people in
the West.
Despite being banned from entering the UK in
2006, al-Awlaki spoke via video-link in 2007–
09 on at least seven occasions at five different
venues in Britain. [81] He gave a number of
video-link lectures at the East London Mosque
during this period.
Pete Hoekstra, the senior Republican on the
House Intelligence Committee , said on the day
of the attack that Obama administration
officials and officials with access to law
enforcement information told him “there are
reports [the suspect] had contact [with al-
Awlaki]…. The question we’ll have to raise is
was this imam in Yemen influential enough to
get some people to attack the U.S. again.” [82]
[83][84] He added: “The suspicion is … that
[the suspect] had contact with al-Awlaki. The
belief is this is a stronger connection with al-
Awlaki” than Hasan had. [85] Hoekstra later
said credible sources told him Abdulmutallab
“most likely” has ties with al-Awlaki. [86][87]
Meetings with Al-Awlaki
The Sunday Times established that
Abdulmutallab first met and attended lectures
by al-Awlaki in 2005, when he was first in
Yemen to study Arabic.[21][88] The two are
also “thought to have met” in London,
according to The Daily Mail .[89] Fox News
reported that evidence collected during
searches of “flats or apartments of interest”
connected to Abdulmutallab in London showed
that he was a “big fan” of al-Awlaki, based on
his web traffic. [90]
But, there is no clear evidence that the two
men met in London. NPR reported that,
according to unnamed intelligence officials,
Abdulmutallab attended a sermon by al-Awlaki
at the Finsbury Park Mosque “in the fall of
2006 or 2007”, [52] but this was in error, as al-
Awlaki was in prison in Yemen during that
period. The Finsbury Park Mosque said neither
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nor Anwar al-
Awlaki had ever been invited to attend NLCM
since February 2005. [91] CBS News and The
Sunday Telegraph initially reported that
Abdulmutallab attended a talk by al-Awlaki at
the East London Mosque (which al-Awlaki may
have participated in by video teleconference),
[81][92] but the mosque officials said that the
Sunday Telegraph was misinformed. They said
that “Anwar Al Awlaki did not deliver any talks
at the ELM between 2005 and 2008”. [93]
Mark Almond, a University of Oxford historian
and professor of international relations, wrote
that the suspect was “on American security
watch-lists because of his links with … Al-
Awlaki”. [94] CBS News said that the two were
communicating in the months before the
bombing attempt, and sources say that, at a
minimum, al-Awlaki was providing spiritual
support. [95] According to federal sources, over
the year prior to the attack, Abdulmutallab
increased his electronic communications with
al-Awlaki. [96]
Intelligence officials suspect al-Awlaki may
have directed Abdulmutallab to Yemen for al-
Qaeda training. [52] One government source
described intercepted “voice-to-voice
communication” between the two during the
fall of 2009. [97] After being arrested,
Abdulmutallab reportedly told the FBI that al-
Awlaki was one of his trainers when he did al-
Qaeda training in remote camps in Yemen.
There were “informed reports” that
Abdulmutallab met al-Awlaki during his final
weeks of training and indoctrination prior to
the attack. [98][99]
A U.S. intelligence official said that information
pointed to connections between the two:
Yemen’s Deputy Prime Minister for Defense
and Security Affairs, Rashad Mohammed al-
Alimi, said Yemeni investigators believe the
suspect traveled in October to Shabwa, where
he met with suspected al-Qaeda members.
They met in a house built and used by al-
Awlaki to hold theological sessions, and
Abdulmutallab was trained and equipped there
with his explosives. [101]
At the end of January 2010, a Yemeni
journalist, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, said he met
with al-Awlaki, who said he had met and
spoken with Abdulmutallab in Yemen in the fall
of 2009. Al-Awlaki reportedly said
Abdulmutallab was one of his students, that he
supported his actions but had not ordered him,
and that he was proud of the young man. A
New York Times journalist listened to a digital
recording of the meeting, and said that while
the tape’s authenticity could not be
independently verified, the voice resembled that
on other recordings of al-Awlaki. [102]
On April 6, 2010, The New York Times reported
that President Obama had authorized the
targeted killing of al-Awlaki. [103] The cleric
was killed in a US drone attack in Yemen on
September 30, 2011. [104]
Attack
An Airbus A330 similar to the one
involved in the Flight 253
incident.
Main article: Northwest Airlines Flight 253
On Christmas Day 2009, Abdulmutallab
traveled from Ghana to Amsterdam , where he
boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route
to Detroit. He had a Nigerian passport and
valid U.S. tourist visa, and purchased his
ticket with cash in Ghana on December 16.
[105][106] Passengers Kurt and Lori Haskell
told the Detroit News that prior to boarding
the plane they witnessed a “smartly dressed
man” possibly of Indian descent, around 50
years old, and who spoke “in an American
accent similar to my own” helping a passenger
they identified as Abdulmutallab onto the plane
without a passport, apparently posed as a
Sudanese refugee. [107][108]
Abdulmutallab spent about 20 minutes in the
toilet as the flight approached Detroit, and
then covered himself with a blanket after
returning to his seat. Other passengers then
heard popping noises, smelled a foul odor, and
some saw Abdulmutallab’s trouser leg and the
wall of the plane on fire. Fellow passenger
Jasper Schuringa , a Dutch film director,
jumped on Abdulmutallab and subdued him as
flight attendants used fire extinguishers to
douse the flames. [109] Abdulmutallab was
taken toward the front of the airplane cabin,
was seen to have lost his trousers due to the
fire, and had burns on his legs. [110] When
asked by a flight attendant what he had in his
pocket, he replied: “Explosive device.” The
device consisted of a six-inch (15-cm) packet
which was sewn into his underwear [1][111]
[112] containing the explosive powder PETN,
which became a plastic explosive when mixed
[113] with the high explosive triacetone
triperoxide (TATP) (the same two explosives
that were used by Richard Reid in 2001 [114]
[115] ), and a syringe containing liquid acid.
[116] Abdulmutallab created the explosive by
mixing PETN with TATP and other ingredients.
[116]
After successfully landing at the airport,
Abdulmutallab was arrested by U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) Officers and
turned over to the FBI agents pending further
investigation. Abdulmutallab told authorities he
had been directed by al-Qaeda , and that he
had obtained the device in Yemen. [117] Al-
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the
organization’s affiliate in Yemen, subsequently
claimed responsibility for the attack, describing
it as revenge for the United States’ role in a
Yemeni military offensive against al-Qaeda in
that country. [118]
Aftermath
The exterior of Federal
Correctional Institution, Milan
(Michigan), US where
Abdulmutallab was
incarcerated
Two days after the attack, Abdulmutallab was
released from a hospital where he had been
treated for first and second degree burns to his
hands, and second degree burns to his right
inner thigh and genitalia, sustained during the
attempted bombing. [119] He was subsequently
held at the Federal Correctional Institution,
Milan , a US federal prison in Michigan, where
he remained during court proceedings.[120]
New restrictions were imposed on U.S.
travelers, but the government did not publicize
many of them because security officials
reportedly “wanted the security experience to
be ‘unpredictable'”. [121] One day after she
said that the system had “worked”, Secretary
of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
acknowledged that the aviation security
system had indeed failed. [122] President
Barack Obama vowed that the U.S.
government would track down all those
responsible for the attack, and any attack
being planned against the U.S. [122] He also
ordered a review of detection and watch list
procedures. Saying that “totally unacceptable”
systemic and human failures had occurred,
Obama told reporters he was insisting on
“accountability at every level,” but did not give
any details.[123] Criticism of the system’s
failure to prevent Abdulmutallab from boarding
the aircraft in the first place has been
widespread; one critic, former FBI
counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan, has said
that it “should have been lighting up like a
Christmas tree.” [13]
United States Senator Joe Lieberman called for
the Obama administration to pre-emptively
curb terrorism in Yemen and halt plans to
repatriate Guantanamo detainees to Yemen.
[124] Peter Hoekstra and Congressional
Representative Peter T. King [125] also called
for a halt to the repatriation of Guantanamo
detainees from Yemen. [126] Bennie Thompson,
Chairman of the House Homeland Security
Committee , called for a halt to all current
plans with regard to Yemen in light of
Abdulmutallab’s ties there.
Immediately after the attack, Lateef Adegbite,
Secretary General of Nigeria’s Supreme Council
for Islamic Affair, condemned the attack and
said: “We are embarrassed by this incident and
we strongly condemn the alleged action by this
young man. We do not think that there is any
organised Islamic group in Nigeria that is
inclined to such a criminal and violent act. We
condemn such an extreme viewpoint and
action.”
On December 27, The Wall Street Journal
reported that Abdulmutallab’s suspected ties
to jihadists from Yemen could potentially
complicate the Obama administration’s plans
to release Yemeni detainees held in
Guantanamo to Yemen.
On January 27, 2010 the House Committee on
Homeland Security continued a series of
hearings across Capitol Hill that started prior
to January 27, 2010, all looking into the events
leading up to and after the attempted bombing
of Flight 253 over Detroit.  Patrick F.
Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at
the State Department, said Abdulmutallab’s
visa was not taken away because intelligence
officials asked his agency not to deny a visa
to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a
denial would have foiled a larger investigation
into al-Qaeda threats against the United
States.
Though some reactions from the Muslim and
Arabic-speaking media included suspicion that
it was a “set-up to lure the media and expand
the scope and depth of a new chapter in the
war on terror”, [several Muslim
organizations and leaders in both the United
States and the United Kingdom condemned the
terrorist and extremist actions of
Abdulmutallab as contrary to Islamic beliefs.
Concerns in the
media also arose that Nigerians would now be
“unduly stigmatized” due to the incident.
Abdumutallab is now held at United States
Penitentiary, Florence ADX.
Interrogation and court
proceedings
Abdulmutallab was questioned by the
authorities for several hours before being given
medical treatment for his injuries.
On December 26, 2009, Abdulmutallab
appeared in front of Judge Paul D. Borman of
Federal District Court in Detroit and was
formally charged with attempting to blow up
and placing a destructive device on a U.S. civil
aircraft. The hearing took place at University
Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was
receiving treatment for the burns he suffered
when he attempted to detonate the device.[3]
Additional charges were added in a grand jury
indictment on January 6, 2010, including
attempted use of a weapon of mass
destruction and attempted murder of 289
people.
Abdulmutallab initially cooperated with
investigators, then stopped talking. The
decision to read him his Miranda rights,
advising him of his right to remain silent,
generated criticism from a number of mostly
Republican politicians.After the FBI
brought two of Abdulmutallab’s relatives from
Nigeria to the U.S. to speak with him, he once
again began to cooperate
On September 14, 2010, the Associated Press
reported Abdulmutallab had dismissed his
court-appointed defense team in order to
defend himself. The court subsequently
appointed Anthony Chambers to act as
standby counsel.
On October 12, 2011, Abdulmutallab, against
the advice of Chambers, pleaded guilty to the
eight charges against him, including the
attempted use of a weapon of mass
destruction and the attempted murder of the
289 people on the plane. Both charges carry a
mandatory life sentence.
“The Quran allows every Muslim to undertake
jihad,” Abdulmutallab told the court after
changing his plea.”I carried
the device to avenge the killing of my Muslim
brothers and sisters… Unfortunately, my
actions make me guilty of a crime.”
Abdulmutallab called the failed explosives he
had hidden in his underwear a “blessed
weapon” and said he attempted to use it
“because of the tyranny of the United States.”
Abdulmutallab had originally pleaded not guilty
to the charges, but reportedly changed his
mind after the prosecution completed its
opening arguments.
Sentencing was initially scheduled for January
12, 2012, but was subsequently postponed to
February 16, 2012 in order to give
Abdulmutallab more time to review the
presentence investigation report completed by
the United States Probation Service. On
February 13, 2012, Chambers filed a motion
arguing that sentencing his client to life in
prison would constitute cruel and unusual
punishment under the Eighth Amendment to
the United States Constitution because no one
other than his client suffered physical harm
during the attempted attack. [151] The motion
was rejected.
On February 16, 2012, Judge Nancy Edmunds
of Federal District Court in Detroit sentenced
Abdulmutallab to four consecutive life
sentences plus 50 years.[12][152][153]
Abdulmutallab shouted, “Allahu akbar ” five
times during his sentencing, and said that
Muslims were “proud to kill in the name of
God, and that is what God told us to do in the
Quran .”[154]
In a statement after the sentencing,
Abdulmutallab’s family said, “We are grateful
to God that the unfortunate incident of that
date did not result in any injury or death”.hope you enjoyed the story more coming from my research desk…

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