Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, who tried
to bring down Northwest
flight 253 over Detroit on
Christmas Day 2009 with
an underwear bomb, said
he was was "proud to kill
in the name of God"
before he was sentenced
to multiple life sentences
today in a Detroit
courtroom.
"Today is a day of victory
and God is great," said
Abdulmutallab, 25. He
also said that al Qaeda
would one day be
victorious, and that acts
like his will continue until
"the righteous servants
of Allah inherit the
world."
"The defendant has
never expressed doubt or
remorse about his
mission," said Judge
Nancy Edmunds in
imposing four life
sentences plus 50 years.
"To the contrary, he sees
that mission as divinely
inspired and a continuing
mission."
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Cathleen Corken had
asked Judge Edmunds to
impose the maximum
sentence allowable for
Abdulmutallab's "cold-
blooded, calculated plan
to kill everyone aboard
the plane."
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"We ask the court to
impose the maximum
sentence on each count,"
said Corken, "to ensure
that he never again will
have the chance to harm
an American citizen."
Earlier, five passengers
who had been on flight
253 each got a chance to
speak. Shama Chopra of
Montreal told
Abdulmutallab, "You had
no right to take my life,"
but then handed
Abdulmutallab's lawyer a
rosary to give to the 25-
year-old Nigerian, who is
a devout Muslim.
New York immigration
lawyer Theophilus
Maranga told
Abdulmutallab, "My
family prays for you." He
also told the judge he is
now afraid to fly.
Maranga is suing Delta
Airlines and KLM-Air
France for injuries he
says he sustained while
subduing Abdulmutallab.
Northwest flight
attendant Lamare Mason
put out the flames
ignited by
Abdulmutallab's bomb. He
told the judge that he
wakes up in night
sweats, and that
Abdulmutallab had
robbed him of "the
pleasure of going to
work." Kurt Haskell, a
Michigan lawyer, praised
Mason for damping the
flames and also criticized
what he characterized as
lax security that allowed
Abdulmutallab to get on
the plane. Haskell, who
has long promoted a
conspiracy theory that
asserts the U.S.
government was
complicit in the attack,
repeated his assertion. "I
am convinced that Umar
was given an
intentionally defective
bomb by a U.S. agent to
stage a false terrorist
attack."
Then the federal
government showed a
52-second videotape
showing the effect of
200 grams of PTN
exploding on a sheet of
aluminum. The
government estimates
that Abdulmutallab's
original bomb contained
at least 200 grams of
PETN.
The life sentence was
mandatory after
Abdulmutallab pled guilty
last year to eight
charges, including
attempted murder,
attempted use of a
weapon of mass
destruction and
conspiracy to commit an
act of terrorism.
Prosecutors asked for
consecutive life terms,
calling him "an
unrepentant would-be
mass murderer who
views his crimes as
divinely inspired and
blessed."

He is expected to be sent
to the federal
"supermax" pentitentiary
in Florence, Colorado. The
prison, widely considered
the most secure in the
U.S., already houses other
notorious inmates,
including Unabomber Ted
Kaczynski, Oklahoma City
bombing conspirator
Terry Nichols, Times
Square bomber Faisal
Shahzad, 9/11
conspirator Zacarias
Moussaoui, and 1993
World Trade Center
bombing conspirator
Ramzi Yousef.
Abdulmutallab refused to
see his parents, who
traveled to the U.S. and
tried to visit him at the
federal prison in Milan,
Michigan.
Abdulmutallab:
Underwear Bomb Was A
'Blessed Weapon"
Abdulmutallab went to
trial last October, but
stopped the proceedings
on the second day by
suddenly changing his
plea to guilty on all
counts.
He called the failed
explosives he had hidden
in his underwear a
"blessed weapon to save
the lives of innocent
Muslims" and said he had
attempted to bomb
Northwest flight 253
"because of the tyranny
of the United States."
"The Koran obliges every
able Muslim to participate
in jihad and fight in the
way of Allah,"
Abdulmutallab told the
court. "I carried the
device to avenge the
killing of my Muslim
brothers and sisters...
Unfortunately, my
actions make me guilty
of a crime."
"The United States
should be warned that if
they continue to persist
and promote the
blasphemy of
Mohammad and the
prophets," said
Abdulmutallab, "the
United States should
await a great calamity
that will befall them
through the hands of the
mujahedeen soon."
"If you laugh with us
now, we will laugh with
you later on the day of
judgment," he said.
Abdulmutallab also said
he had been "greatly
inspired" by Anwar al-
Awlaki and insisted that
Awlaki, who had been
killed in a U.S. drone strike
just weeks earlier, was
still alive.
Lead prosecutor
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jonathan Tuckel said he
was "very surprised" by
Abdulmutallab's decision
to plead guilty, as was
FBI Special Agent in
Charge of the Detroit
field office Andy Arena.
"I didn't see this one
coming," Arena said.
An attorney working
with Abdulmutallab,
Anthony Chambers, told
reporters it was
Abdulmutallab's decision
to switch his plea even
though Chambers
disagreed.
"No lawyer worth his
weight in salt would
agree," Chambers said. "I
thought the evidence
was lacking... I don't think
there was any damage
to that plane."
On Christmas Day, 2009,
Abdulmutallab flew from
Ghana to Amsterdam
and boarded Northwest
flight 253, bound for
Detroit.
As the plane prepared to
land in Detroit,
Abdulmutallab spent an
extended period in the
bathroom, and then
returned to his seat,
where he covered
himself with a blanket.
When he tried to
detonate the bomb in his
underwear, passengers
heard a popping, and saw
flames spreading from
his crotch. A Dutch
passenger leapt on top
of Abdulmutallab and
flight attendants
stopped the fire with fire
extinguishers.
Abdulmutallab was found
to have white powder
packed into his
underwear, as well as a
plastic syringe to
administer a liquid that
was supposed to
activate the explosives.
Taken into custody, he
was treated for burns to
his hands, leg and
Instruments.
After the incident,
Abdulmutallab told
Customs and Border
Protection officer Marvin
Steigerwald that he
obtained the device in
Yemen and that he hid it
in his underwear. When
he was questioned later
by two FBI agents,
Abdulmutallab said he
went to Yemen to
become involved in jihad
and that he was
influenced by a man
named Abu Tarak to
undertake a suicide
operation, investigators
said.
Intelligence officials said
that while in Yemen,
Abdulmutallab also met
with Anwar al-Awlaki. In
March 2010, Awlaki
released a tape praising
Abdulmutallab. He
addressed the "American
people and said that nine
years after the 9/11
attacks, "you are still
unsafe even in the
holiest and most sacred
of days to you,
Christmas Day."
"Our brother Umar Farouk
has succeeded in
breaking through the
security systems that
have cost the U.S.
government alone over
$40 billion," said Awlaki.
U.S. officials say that
Awlaki was in electronic
communication with
Abdulmutallab repeatedly
prior to the bombing of
Northwest flight 253.
After Abdulmutallab's
arrest, his family in
Nigeria released a
statement saying they
had been so concerned
about his political
extremism that they had
reported him to Nigerian
authorities and to
"foreign security
agencies" months before
the bombing.
The statement said that
Abdulmutallab's recent
behavior was "completely
out of character and a
very recent development,
as before then, from
very early childhood,
Farouk, to the best of
parental monitoring, had
never shown any
attitude, conduct or
association that would
give concern."
A senior U.S. official told
ABC News that
Abdulmutallab's father
told the U.S. embassy in
Nigeria his son had
become radicalized and
could pose a threat to
the U.S.
Abdulmutallab Trains
with Al Qaeda
More than 100 chat room
posts traced to his e-mail
account by ABC News
show the course of his
radicalization. In high
school Abdulmutallab
described himself as
"very ambitious and
determined."
He was concerned he
would not get into college
at Caltech, Stanford or
Berkeley because of his
test scores.
"I tried the SAT. It was a
disaster!!! I didn't
practice well and I got
1200." Abdulmutallab
<a>attended college in
London</a> between
2005 and 2008.
He wrote of being lonely
and sought friends on-
line. "Can you be my
friend?" he wrote. "I get
lonely sometimes
because I have never
found a true Muslim
friend."
Later, he wrote of joining
protests against the war
in Iraq, asking "when is
lying allowed to deceive
the enemy?" Still later he
wrote of heading to
Yemen.
"The Obama
administration has been
admitting lately, that
Yemen is the new
Afghanistan," said Clarke.
"It is the new sanctuary.
The new al Qaeda base,
where people from
around the world, who
want to be trained are
sent. No longer to
Afghanistan, but to
Yemen."
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Videos released by al
Qaeda in 2010 showed
Abdulmutallab and others
in his training class in
Yemen firing weapons at
a desert camp whose
targets included the
Jewish star, the British
Union Jack and the
letters "UN." The tape
also included an apparent
martyrdom statement in
Arabic from the then 23-
year old justifying his
actions against "the
Jews and the Christians
and their agents." He
says, "the enemy is in
your lands with their
armies, the Jews and the
Christians and their
agents." He reads several
passages from the Koran
and adds, "God said if you
do not fight back, He will
punish you and replace
you."
U.S. officials believe
Abdulmutallab left
Yemen in mid-December
of 2009 on his suicide
mission.

Nawa oo. What are they waiting for to kill this boy

Dis guy needs an oyedepo-like slap to exorcise these demons from his tiny head. Hope he gets solitary confinment in this supermax