2010, a popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad
Gumi, was arrested and detained for over six months by the
Saudi Arabian government for allegedly relating with Nigerian
underwear bomber and terrorist, Farouk Abdumutallab.
SaharaReporters gathered that Gumi was arrested in February
2010 in Mecca on the request of the United States'
government for exchanging e-mails with Abdulmutallab.
It was learnt that the Islamic cleric who is currently
advocating for bandits in Nigeria to be granted amnesty and
not called criminals after meeting them was arrested after the
US security browsed through
Abdulmutallab’s e-mail and found out that he corresponded
with him shortly before he attempted to bomb a plane on
December 25, 2009 in the US.
Gumi was first taken to Jeddah but was returned to Mecca
and put under house arrest for many months before the
intervention of the Nigerian government.
Abdulmutallab, then 23, had unsuccessfully tried to denote a
bomb wired to his underwear aboard a Northwest Airlines
flight from Amsterdam that was about landing in Detriot,
Michigan with 289 people on board.
The device failed, but the terrorist became enveloped in a
fireball that spread to the wall and carpeting of the plane.
Four passengers quickly restrained him and helped put out the
fire, witnesses said, and he was escorted up to the first-class
section of the plane and taken into custody by US authorities
when it landed.
Abdulmutallab later acknowledged in a courtroom statement
that he had travelled to Yemen and was "greatly inspired" to
participate in such a plot by US-born militant cleric, Anwar al-
Awlaki, who was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen in
September.
US officials later said the terror group - al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula had helped foment the failed attack.
"I carried with me an explosive device to avenge the killing of
innocent Muslims," AbdulMutallab said in the statement,
adding that the failed plot was in retaliation for "US tyranny
and oppression of Muslims."
He was sentenced to four life terms plus 50 years without
parole on February 16, 2012.
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Good.
See if you find anything on another terrorist occupying Aso Rock?

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This man na terrorist ooo