(CBS/AP) DETROIT - A young Nigerian on a terrorist mission for al Qaeda prayed, washed and put on perfume moments before trying to detonate a bomb in his underwear to bring down an international jetliner on Christmas 2009, a prosecutor told jurors as the man's trial opened Tuesday.

Virtually everyone aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 had holiday plans, but Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab believed his calling was martyrdom, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel said.

In the plane's bathroom, "he was engaging in rituals. He was preparing to die and enter heaven," Tukel said. "He purified himself. He washed. He brushed his teeth. He put on perfume. He was praying and perfuming himself to get ready to die."

After returning to his seat, Abdulmutallab pushed a syringe plunger into the chemical bomb in his underwear, an action that produced a "pop," the prosecutor told jurors.

The bomb didn't work as planned but Abdulmutallab was engulfed in flames, said Tukel, who displayed the flight's seating chart on a screen to show jurors where things happened on the plane.



The day's first and only witness, passenger Mike Zantow of Madison, Wis., said Abdulmutallab went to the bathroom for 10 to 15 minutes, then returned and put a blanket over himself. He heard the "pop" and said another passenger remarked, "Hey, dude, your pants are on fire."

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My thought is this. . .why didn't the bomb squad initially. . .take this piece of trash to a remote runway and deactivate his underwear with him in them?

Another muslim wack-job who wants to be judged by islamic law, which of course condones the mass murder of "infidels". I think the trial should be moved to Montana or Wyoming where he can get a taste of real American justice, including the rope part.

Yes he has succeeded.

He will enjoy his virgins in American jail for life

hausa people and their stupid believe

wait till he gets a whole new butt-hole courtesy of those sex-starved ruff-riding nigghas while getting carved up by red-necks