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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Arabic: عمر فاروق عبد المطلب; also known as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri; born 22 December 1986) [3] [4] popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber" or "Christmas Bomber", [5] is a Nigerian terrorist who attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from ...
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the convicted bomber. The perpetrator of the attack was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian born into a wealthy-class family. [33] [42] Abdulmutallab was raised in Kaduna, in Nigeria's Muslim-dominated north, a place he returned to on his vacations. [43] [44]
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was inspired by Al-Awlaki’s internet writings and traveled to Yemen to meet with Al-Awlaki. After he was deemed to be a suitable suicide bomber, Abdulmutallab was given two weeks of weapons training. He was then taught to use the bomb, which was sewed into his underwear.
His son, [4] Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Christmas bomber) attempted to detonate plastic explosives aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009 and is currently serving four life term sentences plus 50 years without parole at ADX Florence, a supermax federal prison in the United States.
On December 25, 2009, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (whose mother is from Yemen) [6] allegedly tried to set off a suicide bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253.By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for ...
In 2009, on Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear. In 2012, the attempted hijacking of Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 was stopped when cabin crew placed a trolley in-front of the cockpit door and asked passengers for help.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab (born 1986), the "Underwear Bomber", a Nigerian convicted terrorist This page was last edited on 31 December 2020, at 14:25 (UTC ...
The Sunday Times established that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 suspected bomber who was arrested on Christmas Day 2009, attended lectures by al-Awlaki at the university in 2005.