Underwear bomber, Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab who
tried to blow up Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life imprisonment without option of parole.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Don’t Sentence me to Life, Abdulmutallab Pleads
Abdulmutallab, 25, pleaded guilty in a Federal Court
in October 2011 of trying to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear as
part of a plot orchestrated by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula.
He is due to be sentenced on Thursday in Detroit and
faces up to life in prison for the bombing attempt aboard a Northwest
Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit that had 289 people on board.
His lawyer Anthony Chambers argued that the mandatory
life sentence required under US law for some of the crimes he admitted
to committing was unconstitutional, particularly because no one was
seriously hurt during the bombing attempt.
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