Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man who tried to set his bomb-laced underwear on fire on Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 pleaded guilty to all charges.
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| The Underwear Bomber plead guilty to sporting the above underwear on a U.S. Flight and then igniting them |
Abdulmutallab stated that he was pleading guilty to U.S. law, not the laws of the Qur'an.
On Tuesday, day one of the trial, one witness, Michael Zantow, told the court he was flying to Wisconsin to visit his mother from the Middle East where he worked as a U.S. Air Force contractor.
Zantow was sitting in the row behind Abdulmutallab when he noticed the man cover himself with a blanket minutes before hearing a loud pop. Zantow said seconds passed before a man sitting next to Abdulmutallab yelled: "Hey dude, your pants are on fire!"
In March 2011, new details emerged about the terrorism plot revealed that the "underwear bomber" wanted to strike the skies above Chicago or Houston, according to the Associated Press. However, tickets were too expensive so he chose Detroit, the cheaper option.
The infamous 'Underwear Bomber' case has effected all Americans. Abdulmutallab inspired several of the Department of Homeland Security and TSA policies most Americans have come to love to hate.
That's right, the terrorist who tried to ignite his own "junk" mid-flight in 2009 is responsible for the TSA's introduction of the highly controversial full-body scanners that took vivid snapshots of all of our junk.
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