By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The young man who will be forever known as the “Underwear Bomber” caught a little bit of break. The Detroit News reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who admitted trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day of 2009, was transferred Tuesday to a federal prison complex…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– In a federal courtroom in downtown Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man better known as the “Underwear Bomber”, was sentenced Thursday afternoon to life in prison for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009. Rail thin and clad in a white t-shirt and beige…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — If it hadn’t have been so potentially deadly and scary, Nigerian terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Christmas day Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in 2009 might have made a good Saturday Night Live skit. Witness Michael Zantow, who was flying to Wisconsin to visit his ailing mom from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the “underwear bomber” isn’t going down without a fight — despite the overwhelming evidence against him. The Detroit News reports that Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is asking a federal judge to change his trial to another state, saying he can’t get a fair trial in Michigan because…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Why Detroit? The Associated Press reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the “underwear bomber”, thought about blowing up a plane above Houston or Chicago on Christmas day in 2009, but the ticket to Detroit was cheaper. The AP reported that he considered Houston, where he had gone to school….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The infamous underwear bomber who tried blowing up a plane arriving in Detroit on Christmas day last year is due in court Monday, the Associated Press reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria is expected to appear before U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in downtown Detroit, AP reported. She’s expected to set…
The U.S. is expanding the “no fly list” in response to the attempted bombing on Christmas Day to improve security. The downside is there’s likely to be a growing number of nightmare stories like the one Rahinah Ibrahim experienced. Unfortunately, there’s too many already. By Mike McIntire New York Times Rahinah Ibrahim, a Stanford University…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In a world of Jihad Janes and underwear bombers, where it’s becoming more difficult to figure out who the enemy might be, the Obama administration is taking a different tact when screening passengers from inbound U.S. International flights. The Washington Post reports the U.S. is “abandoning its policy of…
