Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (born December 22, 1986 in Lagos , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian Islamist terrorist who tried on December 25, 2009 to use explosives in his underwear to blow up an Airbus A330-300 aircraft , known as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was en route from Amsterdam to Detroit in the USA . Because of his approach, he became known as the underpants bomber .
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, also known as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri , lived in London , where he studied mechanical engineering at University College between 2005 and 2008 . At University College he was also President of the Student Union Islamic Society from 2006 to 2007. According to information from American secret services, Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab is said to have been trained by al-Qaeda for the attack on the plane north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa for several months .
He is the son of the former Nigerian minister and bank chief Alhaji Umaru Mutallab . According to information from the BBC, he had already warned the US embassy in the Nigerian capital Abuja a few weeks before the attack that his son had become radicalized. A US official confirmed that the embassy had forwarded the information to Washington, whereupon Abdulmutallab was then placed on a watch list of around 500,000 potential terrorists and suspected terrorist sympathizers. Since the information available was insufficient for the American security authorities, his name was not placed on the no-fly list ( watchlist ).
His Miranda right to refuse to give evidence was suspended for 48 hours due to the public safety exemption in order to be able to find out the location of possible further bombs.
At his first court hearing in Detroit on January 8, 2010, the public defender Abdulmutallabs stated that her client was pleading not guilty "at this point in time". The 23-year-old had to answer six counts, including attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. The trial against him, in which he pleaded guilty on all charges, began on October 11, 2011. On February 16, 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with no early release. He is in the ADX Florence maximum security prison .
Web links
- Scott Shane : Inside Al Qaeda's Plot to Blow Up an American Airliner. In: New York Times, February 22, 2017.
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- ↑ Josh Meyer and Peter Nicholas: Obama admits 'systemic failure' in airliner attack. In: Los Angeles Times . December 29, 2009. 1 . Queryed on December 29, 2009.
- ↑ United States v. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (PDF; 235 kB), quoted from the Huffington Post , accessed on December 26, 2009.
- ↑ Police search London flat in US plane attack inquiry , BBC News, December 26, 2009
- ↑ UCLU response to attempted act of terrorism ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , UCLU statement dated January 4, 2010
- ↑ Investigators: Northwest Bomb Plot Planned by al Qaeda in Yemen , ABC News, December 26, 2009.
- ↑ Father alerted US about Nigerian plane bomb suspect , BBC News, December 27, 2009
- ↑ Prevented Terrorist Attack: Al-Qaeda leaders reportedly instructed Detroit assassins , Die Zeit, December 27, 2009
- ↑ Marc Pitzke: Arrested Jochar Zarnajew: Witness to his own prosecution. In: Spiegel Online . April 20, 2013, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Underwear bomber pleads guilty. In: Zeit Online from October 12, 2011
- ↑ Underwear bomber Abdulmutallab sentenced to life In: BBC News of February 16, 2012
- ↑ http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Umar&Middle=&LastName=abdulmutallab&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=57&y=6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mutallab, Umar Abdul; al-Nigeri, Omar Farooq |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Islamist terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lagos , Nigeria |