Remember this a$$hole?
Calling it a “just punishment,”
a federal judge ordered life in prison Thursday for a Nigerian man who turned
away from a privileged life and tried to blow up an international jetliner with
nearly 300 people during a suicide mission for al-Qaida.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was
the same defiant man who four months ago pleaded guilty to all charges related
to the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a bomb in
his underwear on Christmas 2009. He seemed to relish his mandatory sentence and
defended his actions as rooted in the Muslim holy book, the Quran.
Earlier, four passengers and a
crew member aboard Flight 253 told U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds that the
event forever changed their lives. Abdulmutallab looked disinterested during
their remarks — he rarely looked up while seated just a few feet away, wearing
a white skull cap and an oversized prison T-shirt.
Abdulmutallab “has never
expressed doubt or regret or remorse about his mission,” Edmunds said. “In
contrast, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission.”
Life in prison is a “just
punishment for what he has done,” the judge said. “The defendant poses a
significant ongoing threat to the safety of American citizens everywhere.”
Abdulmutallab, a 25-year-old
who was educated in Europe and is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, told
the government that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a
radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures.
Good riddance, not only was he stupid enough to attempt to blow
up an airplane with a bomb in his draws, he couldn’t even detonate it right.
Prison is the only place for this guy…SMDH
Source >>> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/underwear_bomber_sentenced_to_life_tUpO7AvUqeC0hZrrjOnhAJ
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