{UAH} Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

The Christmas Day of 2009 would have been a tragic one for the Americans if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been a little bit cleaner. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber" is a Nigerian national who attempted to set off a bomb on a plane traveling from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan, the United States of America on the 25th of December 2009. Today's History Files will reveal how Farouk's dirtiness saved the lives of 289 people on board in the plane.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the youngest son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a wealthy Nigerian banker and a businessman from Kastina state who was described by The Times as one of the richest men in Africa. His father is a former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria and former Nigerian Federal Commissioner for Economic Development.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from University College London in 2008 before joining the al-Qaeda, a terrorist group. As a teenager, Farouk was so devoted to Islam that he openly condemned his father's banking profession as "immoral"and "un-Islamic" for charging interests, urging him to quit.

In 2009, Farouk was directed to Yemen for al-Qaeda training by one of the members named Anwar al-Awlaki. After disowning his father in October that year via a text message, he embarked on his first mission; to blow up an airliner conveying 289 people. He successfully smuggled the bomb into the plane and was even able to light the bomb while on the plane.

Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the rest of the passengers and crews, the bomb failed to explode, causing minor burns to the would-be bomber and sparing his fellow passengers.

According to a US official, the underwear bomb failed to explode because Farouk had been wearing his explosive-laden underwear for more than three weeks and the dirt soiled the explosives. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now 32, pleaded guilty to all 8 count charges including conspiracy to commit terrorism. In 2012, the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced Farouk to life imprisonment for four counts and additional 50 years for the remaining counts. He's currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX.

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