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‘Underwear Bomber’ Sentenced To Life In Prison | Umar Faroul AbdulMutallab, 25, who tried to bring down a Christmas Day 2009 flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was sentenced to life in prison today. AbdulMutallab, who pleaded guilty in October to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, argued that a life sentence, as the prosecutors had requested, would be “cruel and unusual punishment.” On December 25, 2009, he attempted to ignite a bomb hidden in his underwear shortly before the plane landed in Detroit. Passengers and crew members subdued him after the device lit him on fire.
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