Does this name ring a bell? He was sentenced Thursday 16/02/2012 to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on Christmas 2009 by a US District judge in Michigan. The sentencing ended a trial that started in 2010 after the so-called “underwear bomber” tried to ignite a bomb hidden in his underwear 17 minutes before the Delta flight carrying 300 from Amsterdam was scheduled to land.
The judge applied the maximum sentence after dismissing two motions filed by Umar Farouk's lawyer in the last 24 hours. In her sentencing, the judge restated prosecutors’ argument that Umar Farouk’s action had political and religious undertones. She said the intention was to inflict maximum damage on US citizens using weapons of mass destruction which Umar Farouk considered a "blessed weapon" by Allah.
More also, the judge observed that Umar Farouk had shown no remorse for his actions and thus still posed a significant threat to the US and was still interested in fighting a jihad against Americans.
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