Tags: Criminal.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Arabic: عمر فاروق عبد المطلب ; also known as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri; born December 22 1986 in Lagos Nigeria) popularly referred to as the Underwear Bomber is a Nigerian man who at the age of 23 confessed to and was convicted of attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit Michigan on Christmas Day 2009.Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed to have organized the attack with Abdulmutallab; they said they supplied him with the bomb and trained him.
