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2012-02-17 Home Front: WoT
Underwear bomber given 4 life sentences
Detroit-- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the privileged student from an affluent Nigerian family who became known as the "underwear bomber" received four life sentences Thursday, the maximum penalty for trying to kill almost 300 people aboard a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009.
One feels for the heartache of his father, who reported his son to the nearest American embassy. This sentence is not a kindness, given that the Pantibomber's lap will never be unburnt.
"This court has no ability to control his motivation, which appears to be unchanged," said U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, before issuing the sentence to a packed courtroom in downtown Detroit. "I can control his opportunity to act on those intentions." The convict had two outbursts following the FBI video of the mock bomb exploding, shown in court today.

"God is great!" he shouted. He is expected to be sent to Supermax, the Alcatraz "القطرس " of the Rockies, whose inmates include Unabomber and University of Michigan graduate Ted Kaczynski and Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, a Lapeer Michigan native.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [27 views ]  Top

#1 NOT-FRUIT-OF-THE-LOOM [or was it?] ...

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "I WAS BRAINWASHED LIKE A ROBOT", MUSAB IN [India] SUPREME COURT APPEAL FOR LIFE TERM, as opposed in being executed.

"Brainwashed" > HMMMM, HMMMMMM ....

As for Kaczynski + Nichols, *** cough *** cough **** cough *** ... ...D *** NGED VALENTINE'S DAY STRAWBERRY-GLAZED HEART DONUT!

Wid Sprinkles.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-17 01:47||   2012-02-17 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [India] ANJEM CHOUDARY COMING TO DELHI FOR SHARIA LAW [mass rally/protest].

versus

* SAME > THE UNITED STATES OF INDIA?

Intehwesting scenario, but I don't think the Hindus as a class will go for it at all while some Muslims will have doubts.

* SAME > CHINA GIVEN EVIDENCE [by India] OF ITS AID TO NORTHEAST [India] INSURGENTS.

Indjuh fears presently differentiated Insurgent/Radicalist-Separatist factions will one day unify as called for by China.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-17 02:12||   2012-02-17 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3 In this case, I am actually of mixed minds as to whether he should go to ADX Florence, for two reasons.

The first being that he is just a "useful idiot" of others. He has no great value as a leader, nor does he particularly inspire others to do what he did. The second is that his father tried hard to prevent him from doing a terrorist act, by notifying the CIA of his intentions before he returned to the US.

However, he did try to slaughter a plane full of innocent people.

The other reason is that ADX Florence is too "good" for him. If you look at the unofficial list of its current inmates, they are really 'major league'. Not only for what they did, but the *continuing* threat they represent.

ADX Florence, above all else, is for people that the US government is truly 'angry' with. People that we want to make an example of.

The US has plenty of supermax prisons, any of which would be just fine for this loser.
Posted by Anonymoose 2012-02-17 08:34||   2012-02-17 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "You, and your mutilated junk, off to ADX Florence now..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2012-02-17 17:23||   2012-02-17 17:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Have fun, Umar...
Posted by tu3031 2012-02-17 17:40||   2012-02-17 17:40|| Front Page Top

#6 I think Bloomer Bomber has a better sound. He did a Napolean and blew his bone apart.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2012-02-17 17:46||   2012-02-17 17:46|| Front Page Top

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