Abdulmutallab is from Katsina State. His father is a high profile businessman and wealthy banker. He was former Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. Umar is the youngest child in a family of 16. He schooled in London.
He was age 23 when he was arrested and he confessed to and was convicted of attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while onboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day, 2009..…
Abdulmutallab was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, near Florence, Colorado.
When he committed the heinous crime, some people screamed, “the Northerners and their extremist’s tendencies”….as if suggesting that crime has Northern color.
