#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/02/2010 #5

US media have published photos of the singed underwear that a Nigerian terror suspect allegedly wore to hide explosives in, as investigators in the Yemen attempt to piece together his movements and contacts. The pictures provided by the FBI and obtained by ABC News show a packet of powder explosives that had been sewn into the crotch of the underpants.

I’m surprised the #TSA still lets people wear underwear on airplanes. Underwear Bomber #BombingUnderwearBomber #Bombing2011NorthwestFlight253 MjL

#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/17/2012 #3

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this file booking photograph released by the U.S. Marshals Service December 28th, 2009. Abdulmutallab, the 25-year-old Nigerian student al-Qaida underwear bomber, is to be sentenced February 16th, 2012 in U.S. District Court in Detroit. He is facing a mandatory life prison sentence for attempting to detonate a bomb concealed in his underwear on a plane bound for Detroit on December 25th, 2009.

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/12/2021 #14

In 2011, a Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab defiantly told a federal judge in Detroit that he had acted in retaliation for the killing of Muslims worldwide. #BombingUnderwearBomber #Bombing2011NorthwestFlight253 Unlike the TSA handling of the “Shoe Bomber”, we aren’t required to remove our underwear during airport screening.

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/25/2021 #20

In 2009, passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to set off explosives in his underwear. (Abdulmutallab later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.) Underwear Bomber #UnderwearBomber #Bombing2011NorthwestFlight253

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/16/2022 #14

In 2012, a federal judge in Detroit ordered life in prison for “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who had tried to blow up a packed Northwest jetliner. #BombingUnderwearBomber #Bombing2011NorthwestFlight253 At the time I assumed the TSA would start underwear inspections.

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