The humorous part is that during his sentence Umar argues ” a life time sentence in prison is cruel and unusual punishment, as well as unconstitutional.” So first the man himself is going to bomb a aircraft with over 200 people, and potentially would of killed them is calling the punishment cruel, and were being unconstitutional for saving another future attack from Al Qaeda? Well if this isn’t screwed up then what is, huh. 

This man is 25 years old, before had pleaded not guilty to eight charges against him, which include attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction. Theres cruelness in just mentioning to use a weapon of mass destruction on others, just because your what trying to be a constitutional man and divine your own thought? 

So you can all decide for yourselves whether this sentence was right or not. I think there should be no trials for these types of matters, because if its caught on tape, with over 100 witnesses on the plane theres no need to hire lawyers, and waste time, just slam down the hammer, and sentence him to life time!

A man carrying a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day 2009 was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, pleaded guilty last October of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.

Shortly before he was sentenced in federal court in Detroit, held a life sentence would be “cruel and unusual punishment” and unconstitutional.

The judge rejected his argument.

U.S. officials say the terrorist group Al Qaeda helped plot the attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from the Netherlands to Detroit.

Three people, including the perpetrator injured. The Nigerian man was taken into custody.

The plane was carrying 289 people.

A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a flight to Detroit with explosives sewn into his underwear has come to a court in Detroit for trial.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, originally scheduled to defend himself, but his public defender instead delivered an opening statement.

Abdulmutallab faces a series of charges, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Skimmer pipe repair

If convicted, could face a life sentence.

The U.S. government says Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit that landed in the Christmas 2009.

The pump, however, did not work and suffered severe burns in its place.

As the trial got underway, pending attorney Anthony Chambers Abdulmutallab requested the prohibition of the word “bomb” to the closing arguments.

Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds rejected the request, saying it “makes no sense.”
“The bus driver”

During jury selection last week Mr. Abdulmutallab alternately questioned prospective jurors himself or sat in silence as the defense attorney Anthony Salas spoke to others.
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The aim of the court is to get the best representation of what one can claim in the way [Abdulmutallab] was wrongly convicted “
End quote attorney David Steingold Detroit

The 24-year-old is officially representing himself after firing a team of four lawyers appointed by the Federal Defender Office in Detroit last year.

Mr. Chambers is the “standby counsel” appointed by a federal judge.

He told the Associated Press news agency he had been authorized by Mr. Abdulmutallab to deliver the opening statement.

Mr. Chambers said his client was “driving the bus” in the last decisions made in the courtroom.

“His self-representation certainly makes it more difficult strategically. But we are doing the best we can with what we have to work.”

Lloyd Meyer, a former prosecutor against terrorism in the U.S. justice department, told the AP Abdulmutallab giving his own opening statement would have been disastrous for the defense.

“He stood before a jury and said:” I wanted to kill my friends and here’s why, ‘”said Meyer.

The former student outbursts in the courtroom have become common.

Last week, shouted “Anwar is alive” during jury selection, in an apparent reference to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda recruiter killed in a drone attack in September.

During a pretrial hearing, Abdulmutallab made ​​similar statements about Osama Bin Laden after his death known.

“The goal of the court is to get the best representation of what one can claim in the way [Abdulmutallab] was wrongly convicted or forced to assume a responsibility that could not handle,” said David Steingold, a lawyer in Detroit defense.

interview allowed

Abdulmutallab tried to get several pieces of information banned from appearing at trial, including statements he made while he was being treated for burns in hospital.

He argued that the interview should be suppressed because he was not read his rights before being interrogated by the FBI, including the right to remain silent.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, presiding over the case, denied the request, citing public safety in the hours immediately after the attempt.

Judge Edmunds also allow jurors to see a video recorded by the martyrdom Abdulmutallab before the attack, but will not allow jurors to see a video clip of al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden was greeted as a hero.

As a member of the jury pool was reduced last week, Mr. Chambers was ultimately satisfied with the composition of the jury.

The final jury has only two African-Americans out of 12 total.

“Obviously, I’m not satisfied with the pool,” Salas said after jury selection last week. “By appearance, does not represent the community.”

Father of Mr. Abdulmutallab, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, an influential banker is well connected in Nigerian politics, said he had approached officials of the U.S. Embassy and the Nigerian authorities to warn them about their son in 2009. News Journal

Osama own brother-in-law, Zakaria al-hardness, expressed it in an interview published on Sunday (2/12/2012).

Al Qaeda’s leader with three wives and nine children when it shot dead on May 2 last year.Zakaria al-hardness, said the three wives and nine children of Osama’s been arrested in a three-bedroom flat in the capital, Islamabad, Pakistan. Flat is guarded by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).

Zakaria al-hardness, said he recently reunited with his sister, the wife of Osama fifth coming from Yemen, the Charity (29 years), who was shot in the knee in an attack the U.S. Navy Seal.

Zakaria al-hardness says, Osama did not want the children and grandchildren to follow the path of terrorism like him. According to the hardness, the world’s most wanted man had told his children to “not follow him in the way of jihad”.

“He told his own children and grandchildren,” Go to Europe and America, and get a good education, ‘”said hardness told The Sunday Times.

Osama was found in a villa in the town of Abbottabad military last year, about 48 kilometers from Islamabad. Hiding location adjacent to a military college and the capital of Pakistan raised suspicions that he had help from Pakistani intelligence agencies.

A number of photographs, which are considered as the first photographs of the children who lived in hideout complex, showing two sons and a daughter and two grandsons and a granddaughter, Osama. They were all dressed up. The two girls in the photo pink dress, and one of them wearing the hijab.

Zakaria al-hardness said, since arriving in Pakistan from Yemen in November and he has been allowed to see her sister several times to secure their release. But he added, the children were still traumatized by the commando raid that killed their father.

“The children saw their father killed and they need a caring environment, not a prison, no matter what you think about their father and what he has done,” said hardness.

According to the hardness, Amal and the wife of another Osama, Khairiah and Siham Sabar, both from Saudi Arabia, has launched a hunger strike in protest at their detention.”Those kids will not eat, because they are too traumatized,” said hardness. ”They have a heater for winter and limited access to television. However, they almost never see the sun in nine months. They feel as if they were screaming in the dark.”

The wife has interviewed Osama is a CIA agent. However, according to Pakistani sources, they are not cooperative.

A commission established to investigate the existence of terror leader in Abbottabad has concluded its investigation, and ordered his wife and children were free to go.

According to a senior security official, Pakistan reiterated Sunday that the country is ready to release Osama bin Laden families, and their return to Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The senior official told The Daily Telegraph that there are no barriers for the wife who came from Arabia and Yemen-were to be released. ”They are with us now and live a comfortable life,” he said. ”The case is waiting for their respective countries to bring them back.”

Osama bin Laden, leader of the “base” of the late urges his sons and Ahvazh to “study and live in peace” in the “Europe or the United States,” according to what he said Zakaria Alsaddah who was his sister, the wife of the Fifth of bin Laden, told the “Sunday Times” British.

The brother of one of the wives of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that the latter had wanted to go to his children and grandchildren to the west of the study, and live a quiet life away from the path of jihad.

In an interview with the Sunday Times of Sunday Alsaddah Zakaria explained that his sister was the wife of Yemen hopes the fifth leader of al Qaeda, “he said to his sons and his grandchildren: just go to Europe or to the United States and received a good education.”

He added that bin Laden was insisting that “the sons do not follow the path of jihad as he did” and he would say to them, “You study and live in peace and do what I do or what I did.”

The al Qaeda leader killed in an attack by U.S. commandos on the group home that has been in hiding for years in the town of Abbottabad, north-west Pakistan.

He smelting bin Laden in this talk that the wives of bin Laden and his sons three nine who were with him in the house at the time the attack for months, living in an apartment of three rooms with no windows in Islamabad under the constant surveillance of the intelligence agencies of Pakistan.

The Sunday Times published this talk with a picture of six of the sons of bin Laden taken Alsaddah Zakaria, who said he was allowed to see them several times since November last in the presence of guards.

He explained that these sons who “suffer from shock” because of the attack the U.S. “in need of an environment other than the prison environment, whatever our idea about their father or what to do.” For the hopes that his sister was hit during the attack, said, “did not have any role in what he did to her husband and should not be penalized for that.”

He stressed that the hopes and the other wives of bin Laden Badan a hunger strike.

The Commission of Pakistan in charge of the investigation in the presence of bin Laden in Pakistan and the circumstances of the attack may have prevented the U.S. last September all of you want to question him from leaving the country.

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The above frontman of all-embracing agitator alignment Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, asked his accouchement to not chase in his footsteps as a terrorist, but became a abstruse man with an apprenticeship in the United States (U.S.) or Europe.

Osama’s wishes, appear in his will to Zakaria al-hardness, brother-in-law of Osama’s fifth wife, told the Sunday Times, Sunday (12/02/2012).

“She told the accouchement and grandchildren, go to Europe and America in adjustment to get a acceptable education,” said the acerbity in The Sunday Times, as quoted from Dailymail.

However, the adversity seems to Osama’s endure ambition appear true, the commodity three of the 5 wives, nine accouchement are aswell in aegis with the bouncer in Pakistan capital, Islamabad.

According to the hardness, the ninth son Osama, is still traumatized by the adventure his father’s assassination by aristocratic U.S. forces, years ago, in an ambuscade in the city-limits of Abottabad, Pakistan.

Hardness, which is a journalism apprentice 24-year-old, appear that Osama ninth adolescent would not eat and did not see sunlight for nine months.

“They never accept a accustomed life. They do not apperceive how it feels to see the sun and to airing about the garden. I was abashed to see them,” he said.

As we know, Osama was dead in a U.S. Army Special Armament operations in Abottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011. Osama aswell aggregate a amount of humans dead in the battery kepercayaanya.

Osama bin Laden was dead in a abode in Abottabad, not far from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. (Dailymail)

International said in November that famine threatens 250 thousand Somalis (French – Archive)

The United Nations announced today that the agricultural crop is unusually good and heavy amounts of rain, in addition to food aid distributed by relief organizations, eliminated famine in Somalia, although the situation remained fragile, with a possibility to escalate.

The United Nations said that the crop was twice the size of crops throughout the past seventeen years, and this helped to lower the prices of food, although the mortality rate in southern Somalia is among the highest in the world.

However, the United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia, Mark Bowden emphasized that “gains remain fragile and will turn to the contrary, without the continued support.”

Warning of Famine
The United Nations announced last July for the existence of a famine in the two regions of southern Somalia, and then extended the warning of famine in the September / September to include six regions of eight.

The organization said that initially 750 thousand Somalis are at risk of imminent death from hunger, and then reduced the figure to 250 thousand last November.

After six months of the announcement of the Somali famine areas, there were four million are in need of assistance, the United Nations said that this number is now reduced to two and thirty-four thousand.

In spite of that the provision of assistance to some 180 thousand people living in camps in the capital Mogadishu has improved the situation but the fighting in the south and center of the country disrupted the arrival of food aid to most affected areas.

Government forces are battling al-Shabab Mujahideen fighters linked to al Qaeda five years ago, despite the entry of Kenyan and Ethiopian troops to Somalia last year to participate in the battles against the movement.

Red Cross
And expelled youth movement last Monday the International Committee of the Red Cross – which is among the few international agencies that distribute food in areas under the control of young people – the international organization is accused of distributing expired foods on women
And children.

And crossed the International Committee of the Red Cross regrets the decision that halted the program distributed food to 1.2 million in the period from June to December / December 2011.

The Committee noted that 6% of the food supplies were spoiled withdrawn or destroyed by the youth.

The Director-General of the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Jose Graziano da Silva, “The crisis is not over and will not be deducted unless rainfall and consistently coordinated action over a long period to improve the speed of adaptation linked to population and development aid.”
 

Source: Reuters

Americans love a happy ending in life and in the news, even if it is good only for a week end. Here I speak from personal experience since for each decades most significant era of international news, from the first ten in September and the beginning of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq was fortunate “right” to be an editor and producer for a cable news networks leading the United States, LA. Me. C News. for the same job I found myself in the pit of Saddam Hussein in December 2003 about two hours after his capture by the Americans.
 
Even then, the joy was great and so was the total disregard of news from the American media about the next day. Missing information and missing-depth questioning about the future and feelings of the people of the Middle East region with Western perception spree; feelings that do not always correspond to the American agenda and usually represent our region omen furious.
 
 
But to focus the issue and make a point, not like the story of Saddam and the perception of American service coverage. Early December 2003 I was sent to Baghdad from session of eight weeks. U.S. military operation in Iraq began March recall of that year. In December, for LA.At me. CM and other U.S. networks, the war was all “over”. Iraqi army collapsed after three weeks of fighting, or rather, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that war was not really there. Iraqis had a chance to begin with, let alone equipment, deal with the U.S. Army (what no one dared to say news reports).
 
President Bush has landed on an aircraft carrier and announced S”hmsima completed “, the pilots and the cheers of the spectators Americans who bought the story of the arsenal of mass destruction that supposedly Saddam was armed with and used as a pretext for war.Cause we in the American media helped sell.
 
Where was the legendary nuclear pool?
Drunk than it was then a decisive victory, we in the American media has not really started asking questions. However the air already felt some discomfort, caused by the fact that none of the American divisions occupying camped throughout Mesopotamia could not find the same legendary nuclear repository.
 
Very fast at the beginning of my stay in Iraq in 2003 it was clear that the war H”motzlht “not going so well. Local police stations and cafes began to explode on a daily basis throughout Iraq, and it was obvious the Iraqi people not so happy with foreign GIs walking around in his back yard and tell him what to do. But in America they were all convinced that the Iraqis are grateful for and in the media want to believe “Operation free Iraq” is a huge success.
 
Morning cold end of December 2003 was sent to a reporter, a private security (that was no longer possible to go without one) and a camera crew filming a story about the rise in support of Shiite Iran Iraq border.As it happened, the city of Tikrit, where Saddam was found hiding in the same day is a half-hour from the border. When the announcement came out that Saddam was captured raced toward Tikrit like crazy.
 
Between the attacks have already started across the country and not interested so the American media, and weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and therefore is not of interest to anyone – the only thing that interested her about and to the media from the end of the military operation in Iraq was: Where Damn Saddam?
 
When we as a team a little town called Adawar near Tikrit, where Saddam was hiding in a hole under the ground, was about to place a complete American divisions. Proud soldiers and colonels were smug little microphones in front of the media and told again and again how WE GOT HIM.

“Apache helicopter and Bradley vehicles also use this projectile in the gun,” he said. Activists also noted that 62.7 percent of the population of Afghanistan have been targeted by a dangerous radioactive ammunition. Miraki explained that a group of researchers collected urine samples from the population of Afghanistan and found uranium isotopes in their urine which was about 300 percent to 2000 percent higher than normal levels. He further said that many people in Afghanistan have been identified with a strange disease that is different. Diseases such as skin disease, sudden death, spontaneous abortion among women as well as permanent disability and cancer.

He also said the U.S. used depleted uranium weapons, means the country is against international law and U.S. law itself. Meanwhile, U.S. officials criticized Miraki and puppet President Hamid Karzai not to investigate crimes committed by the U.S. government. We are continuing reports (us) to the U.S. State Department three years ago and from U.S. officials we only get lip service. The Afghan government is the same, because it has no control, they just installed a regime, “he said.

Most are very precise attacks against al-Qaeda and their allies. We give great care, as we perform. You are targeting the peoplewho are on the list of active terrorists who seek to harm Americans hit U.S. installations, bases and so forth, ”wrote one of the questions the president.

Raids in the tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan that are not under the control of the Pakistani government, defended Obamaas the best solution. ”If we wanted to get otherwise, it would probably be much more intrusive military action,” he noted.

Although raids in Pakistan have launched President George Bush the younger, the number after the arrival of Barack Obama in theWhite House several times increased. The year before there were at least one hundred and first Last year, however, their numberdropped to 64 reported, said AFP.

Attacks in Yemen and
Without it was officially acknowledged, the American drones attacking machines in Yemen, which the CIA after President AliAbdullah weaning Salih considered one of the most dangerous bastions of Islamic radicals.

Aircraft attacked during the last four nights in the south. According to the agency killed at least 11 people. One of the local tribal leaders told Reuters that at least four dead were local leaders of Al Qaeda.