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The indictment said a bomb was concealed in Abdulmutallab's clothing and was designed to allow him to detonate it at a time of his choosing.

On Christmas Day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, failed to set off his bomb properly on a Detroit-bound passenger jet.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , 23, has been charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight with almost 300 people on board .

Abdulmutallab was acting as his own lawyer, but relying on a court-appointed standby attorney to handle much of the courtroom work.

The president said information about Abdulmutallab - including a warning from the suspect's father - was not handled properly.

The attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, failed only because the explosives sewn into his underpants did not detonate fully.

This was even before Mr Abdulmutallab's father told the US embassy in Nigeria on November 19 of his concerns about his son.

As a boy, Mr. Abdulmutallab attended the British International School in Lome, Togo.

Abdulmutallab was educated in Togo before studying engineering at University College, London and had lived outside Nigeria for some time.

THE charred underpants of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tell the story of a terrorist attack averted only by luck.

Wittes says that like other accused terrorists, Abdulmutallab sees the courtroom as a propaganda tool.

After graduating from a prominent London university that June, however, Mr. Abdulmutallab soon began showing signs of trouble.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was overpowered by fellow passengers after he attempted to detonate explosives on the plane, causing a fire.

Experts doubted that Abdulmutallab's intended target was Detroit, but rather causing an explosion over any heavily populated U. S. city.

In 2009 a Nigerian citizen who had studied at a British university, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to blow up a U. S. -bound flight.

Like many children from rich Nigerian homes, Abdulmutallab spent his formative years abroad.

Some reported seeing Abdulmutallab's trouser leg and the inner wall of the aircraft on fire.

Instead, Mr Abdulmutallab was read his legal rights and brought before a US court.

But we can be sure the al-Qaeda leader shares the view that Mr Abdulmutallab should have received harsher treatment.

Yemen also plays a part in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

On Christmas Day last year a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to ignite a hidden bomb as his plane was landing in Detroit.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula skyrocketed to fame late last year with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed Christmas Day attack.

Mr. Abdulmutallab recently told his parents he wanted to go to Yemen to study Arabic, Ms. Akunyili said.