Convicted Nigerian terrorist, Abdulmutallab sues the US

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian convicted for attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, has filed a lawsuit with a Colorado federal court claiming his constitutional rights have been violated.

Abdulmutallab has been locked up since the failed attack on the flight on Christmas Day, 2009, though, the device burned his groin but it never exploded, saving nearly 300 lives on board.

The now 30-year-old claims he has had limited contact with the outside world and has been force-fed while on hunger strike.

The lawsuit alleges staff used ‘excessively and unnecessarily painful’ methods of feeding him at the maximum security prison.

It is also claimed that staff turned a blind eye when white supremacists harassed him during his prayer time. Gail Johnson, his attorney, said in a statement: ‘Prisoners retain fundamental constitutional rights to communicate with others and have family relationships free from undue interference by the government.

‘The restrictions imposed on our client are excessive and unnecessary, and therefore we seek the intervention of the federal court.’

The terror plot was part of a wider attack on the US by al Qaeda. Abdulmutallab had trained with terrorists in Yemen before he was sent America to try to kill hundreds. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the youngest of 16 children of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a wealthy Nigerian banker, and businessman who was described by The Times in 2009 as being “one of the richest men in Africa.”


Source: DailyTimes