Umar farouk abdulmutallab News

Two days after the White House announced an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a passenger flight using a new kind of underwear bomb, intelligence officials have revealed that the attempt was foiled by a double agent the CIA planted in al-Qaeda.

The 25-year-old Nigerian student, who tried but failed to blow up a Northwest airliner with a bomb hidden in his underwear as it prepared to land in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Detroit - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the infamous "underwear bomber," has pleaded guilty of attempting to blow up Flight 253, a US-bound transatlantic airliner, flying from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, with 289 people on board, on December 25, 2009.

Detroit - Al-Qaeda's terrorists including those who carried out 9/11 and 7/7 are men with evil and hatred in their hearts. Others are more like little boys who have lost their way.

The relatively new branch of al-Qaeda operatives based in Yemen have evolved from Osama bin Laden's ideology of attacking targets of significance in favor of striking whenever and wherever opportunity is present, a media report states.

The Obama administration came under great fire when they permitted the man accused of trying to bring down a jet liner on Christmas Day the right to remain silent instead of holding him like a military prisoner.

The systematic cover-up of the failed Flight 253 'Underwear Bomber' plot has become glaringly obvious as mounting evidence makes it appear that the 'terrorist' attack was yet another false flag attack that failed

Suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, intended to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a high explosive known as PETN, says a federal indictment sworn against him. Authorities said the aircraft's wall and his pants caught fire.

Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a 23-year-old man from Nigeria, has been charged with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines jet that flew from Netherlands to Detroit.