The United States has said that Nigerian terrorist Umar Abdulmutallab, 23 failed to successfully carry out a bomb attack aboard a Northwest Airlines Flight 253 carrying nearly 300 people, en route from Amsterdam to Michigan, US on December 25, 2009 because the explosives he was wired with became ‘degraded’ after he wore the same pair of underpants for two weeks.
The U.S. Head of the Transportation Security Administration, John Pistole, said during the week that the bomb failed to detonate because of how long Abdulmutallab had been wearing his underwear.
Pistole said, “The bomber had had the device with him for over two weeks.”
When he was then asked whether the bomb had become ‘damp’ Pistole replied that the explosive had become damp due to the length of days Abdulmutallab carried the device in his underwear.
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