Why Abdulmutalab's Underwear Bomb Failed

About three years after the failed
attempt by a Nigerian, Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, to
detonate an explosive aboard a
Northwest Flight 253 in the
United States of America, facts
have emerged why the explosive
failed to go off.
Abdulmutallab, the son of one of
Nigeria’s most prominent
businessmen, has since been
sentenced to life imprisonment
without parole for his action.
However, the FBI has revealed
the reason why the explosives
failed to go off over Detroit as
planned on December 25th,
2009.
Two FBI agents, in a recent chat,
said Umar confessed that he had
worn the explosive underwear
for three weeks in order to get
used to it and make sure he
could get it through security.
“So basically for three weeks he
wore this garment, these
underwear with this device in it.
We think ultimately that is
probably what caused the
disruption in the sequence of
events in the explosion,” said FBI
agent Ted Peissig.
The FBI agents also revealed that
Umar was not recruited by al
Qaeda, until he almost forced
his way into the sect. “He sought
out al Qaeda relentlessly,”
another FBI agent on the case,
Mike Connelly said. “He persisted
and he was almost turned away
at times, you know, by al Qaeda.
But he refused to relent.”
It would be recalled that during
his trial Abdulmutallab had
described the bomb in his
underwear as a ‘blessed
weapon’ to avenge the poor
treatment of Muslims around the
world.