Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, also known as "the Underwear bomber," is a Nigerian-born terrorist who unsuccessfully attempted to bring down an airplane flying from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan, on December 25, 2009, using a bomb he smuggled in his underwear. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed to have radicalized Abdulmutallab and provided him with the explosives. He was restrained by other passengers after he managed to light a wall of the plane and his own pants on fire. He was sentenced to life in prison in February 2012.
Other terms tagged with Islamist
Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more