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Abdulmutallab, 24, is the latest foreign radical to be tried in a U.S. courtroom under American laws they reject. Zacarias Moussaoui, an associate of the Sept. 11 plotters, bragged on the witness stand in Alexandria, Va., of his desire to kill Americans. Shoe bomber Richard Reid in Boston threatened the destruction of the United States. Both were given life in prison — the same fate that could await Abdulmutallab.
On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew into Detroit allegedly trying to detonate a bomb in his underwear in what authorities said was a terrorist mission inspired by Anwar Awlaki, a U.S.-born Muslim radical killed last week in a U.S. missile strike.
On Tuesday, as jury selection began in his federal trial, Abdulmutallab shouted in court, "Anwar is alive!"
