...Delivering judgment Thursday, (click title to entry - thank you) almost 26 months after he embarked on the botched suicide mission, US District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds slammed four life sentences plus 50 years on the Nigerian.
The judge, who said, "This was an act of terrorism that cannot be quibbled with", noted that, "the defendant has never expressed doubt or remorse about his mission."
Judge Edmunds said: "To the contrary, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission."
The judge had earlier struck out a motion by Abdulmutallab's standby lawyer, Anthony Chanbers, that the mandatory life sentence against him was unconstitutional, cruel and unusual punishment.
Also at the sentencing, where five of the 289 passengers aboard Northwest Airline Flight 253, were allowed to give their remarks, a 52-second videotape of the explosion of 200 grammes of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) - the explosive substance concealed in his underwear - was played to show the kind of harm it would have caused had his mission been successful....
...With his sentencing, Abdulmutallab, who had been detained at a federal prison in Milan since his arrest, may be moved to federal super-maximum prison in Florence, Colorado, where other convicted terrorists are serving their time.
The 37-acre facility, called USP Florence ADMAX, which is located in Fremont County, opened in 1994 and was established to house high profile prisoners who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control of all the prisoners in US federal prison system....
