Bombing suspect, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul-mutallab, has been moved to a US federal prison in Milan, 80 kilometers outside Detroit.
A court hearing for Abdul-mutallab was canceled Monday in Detroit on a request by the government to obtain a DNA sample from him. The 23-year-old man is charged with attempting to blow up a Delta Airlines passenger plane as it approached Detroit en route from Amsterdam. Abdul-mutallab has told investigators that al Qaeda operatives in Yemen gave him the explosive device and told him how to detonate it.
This photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is being held in Michigan after allegedly trying to set off an explosive device on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day. (U.S. Marshal's Service Photo/AP) |