African Examiner (AFP)
11 October 2011
THE trial begins today of "Underpants Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
accused of trying to blow up a packed airliner bound for the US on Christmas Day 2009.
Jurors are to be selected this week before Abdulmutallab contests charges that he tried to kill nearly 300 people aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit .
The trial will be closely watched, as it comes three days after the killing of al-Qa' ida kingpin Anwar al-Awlaqi in a US airstrike in Yemen . American intelligence officials have repeatedly linked the US-born cleric to the Christmas Day operation.
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