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**FILE** Cars are seen parked outside Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2009. Northwest Airlines passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian claiming to be acting on orders from al Qaeda, set off an explosive device on a Christmas Day flight in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit. The suspect boarded in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.
Photo by: SUNDAY ALAMBA
**FILE** Cars are seen parked outside Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2009. Northwest Airlines passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian claiming to be acting on orders from al Qaeda, set off an explosive device on a Christmas Day flight in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit. The suspect boarded in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.

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