Underwear bomber gets life: He never expressed doubt or remorse, judge says

Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to multiple life sentences, declared in federal court in Detroit: 'Mujahideen are proud to kill in the name of God.'??

Admitted underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was sentenced on Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison for his attempt to destroy a commercial jetliner in flight on Christmas Day 2009.

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Mr. Abdulmutallab faced a combination of four consecutive life sentences as well as an additional life sentence plus 60 years in prison after pleading guilty in October to all eight charges related to the Al Qaeda bomb plot.

There were 290 individuals on the Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jetliner at the time of the planned bombing.

US District Judge Nancy Edmunds sentenced the 25-year-old Nigerian to multiple terms of life without parole.

?The defendant has never expressed any doubt or regret or remorse about his mission,? the judge said, according to the Detroit Free Press. ?To the contrary, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission.?

The judge told Abdulmutallab that she could not control his future intentions and motives, but she could control any opportunity for him to attempt another suicide attack.

Speaking in federal court in Detroit, Abdulmutallab was defiant. ?Today is a day of victory,? he said, according to the Associated Press. ?Mujahideen are proud to kill in the name of God. And that is exactly what God told us to do in the Koran.?

During the hearing, prosecutors played a video tape prepared by the FBI laboratory showing the potential explosive force of Abdulmutallab?s device. During the demonstration, Abdulmutallab twice called out: ?Allahu akbar,? which is Arabic for God is great.

The sentence is similar to the punishment given to admitted shoe bomber Richard Reid, who received three life sentences for his attempt in 2001 to detonate explosives in his shoes during a trans-Atlantic flight to the US. That bomb also did not detonate.

Federal prosecutors had argued that Abdulmutallab represented a continuing threat to US citizens and was likely to attempt another suicide attack should the opportunity present itself. They said he should receive the maximum sentence ? life in prison.

A court-appointed defense lawyer, Anthony Chambers of Detroit, said in court filings that life in prison was an excessive punishment given that no one but Adbulmutallab was injured during his failed bombing attempt. Mr. Chambers said sentencing Abdulmutallab to life in prison would violate the Eighth Amendment?s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Judge Edmunds rejected the argument.

In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder praised the outcome of the case. He and other Obama administration officials had been criticized by Republicans for not turning Abdulmutallab over to the military for harsh interrogation.

The attorney general defended the FBI?s actions. ?Today?s sentence once again underscores the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in both incapacitating terrorists and gathering valuable intelligence from them,? he said.

?Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab is a remorseless terrorist who believes it is his duty to kill Americans,? Holder said. ?For attempting to take the lives of 289 innocent people, he has been appropriately sentenced to serve every day of the reset of his life in prison.?

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New iPad App Lets You Relive John Glenn's 'Friendship 7' Flight 50 Years Later (SPACE.com)

Want to experience what it was like to be inside NASA's mission control center 50 years ago, monitoring astronaut John Glenn as he became the first American to orbit the Earth? There's an app for that.

Spacecraft Films, which for more than a decade has been restoring mission footage for DVD and Blu-ray distribution, launched their first Apple iPad app on Monday (Feb. 13), a week before the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic mission.

The app, which is called "Friendship 7: The Voyage of Mercury-Atlas 6," gives users a seat in mission control for a multimedia-rich playback of the flight on Feb. 20, 1962.

"Fifty years ago John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth," Mark Gray, Spacecraft Films' producer, wrote in a description of the app for the Apple store. "Relive his three-orbit mission with exclusive access to over 4 hours of rare video, plus the complete audio from the onboard recorder and flight director's loop recorded in mission control."

The app, which requires Apple iOS 5.0 or later and a Wifi connection for watching the streaming videos, is available for download for $6.99.

Pre-launch training

The "Friendship 7" app begins with a pilot's view of the Mercury capsule's cockpit. Tapping in the lower right corner, the static photo becomes an interactive tour. By touching each panel, users can bring up the details about what every dial and switch controlled.

Once familiar with Friendship 7, users can tap through and watch six "Pre-Launch" videos, including the 1959 press conference announcing John Glenn and the other original Mercury astronauts. Another video channel, titled "Altitude Chamber," shows footage of Glenn with his backup, Scott Carpenter, during a checkout of the spacecraft. [Photos: John Glenn's Space Legacy]

Other videos offer a look at the Atlas D missile that became Glenn's rocket, and the Friendship 7 capsule itself, including footage of artist Cece Bibby painting the spacecraft's logo on capsule's side.

The "Simulated Flight" channel offers a 10-minute look at Glenn during a mission simulation conducted on the launch pad. The footage from Jan. 17, 1962 is paired with the audio from a pre-flight interview with Glenn.

Lastly, a silent track offers a look at the activities leading up to a called-off launch attempt on Jan. 27, 1962. The Friendship 7 launch was postponed and "scrubbed" a total of 11 times before it successfully lifted off on Feb. 20.

Go for orbit

After the pre-launch activities, the app next moves into mission control. Choosing either "Onboard Recorder" or "Flight Director Loop" channels changes the view from inside Friendship 7 to the flight director's console in the control room at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Just like the real Mercury mission control, the field of view is filled by a large world map with circles indicating ground stations and a red Mercury capsule tracking where Glenn and Friendship 7 were in flight. Here, content channels are selected by pressing buttons on the console.

The "Onboard Recorder" plays back air-to-ground audio as was recorded inside the Friendship 7 capsule.

"Glenn's mission lasted about five hours," Gray wrote on Spacecraft Films' website. "The 'Friendship 7' app contains the complete onboard recording during the mission, presented to enable you to access it at any point, and monitor the progress of the spacecraft as they did from the Mercury Mission Control Center."

Similarly, "Flight Loop" taps into flight director Christopher Kraft's audio, letting users listen in on the calls between the various mission control consoles throughout the flight.

Users can also access videos of Glenn eating breakfast, getting into his spacesuit, moving to the launch pad, and entering the spacecraft on launch day, as well six different views of the liftoff of Friendship 7. Another film gives a sense of what it was like on the ground, with footage taken inside the Mercury mission control during the flight. [America's First Spaceship: Project Mercury (Infographic)]

The "Friendship 7" app also offers complete footage from the pilot observation camera, showing Glenn seated on board the spacecraft, with audio from the air-to-ground transmissions.

"[The footage is] from a recent digital transfer of the film, much better than the quality has been in the past," Gray wrote.

In addition, users can flip through the photographs taken by Glenn of the Earth below. Where possible, Spacecraft Films has captioned each 35mm shot as to what location it shows and during which of Glenn's three orbits it was taken.

As the mission comes to a close, the app offers footage of the recovery of Friendship 7 and the ticker tape parade in New York City that celebrated Glenn's success.

With the nearly five hour flight at its end, users can then tap back to the first screen to view footage taken in 2009 showing the Complex 14 launch pad as it appears today at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

iPad users can read more about and download the ?Friendship 7? app from Apple?s App Store.

Continue reading at collectSPACE.com to learn the subject of Spacecraft Films? next iPad app.?

Follow collectSPACE on Facebook and Twitter @collectSPACE and editor Robert Pearlman @robertpearlman. Copyright 2011?collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.

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Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma, or DMM, is a rare but highly aggressive type of cancer. It occurs in the thin layer of tissue, the pleura, lining the chest area cavity and lungs. Once diagnosed with DMM, most sufferers don?t survive beyond one year. This cancer is more common in males compared to women, as well as in seniors.

Many people with DMM have a history of contact with asbestos; however, if they are unaware that such exposure occurred, they might be unaware that they are in danger. A patient with DMM typically has a number of from the following signs or symptoms: heart problems, shortness of breath, unexplained weight loss, fatigue, fever, or perhaps a cough. An x-ray usually implies that the pleural tissue round the lungs has thickened due to the development of numerous nodules or small cancerous growths. Sometimes, there might be just one large growth. When a biopsy from the cancer tissue is done, the types of cells that make up the cancer might be epithelioid, mixed, or sarcomatoid. People with epithelioid cell cancers tend to survive somewhat longer; individuals with sarcomatoid cancers will often have a grim mesothelioma prognosis.

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If mesothelioma is identified soon enough, a remedy is possible with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Even so, in the case of a more advanced illness a remedy isn?t feasible, however with the best treatments the illness could be slowed down dramatically .

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