In this 2001 image made available by teacher Mike Rimmer, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab poses with a group from Lome's International School, Togo, on a school trip to London. On Dec. 25, 2009, Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit, an attack claimed to have been coordinated by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Northwest Airlines planes are seen at the Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. That was the airport where the bombing suspect was taken from the flight.
Transportation Security Administration agent Paul Marshall helps an international traveler at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Officials were trying to calm fears a day after an attempted terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight as it was about to land in Detroit.
Will Willow, left, of the U.S. Marshal Service and Sgt. Michael Dillard of the University of Michigan Hospital address the media outside the hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being treated for burns at the hospital.
Exterior view of the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009, where bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being treated for burns.
Passengers are seen outside Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec. 26, 2009. A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria who tried to set of a bomb on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, went through Schiphol airport in Amsterdam en route to Detroit.
Police activity is seen outside an apartment block in Mansfield Street, central London, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Police searched an apartment in the building as authorities probed the background of the man suspected of attempting to down the Northwest Airlines jetliner.