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'Underwear Bomber' sues over alleged mistreatment, force-feedings at Colorado ADX supermax prison
KMGH-TV ^ | 10/19/17 | Blair Miller

Posted on 10/19/2017 5:34:22 PM PDT by markomalley

The Nigerian native known as the “Underwear Bomber” sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday in federal court in Denver, alleging his constitutional rights are being violated at the ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado, alleges that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been forced into solitary confinement for an undetermined amount of time, that he’s been chastised by other prisoners and guards for being Muslim, and that he’s been force-fed non-halal food when he went on hunger strikes to protest his alleged mistreatment.

Abdulmutallab is serving four life sentences, plus 50 years without parole, after he was convicted of attempted use of weapons of mass destruction charges. He was sentenced in February 2012 and transferred to ADX the next month.

Abdulmutallab had tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear while aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas 2009.

He was alleged to have connections to al-Qaeda and Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the Colorado State graduate who had called for the killing of Americans before he was likely killed in a drone strike in late 2011.

The lawsuit alleges that once Abdulmutallab got to ADX in Colorado, he was immediately placed in long-term solitary confinement and placed under special administrative measures (SAMs) that prohibited his communication with most of his family members up until last year, when he was allowed to talk to his sister.

The lawsuit says he’s still not allowed to talk to any of his nieces or nephews.

It says of 154,000 people incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons, Abdulmutallab is among less than 30 who have special administrative measures, and alleges that he shouldn’t be placed under the restrictions because his communications don’t risk “death or serious bodily injury to persons” or property, which is a requirement of the SAMs.

“Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the United States Constitution,” the suit says.

It says the restrictions constitute “an unconstitutional deprivation” of his First Amendment rights to free speech and association.


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This lawsuit could've been prevented...
1 posted on 10/19/2017 5:34:22 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

next time he goes on a hunger strike let him starve.


2 posted on 10/19/2017 5:35:41 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: markomalley

He’s a jihad terrorist who tried to bring down a civilian airplane full of innocent people — OF COURSE any of this communications are potentially dangerous — one can’t know what further acts of terrorist barbarism he might be trying to direct or inspire.


3 posted on 10/19/2017 5:38:28 PM PDT by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: markomalley

He was sentenced in February 2012 and..................

.............executed in March of 2012.

In a more sane world......


4 posted on 10/19/2017 5:39:12 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: markomalley

“...This lawsuit could’ve been prevented...”

You’re right. With odongo, I’m surprised he wasn’t let go...just to avoid a lawsuit.
Now, a firing squad would solve the problem...real quick.


5 posted on 10/19/2017 5:39:41 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Enchante

Serve him pork 365 days a year.

Let him self evacuate.


6 posted on 10/19/2017 5:39:57 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: markomalley

his constitutional rights are being violated

?????? hahaha!!!


7 posted on 10/19/2017 5:41:28 PM PDT by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: markomalley

Sorry, Acccchhhmed I ran out of flying f***s to give. Don’t even have a spare damn I can give.


8 posted on 10/19/2017 5:46:09 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: txnativegop

next time he goes on a hunger strike let him starve.

>><<

And let him watch the guards eat some pork ribs.


9 posted on 10/19/2017 5:47:33 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: markomalley

This person is not a civilian terrorist. Once his affiliations became known, he should have been transfered into military custody and tried as an enemy combatant where the penalty is death.


10 posted on 10/19/2017 5:48:49 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley

>The Nigerian native<

I think I’ve identified the problem.


11 posted on 10/19/2017 5:49:07 PM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: markomalley

Is he an American citizen? If not, no Constitutional Rights.

Execute all islamic terrorists caught in the act and still living.

Immediately. Anything else is a waste of taxpayer dollars and often puts the public at further risk.


12 posted on 10/19/2017 5:51:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: markomalley

If he’s a Nigerian native he doesn’t have any constitutional rights.


13 posted on 10/19/2017 5:53:17 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: markomalley
mistreatment

DIO- Mistreated

14 posted on 10/19/2017 5:55:31 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: markomalley

well, if he wanted halal food, he should have worn his underwear bomb in a muslim country


15 posted on 10/19/2017 5:56:20 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: SaveFerris

This individual is a foreign national caught perpetrating an act of terror and attempted mass murder. Anything other than being shot is far too little. But Holder or that other freak of nature were in charge back then, and now he enjoys three squares, a cot, and an attorney that understands his gutter tongue.


16 posted on 10/19/2017 5:56:39 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley
Yep, in my blue sky world, the sheriff who arrested him on the tarmac would have pulled out his service wep and executed him on the spot in front of the cameras.

Message sent

but that's me

17 posted on 10/19/2017 5:57:08 PM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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To: onona

Perhaps you’re being overly dramatic ?


18 posted on 10/19/2017 5:57:46 PM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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To: Impala64ssa
Sorry, Acccchhhmed I ran out of flying f***s to give. Don’t even have a spare damn I can give.

Sorry, Acccchhhmed someone blew up the plane my f***s were flying in. I don’t even have a spare damn I can give.

19 posted on 10/19/2017 5:58:21 PM PDT by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: markomalley
If I woke up one morning and found that I had become a lawyer overnight I hope I'd have the decency to commit suicide.
20 posted on 10/19/2017 6:01:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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