 His son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Christmas bomber) attempted to detonate plastic explosives aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009 and is currently serving four life term sentences plus 50 years without parole at ADX Florence, a supermax federal prison in the United States.Mutallab was born to the family of Abdul Mutallab Barade, an officer in the Funtua Works Dept.He lives in Funtua, in Katsina State in Northern Nigeria, though reportedly the family owns homes in London and Ghana as well.