john walker lindh, attempted shoe bomber richard reid and 9/11 conspirators, zacarias moussaoui were among the hundreds of defendants convicted of terror-related defenses without political controversy, without political controversy, during the last administration. over the past three years, we have built a remarkable record of success in terror prostitutipros prusion prosecutions. he was sentenced last month to life in prison without possibility of parole. while in custody he provided significant intelligence in the briefing sessions with the fbi. he described in detail how he became inspired to carry out an act of jihad and how he traveled to yemen and made contact with anwar al awlaki, a u.s. citizen and a leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. abdulmutallab detailed the training he received as well as al awlaki's specific instructions to wait until the airplane was over the united states before detonating his bomb. in addition to abdulmutallab, faisal shahzad, the attempted times square bomber, ahmad gilani, a conspirator in the embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania and thr

john walker lindh, attempted shoe bomber richard reid, and 9/11 conspirator zacarias moussaoui were among the hundreds of defendants convicted of terrorism-related offenses, without political controversy, during the last administration. over the past three years, we've built a remarkable record of success in terror prosecutions. for example, in october, we secured a conviction against umar farouk abdulmutallab for his role in the attempted bombing of an airplane traveling from amsterdam to detroit on christmas day 2009. he was sentenced just last month to life in prison without the possibility of parole. while in custody, he provided significant intelligence during debriefing sessions with the fbi. he described in detail how he became inspired to carry out an act of jihad, and how he traveled to yemen and made contact with anwar al-aulaqi, a u.s. citizen and a leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. abdulmutallab also detailed the training that he received, as well as aulaqi's specific instructions to wait until the airplane was over the united states before detonating his bomb. in a