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Detroit prosecutors earn top honors for underwear bombing case

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Three federal prosecutors are receiving top honors from the  U.S. justice department.

Three Detroit prosecutors earned the attorney generals' award for their work in the underwear bomber case.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was convicted last year for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas day 2009. He is serving a life sentence.

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