WTF! TERRORIST THAT TRIED TO BLOW UP FLIGHT 253 CAME FROM A LIFE OF LUXURY!

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab lived a life of extraordinary privilege before he turned to terror.
The son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, Abdulmutallab was educated at top schools in Africa and Britain - and dwelled in homes worth millions, his relatives said.

The baby-faced extremist's last known address was a $4 million flat in one of London's poshest neighborhoods.

Police in London scoured the swanky apartment Saturday in search of clues as to what - or who - might have led Abdulmutallab, 23, to try to blow up a packed jet over Detroit.

The flat, in London's West End, is surrounded by several of the city's best-known tourist haunts, including Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Historic theaters, expensive hotels and exclusive retail stores are all within walking distance of Abdulmutallab's former pad.

He reportedly hails from a far more humble place, the Nigerian border town of Katsina.

Abdulmutallab's father, Dr. Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was a government minister during the 1970s and went on to become the head of the First Bank of Nigeria.

As a teen, Abdulmutallab attended the British International School in Lome, Togo, a Nigerian paper reported.

There, he quickly acquired a reputation as a devoted Muslim.

"At the secondary school, he was known for preaching about Islam to his schoolmates and he was popularly called 'Alfa,' a local coinage for Islamic scholar," according to The Day.

After his secondary school, Abdulmutallab went to the prestigious University College London in 2005 to study engineering. He graduated three years later.

Abdulmutallab was apparently sent to Dubai by his father after finishing his education in London.

CNN reported he fled to Yemen, a hotbed of militant activity, soon after and cut off all communication with his family.

Who Abdulmutallab met with in Yemen remains unclear. But by the time he left the country, he had apparently become a radicalized extremist bent on inflicting carnage in the West.

This past May, he reportedly tried to return to Britain for a six-month program, but his visa application was denied by the United Kingdom Border Agency.

An official told the Times of London "he was applying to study at an educational establishment that we didn't consider to be genuine."

Seven months later, Abdulmutallab completed his descent from the promising child of a wealthy family to a brazen terrorist when he tried to set off an explosive inside Northwest Flight 253.