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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
pleads
guilty, says underwear bomb 'blessed weapon'
Newsdiaryonline Wed Oct 12,2011
The trial
of Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab got under way today .According to
Asociated Press,the underwear bomber
told a
Detroit courtroom Wednesday
that the bomb was a "blessed weapon to save the lives of
innocent Muslims."
The AP
also reported the
Nigerian man who pleaded
guilty to trying to blow up an
international flight for
al-Qaida with a bomb in his underwear as saying he
committed terrorism in retaliation for the killing of Muslims
around the world.
The underwear bomber
pleaded
guilty on the second day of his trial to charges that include
conspiracy to commit terrorism and attempted murder.
He says he
tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with nearly 300
people on board on Christmas 2009.
The bomb
didn't work, but Abdulmutallab was badly burned. Hours later in
the hospital, he told the FBI that he was working for al-Qaida
in Yemen.
Story culled from
AP Report
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