Detroit, MI – A Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear says he committed terrorism in retaliation for the killing of Muslims around the world.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told a Detroit courtroom Wednesday that the bomb was a “blessed weapon to save the lives of innocent Muslims.”
Abdulmutallab has 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 Qaeda in Yemen.
I’m happy that he decided to plead guilty. I’d hate to be a juror at his trial and have to hold and examine the evidence (his farshtunkiner gotches).