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Nigeria:
'Underwear' Bomber Pleads Guilty in U.S. Court
Leadership, 13 October 2011
Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, who is currently charged in the United States for trying to bomb a Detroit-bound flight on the December 25, 2009, yesterday pleaded guilty to all the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Abdulmutallab - Yes, I'm Guilty
This Day, 13 October 2011
The 24-year-old Nigerian who tried to bring down a United States-bound Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from the Netherlands, on December 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Underwear Bomber, Abdulmutallab, Pleads Guilty
The Moment, 13 October 2011
THE federal trial of the so-called underwear bomber came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday when the defendant, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, pleaded guilty to charges of attempt to blow… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Abdulmutallab Pleads Guilty, Explains Attempt to Blow Up U.S. Plane
This Day, 12 October 2011
A Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwear pleaded guilty on Wednesday and said he wanted to avenge the killing of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Underwear Bomber' Pleads Guilty, Warns U.S.
RNW Africa, 13 October 2011
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Farouk Mutallab Pleads Guilty
Daily Trust, 13 October 2011
A Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwear pleaded guilty to all charges yesterday and said he wanted to avenge the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Abdulmutallab Calls Govt Sceptic As Witness
Daily Trust, 12 October 2011
The accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has called Delta Flight 253 eyewitness Kurt Haskell as a witness for the defense, a move that could blow the whole case wide… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Trial Begins for Abdulmutallab As FBI Foils Another Terror Plot
This Day, 12 October 2011
A Nigerian accused of the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a United States Northwest Airlines plane Flight 253, with explosives hidden in his underwear, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Trial of Mutallab 'Underwear' Bomber Opens
Daily Champion, 12 October 2011
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab yesterday readily admitted he was trying to bring down a United States (US) airliner when he was arrested on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his… Read more »
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Nigeria:
U.S. Prosecutor - Abdulmutallab Wanted to Kill 300 People
This Day, 11 October 2011
The trial of a young Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a packed US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 in one of Al-Qaeda's biggest failed plots got underway amid heightened… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mutallab's Trial Begins
Vanguard, 11 October 2011
Nigeria's Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, will today make history as the first blackman from sub-Saharan Africa to be charged with terrorism- related case in Detroit, United States… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mutallab - Lawyer to Make Opening Statement Tuesday
Leadership, 9 October 2011
Accused "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is defending himself against terrorism charges, will not make his own opening statement on Tuesday. Rather, the accused… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mutallab - Legal War Looms Over Sack of Country's Juror
Leadership, 8 October 2011
The sack of the only Nigerian Juror from the jury pool in the terror trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab may be causing legal war between the United States prosecutors and the legal… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Nation's Juror Dismissed From Abdulmutallab's Trial
Daily Trust, 7 October 2011
An unnamed juror from Nigeria was yesterday dismissed just 30 minutes after she chosen for the trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, which will begin in earnest on Tuesday with… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mutallab - Nigerian Juror Sacked From Trial
Vanguard, 7 October 2011
A Nigerian woman who was earlier selected as a juror in the trial of a 24-year- old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, for allegedly attempting to blow up a North-West Airline in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
U.S. is Cancer, Abdulmutallab Tells Court
The Moment, 5 October 2011
DEFIANT Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, yesterday told a U.S. Federal Court sitting in Detroit, that not only is the radical Islamic cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, killed by the U.S. elite… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Trial of Abdulmutalab, Failed Bomber Begins
Vanguard, 4 October 2011
The trial begins today of 24 year old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up a packed airliner bound for the US on Christmas Day in 2009. Read more »
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Nigeria:
U.S. Court Admits Abdulmutallab's Hospital Statement
Leadership, 17 September 2011
A federal judge ruled yesterday that prosecutors can tell jurors about incriminating statements that the suspected December 25 airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, made while… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Osama Is Alive, Abdulmutallab Yells in Court
This Day, 15 September 2011
The Nigerian who is accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, created a scene in an appearance before a Detroit jury… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Mutallab Wins Bid to Defend Self-Trial Set for October
Daily Trust, 18 August 2011
Judge Nancy Edmund of a US district Court in Michigan has ruled that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is fit to stand trial without an attorney over allegations of terrorism leveled… Read more »