Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab News

Nigerian pleads guilty to underwear bomb attack

By theGrio

3:05 PM on 10/12/2011

DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with a bomb in his underwear...
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Attempted underwear bomber sought martyrdom

By theGrio

11:44 AM on 10/11/2011

DETROIT (AP) - A federal prosecutor says a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an international flight was on a terrorist mission to kill nearly 300 people and earn a place in heaven as a martyr...
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Trial to begin for man accused in underwear attack

By theGrio

3:32 PM on 10/03/2011

DETROIT (AP) - The trial of a young African accused of trying to bring down an airliner near Detroit with a bomb in his underwear is no whodunit...
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Nigerian back in court over underwear bomb plot

By theGrio

1:14 PM on 12/16/2010

DETROIT (AP) - Federal prosecutors in Detroit added two charges Wednesday, including conspiracy to commit terrorism...
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'Christmas bomber' suspect fires lawyers, wants to plead

By theGrio

3:13 PM on 09/13/2010

DETROIT (AP) - In February, law enforcement officials said he had turned against Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born Yemeni radical who claims to be his teacher, and had helped the U.S. hunt for him...
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Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem

By theGrio

11:24 AM on 09/10/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The report says U.S. authorities failed to realize that Somali-American youths traveling from Minnesota to Mogadishu in 2008 to join extremists was not an isolated issue...
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Christmas plane attack case will test defense

By theGrio

10:41 AM on 01/08/2010

DETROIT (AP) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from his clothes...
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Lawmaker wants military trial for alleged airplane bomber

By theGrio

9:14 AM on 12/29/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leading Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee says the Nigerian man accused of attacking an airliner should be tried by a military tribunal...
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Obama orders review of airline safety, officials acknowledge failures

By theGrio

8:23 AM on 12/29/2009

HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how U.S. intelligence organizations keep the skies safe...
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Terror suspect's family sought, got no help

By theGrio

3:00 PM on 12/28/2009

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner cut off contact with his family and disappeared from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said Monday...
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Terror plot is bad news for Nigerians

By Lola Adesioye

10:04 AM on 12/28/2009

OPINION - Hearing that a terrorist suspect had been found attempting to detonate a device on a plane was bad news. Finding out that the suspect was Nigerian was, for me and many other Nigerians, even worse...
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Napolitano says airline security system failed in case of Nigerian man

By theGrio

7:56 AM on 12/28/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket...
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