Underwear bomber suspect admitted he worked for al Qaeda
BY TRESA BALDAS
DETROIT FREE PRESS EXCERPT:
4:33 PM, Aug. 26, 2011|
The so-called underwear bomber charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 admitted to
federal agents that he was working for al Qaeda, federal prosecutors disclosed in a court filing today.
The information was made public in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 4 on charges he tried to blow up an airliner carrying nearly 300 people with a bomb hidden in his briefs.
As part of his defense strategy, the Nigerian national has asked a federal judge to throw out a statement he made to
the FBI at the University of Michigan Hospital, where he was treated for burns
immediately following his foiled attempt to blow up the airliner.
It was in that statement, court records show, that Abdulmutallab told agents he was working for Al Quada.
Defendant, an educated, well-traveled man, spoke freely to them, acknowledging his connection to al-Qaeda, an organization
that has engaged in coordinated attacks involving aircraft, as well as acknowledging
his intention to kill the passengers aboard his flight with an explosive device, federal
prosecutors wrote in their filing.
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If this surprises you, you're stupid
BY TRESA BALDAS
DETROIT FREE PRESS EXCERPT:
4:33 PM, Aug. 26, 2011|
The so-called underwear bomber charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009 admitted to
federal agents that he was working for al Qaeda, federal prosecutors disclosed in a court filing today.
The information was made public in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, is scheduled to go to trial Oct. 4 on charges he tried to blow up an airliner carrying nearly 300 people with a bomb hidden in his briefs.
As part of his defense strategy, the Nigerian national has asked a federal judge to throw out a statement he made to
the FBI at the University of Michigan Hospital, where he was treated for burns
immediately following his foiled attempt to blow up the airliner.
It was in that statement, court records show, that Abdulmutallab told agents he was working for Al Quada.
Defendant, an educated, well-traveled man, spoke freely to them, acknowledging his connection to al-Qaeda, an organization
that has engaged in coordinated attacks involving aircraft, as well as acknowledging
his intention to kill the passengers aboard his flight with an explosive device, federal
prosecutors wrote in their filing.
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If this surprises you, you're stupid
