Accused airline bomber Abdulmutallab fires lawyers

FR7 Baptist · Sep 13, 2010

A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb in his underwear last year fired his court-appointed lawyers Monday and raised the possibility of pleading guilty to some charges.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who pleaded not guilty in January to trying to blow up a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day, said his lawyers were not serving his best interests and asked a judge to let him represent himself.

"If I want to plead guilty to some counts, how would that work?" Abdulmutallab asked U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds during a 15-minute court appearance.

Edmunds strongly urged him not to fire his lawyers but agreed to allow Abdulmutallab's request and will appoint new lawyers to act as consultants to him. She told him they would be able to answer questions about his plea.

Abdulmutallab, originally from Nigeria, boarded a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet flight from Amsterdam to Detroit and near the end of the trip he tried to ignite a bomb sewn into his underwear, prosecutors said.
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