Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, told a judge he was admitting all eight counts against him, including terrorism and attempted murder. Abdulmutallab was badly burned when a bomb sewn into his underwear failed to detonate fully, prosecutors say. Abdulmutallab will be sentenced on 12 January 2012 and will spend the rest of his life in prison.
He told the court the bomb was a “blessed weapon to save the lives of innocent Muslims”. “The US should be warned that if they continue to kill and support those who kill innocent Muslims, then the US should await a great calamity... or God will strike them directly,” he said.
US Attorney General Eric Holder welcomed the guilty plea, saying it showed the courts were “one of the most effective tools we have to fight terrorism”. “We will continue to be aggressive in our fight against terrorism and those who target us, and we will let results, not rhetoric, guide our actions.”
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Park Sae-jin
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