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Alleged Underwear Bomber Hints at Guilty Plea

Sep 13th 2010 – 3:38PM
U.S. Marshals Service / AFP / Getty Images

U.S. Marshals Service / AFP / Getty Images

DETROIT (Sept. 13) -- A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an international flight near Detroit on Christmas fired his lawyers today and suggested he wants to plead guilty to some charges. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds advised Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab not to get rid of his attorneys, but he insisted. Edmunds...

Passenger Says He Helped Thwart Terror Attack

Dec 26th 2009 – 9:37PM
CNN

CNN

(Dec. 26) -- Passenger Jasper Schuringa told CNN that with the aid of the cabin crew, he helped subdue and isolate Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a plane. Schuringa of Amsterdam, Netherlands, said he was traveling to Florida to visit friends. The journey aboard Northwest...

Background on Jasper Schuringa

Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was an international passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, United States.

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