Topic: Northwest Airlines Flight 253
(Reuters) - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who confessed to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, has asked the judge who will sentence him next month to give him a new legal adviser.In a three-page, hand-written note ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day ...
A Nigerian man dubbed the "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of Muslims.In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Opening statements begin on Tuesday in the trial of a young Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 by hiding a bomb in his underpants.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose unsuccessful attack led ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - A judge overseeing the trial of a Nigerian man accused of a botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger jet in 2009 laid out ground rules on Friday aimed largely at shielding jurors' privacy.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ...
Britain's universities are complacent in tackling Islamic extremism on campus, the interior minister warned Monday.Home Secretary Theresa May said universities were not taking the issue of radicalisation seriously enough, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper.Her remarks come a day ahead ...
Some of Washington's depraved and mindless stupidities - along with the genitals and other private parts of millions of Americans - are now on full public display at airports, for everyone to see and feel. Thanks to Barack Obama and the aptly ...
The majority of Americans are in favour of the new 'full body' digital X-ray machines to be used more frequently at airports revealed a Washington Post-ABC poll.. After several consultations the Transport Security Administration (TSA) decided that the machines should be used, ...
US President Barack Obama on Saturday weighed in on a topic that has rattled the nerves of air travelers in the United States as the country enters the busiest travel season of the year: increased airport screening.Tightened security measures include the use ...
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