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Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by AloyEmeka5: 1:40am On Sep 14, 2010
[size=14pt]'Underwear Bomber' Wants To Go It Alone Before U.S. Judge[/size]
Posted: September 13, 2010 - 21:23By SaharaReporters, New York


The Nigerian-born "underwear bomber" and son of Nigeria's aristocracy,told a bewildered US district court judge in Detroit today that he doesn't want any of his lawyers anymore.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told the the US judge he could defend himself of the charges of attempted murder and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction ,the second charge, a terrorism count, carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Asked if he had defended any cases in a US court before or if he knew the federal court procedures, he answered in the negative. He then asked the judge how to plead guilty to some of the charges earlier read to him a move a legal observer present in court said might be a signal to his intention to plea bargain with prosecutors.

Farouk is a Nigerian citizen and son of the multi-millionaire banker and former Chairman of First Bank in Nigeria, Alhaji Abdulmuttalab. He was trained in Al Qaeda camps in Yemen and was travelling to the US last December when he tried to blow up a Northwest flight as it approached the Detroit Metro Airport but his bomb failed to detonate as planned, causing him to suffer 3rd degree burns around his Instruments.




"If he went to trial it's almost certain he'd be convicted. The government doesn't have a smoking gun. It has smoking skivvies," said former Chicago-based terrorism prosecutor Lloyd Meyer speaking to the Global Security Newswire, in a reference to the fizzled underwear bomb. Others have called the case "a slam dunk."

After dropping all his lawyers provided by the public defender's office earlier, the judge asked that a certified lawyer stick with Farouk through out the trial regardless of how he pleads or conducts himself during the trial, which is expected to be expedited in view of his personal decisions to jettison his counsel.

The case is scheduled to be heard Oct. 14, 2010.

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/underwear-bomber-wants-go-it-alone-us-judge-0
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by Becomrich0: 2:34am On Sep 14, 2010
If he does not feel comfortable with his lawyers, he can ask them for a nigeria lawyer.
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by AloyEmeka5: 2:49am On Sep 14, 2010
A Nigerian lawyer of US lawyer who is Nigerian native/descent?
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by MRMoneyE(m): 2:52am On Sep 14, 2010
The wages of sin is ??
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by AloyEmeka5: 2:54am On Sep 14, 2010
The wages of sin is an election into the Nigerian political office.
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by Beaf: 3:13am On Sep 14, 2010
He is going to be in jail for a very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time!
What does he need lawyers for when he's going to die in jail? The poor fool will never taste puzzy! cry cry cry
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by Nobody: 6:22am On Sep 14, 2010
Beaf:

He is going to be in jail for a very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time!
What does he need lawyers for when he's going to die in jail? The poor fool will never taste puzzy! cry cry cry

LOL grin grin grin

There are 70 virgins waiting for him on the other side. undecided
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by slap1(m): 7:23am On Sep 14, 2010
The poor fool will never taste puzzy!
At least while he's still alive.
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by udezue(m): 7:45am On Sep 14, 2010
Correct Aboki lol. No lawyer? Dem go turn his azz into puzzy.
Re: Mutallab Fires All His Attorneys by Dotman01(m): 9:50am On Sep 14, 2010
This american ppl sef, dem neva kill am ni. . . Instead make una put tire for im neck, make im roast quickly . . . Una dey waste time and resources to hire lawyer.

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