'Underwear bomber' pleads guilty to US airline plot | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

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.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pictured in this 2009 booking photograph released by the US Marshals Service in Detroit, Michigan. A young Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to kill nearly 300 people aboard a US-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 with explosives secreted in his underwear.

In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day of his high profile-trial in Detroit, Michigan, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab insisted his actions were righteous and that the true crime was US foreign policy.