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Al-Qaida 'underwear bomber' stuns Detroit court by changing plea to guilty

Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab decides to plead guilty to conspiring to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009

Paul Harris in Detroit

12, Oct, 2011 @4:08 PM

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'Underwear bomber', accused over Christmas Day terror plot, goes on trial

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, said to have planned a failed suicide mission that could have killed everyone on board plane

Paul Harris in Detroit

11, Oct, 2011 @1:02 PM

Tweets from the Detroit federal court house

Paul Harris reports from the Detroit federal court house on the opening day of the trial of "underwear bomber", Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Newest tweets at the top

Paul Harris

11, Oct, 2011 @1:16 PM

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Underwear bomber pleads guilty

Live coverage by Paul Harris as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's guilty plea is accepted by court

Paul Harris

12, Oct, 2011 @2:40 PM

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Not much to joke about in 'underwear bomber' trial | Paul Harris

Paul Harris: It may be easy to make jokes about the accused 'underwear bomber', but his trial reveals there's nothing very amusing about the deaths of hundreds of civilians avoided by sheer luck

Paul Harris

12, Oct, 2011 @6:20 PM

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'Underwear bomber' trial begins as prosecutors lay out case

Witnesses recount moments of panic as trial of Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up a passenger plane two years ago begins in Detroit

Paul Harris in Detroit

11, Oct, 2011 @7:25 PM

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Flight terror suspect Abdulmutallab charged with trying to blow up jet
MI5 probes 'London link' as US prosecutors claim former UK student boarded Flight 253 with device strapped to leg

James Sturcke

27, Dec, 2009 @10:57 AM

Barack Obama says al-Qaida behind botched Christmas Day bomb plot
US president reveals would-be suicide bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, trained by terror group affiliate in Yemen

David Batty and agencies

02, Jan, 2010 @12:55 PM

Web postings of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Failed bomber of Northwest Airlines flight had written of loneliness, isolation and struggle against 'sinful' thoughts

Adam Gabbatt

29, Dec, 2009 @4:52 PM

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Bombing suspect was pious pupil who shunned high life of the rich
Xan Rice visits the home town of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Nigeria to meet those who knew him in his youth

Xan Rice in Kuduna

31, Dec, 2009 @10:50 PM