Abdulmutallab Pleads Guilty, Faces Life Imprisonment

Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, faces life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty on Wednesday to all the eight charges against him.

On the second day of his trial at a U.S. Federal Court in Detroit, Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty when the Judge read the eight charges against him.

Reports indicate that Abdulmutallab was trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane carrying 290 people on December 25, 2009.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, who read the charges to the former University of London student, found Abdulmutallab competent and accepted his guilty pleas.

The Detroit Free Press reported that Abdulmutallab read saying, he was guilty under U.S. law, but not under Islamic law, for the crimes he was charged.

He was reported as saying that he tried to carry out the bombing in retaliation for the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere by the U.S.

“If you laugh at us now, we will laugh at you later,” Free Press Reporter Tresa Baldashe, who blogged from the Court room,quoted Abdulmutallab as saying.