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Will D on 13 Oct 11"Nigerian Man Pleads Guilty in Qaeda Plane Bombing Case DETROIT - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian Man accused of trying to blow up a commercial airliner with a bomb in his underwear in 2009, abruptly pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to each of the eight counts against him, officials said. Enlarge This Image U.S. Marshals Service, via Associated Press Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Related U.S. Says Man Admitted Plot to Blow Up Passenger Jet (October 12, 2011) Times Topic: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab National Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTimesNational for breaking news and headlines. Readers' Comments Share your thoughts. Post a Comment » Read All Comments (60) » The sudden reversal came before the start of the second day of proceedings in the jury trial of Mr. Abdulmutallab, who is not a lawyer but who was representing himself and had pleaded not guilty months ago. After officially entering his guilty plea, Mr. Abdulmutallab, dressed in a gold-shaded tunic, calmly read a six-minute speech to the courtroom in which he suggested that his crimes had been a fitting payback for American-led killings of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, and that he would never be judged as guilty under Islamic law. "I intended to wreck a U.S. aircraft for the U.S. wreckage of Muslim lands and property," the Associated Press quoted him as saying. "