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"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. "

"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. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab U.S. Says Man Admitted Plot to Blow Up Passenger Jet (October 12, 2011) 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. "

The 25-year-old son of a Stafford councilman struck and killed a man with his car Wednesday morning, according to a report on APP.com. Robert Kusznikow was driving south on Mermaid Drive when his vehicle hit Michael Grosso, 76, of Barnegat at 10:22 a.m. Grosso died just before 11 a.m. at Southern Ocean Media Center in manahwaki, the report said.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - Armed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said Monday. One wounded man said an attacker yelled: "Make sure there's no survivors." Burundi, a tiny nation still reeling from a civil war that killed more than 250,000 people, is awash in weapons but attacks like the one Sunday night are rare. Still, the region borders eastern Congo, which is wracked by violence from a myriad of rebel groups.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - Armed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said Monday. One wounded man said an attacker yelled: "Make sure there's no survivors."

An elderly Texas man who was trapped in his car for two days wrote what he thought was a farewell message on the car's armrest, saying he wasn't trying to kill himself and suggesting the road he was on should be fixed. Robert Porter, 85, drove his car down a steep rural road near his Kerrville home in central Texas early last week to look at a pond. He couldn't get the two-wheel-drive vehicle back up the soft caliche road, and the car rolled off the path and became stuck near the bottom of a ravine

" Engineers worked gingerly to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground."

Boston (CNN) -- A federal grand jury in Boston has indicted a 26-year-old man for allegedly plotting to use model airplanes to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

A British man was severely injured in an attack by a great white shark while swimming this week near Cape Town, South Africa.

Police are seeking possible additional victims of a 28-year-old Middlesex County man charged with sexually assaulting two young girls he met after posing as a teenager on Facebook.

A man has filed a claim for damages against the city of Edmonds after two of his dogs wandered through an unsecured opening at an off-leash park and were killed by a train.

GREENWICH VILLAGE - Police are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman as she tried to enter her apartment in Greenwich Village. Police said the woman was entering her apartment at approximately 2:00 a.m. on Thursday last week when a man grabbed her from behind and physically and sexually assaulted her. The victim was taken to a hospital where she was treated and released.

ARLINGTON, Texas - They bookended the night standing together - face to face, man to man, manager to starter - both aware of the stakes, both aware of their desperation heading into Game 4 of the World Series.

"It took years, but I realized what I loved most in journalism was immersing myself in the lives of ordinary people, be it for a day or a week or for months, and telling their stories. Years ago, I started carrying around a William Faulkner quote in my wallet, from a speech he gave in 1950 accepting the Nobel Prize. He talked about how it was the writer's privilege to remind man of his finest qualities, his compassion and sacrifice, and to "help man endure by lifting his heart.""

CODY, Wyo. - Federal wildlife officials have tracked down and killed a grizzly bear suspected of fatally mauling a man outside Yellowstone National Park.

 Human remains discovered in Atlantic County early today have been tentatively identified as those of a North Bergen man who was abducted from a parking garage after dropping off his family at an Atlantic City casino earlier this month.

Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed in Texas Wednesday evening for his involvement in the infamous dragging death of a black man 13 years ago.

Police units last night taped off a West Ward intersection after a man was shot in the chest and leg, police said.

Leroy T. McKelvey, 59, allegedly used the gun on three men in an upperdeck scuffle at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, during a Sunday match-up between the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys, according to New Jersey Police Sgt. Julian Castellanos.