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Sweet Deal Unlikely for Alleged 'Underwear Bomber'
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Short of handing over Osama bin Laden, the "underwear bomber" accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day isn't likely to strike up a deal with prosecutors that will set him free any time soon, legal experts say. "I don't think they're going to be flexible, short of him giving them phenomenal active intelligence," said Brian M. Legghio, a former federal prosecutor in Detroit. "They're going to be looking at lengthy prison time, 40 or 50 years, if not life." Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, hinted in court Monday that he might plead guilty to some of the ...
Pro-Islam Ads Appear in London as Muslims Push Progressive Image
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyPeople have long wondered: What would Jesus do? Now some seem to be asking: What would Muhammad do? On Monday, an advertising campaign aimed at combating negative perceptions of Islam was launched across London. The "Inspired by Muhammad" campaign consists of posters featuring a variety of British Muslim professionals. One shows a female lawyer -- wearing a veil -- next to the text, "I believe in women's rights. So did Muhammad." Another shows a charity worker beside the headline: "I believe in social justice. So did Muhammad." The idea is to emphasize the ways Muslims balance religious ...
AG Eric Holder on 9/11 Terror Trial: I'll Do What's Best for the Case
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyAttorney General Eric Holder Wednesday defended himself against Republican criticism that the Justice Department is treating terrorism suspects as criminals rather than enemies of the state. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder said his department needs prosecutorial options to successfully execute its anti-terrorism duties as he answered Republican concerns about where 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and the granting of Miranda rights to terrorist suspects. He also reaffirmed the Obama administration's commitment to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention ...
John McCain: Bush Administration Wrong to Give Miranda Rights to Shoe Bomber in 2001
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhite House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs accused Republicans Thursday of using a double standard to criticize the Obama administration for giving Miranda rights to accused Christmas day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, when the Bush administration did the same for shoe bomber Richard Reid. "What we have here is politicians who've decided, eight years after they agreed that everything that was done with Richard Reid somehow is now done all wrong because it's a different president," Gibbs said on MSNBC. . Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal critics of the decision to Mirandize ...
Accused Christmas Day Bomber Cooperating With Investigators After Visit From Family
By David Sessions - Politics DailyUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of attempting to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has been talking openly with investigators "for days" after visits from two of his family members, the New York Times reports. CIA operatives located the relatives in Lagos, Nigeria, and persuaded them to come to the United States and encourage Abdulmutallab to cooperate. The suspect was not speaking to FBI investigators before his relatives arrived, but since then has told authorities how and why he tried to detonate an underwear bomb aboard a flight from Amsterdam on ...
Details of Christmas Day Bomber Interview Released
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 24) -- For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked - to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents. He spoke openly about what he'd done and why, and provided valuable intelligence, U.S. officials told The Associated Press in a series of interviews that spell out for the first time the details of Abdulmutallab's arrest and questioning on Dec. 25. Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect tried one last gambit as he was taken from the plane: He claimed ...
Bin Laden Claims Credit for Christmas Day Bomb Attempt, but Officials Doubt It
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOsama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, but an intelligence official and other terrorism analysts believe it was only an effort on his part to show he is still in command of worldwide al-Qaeda and not just a figurehead. In a minute-long tape "Osama to Obama" message carried on the Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, bin Laden said, "The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of the Sept. 11. America will never dream of ...
White House Denies Report That In-Flight Info Emerged on Alleged Bomber
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe White House is disputing a report in the Los Angeles Times that U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged Christmas Day bomber's ties to extremists while he was in the air and planned to question him when he landed. According to the Times, border officials found information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's radical ties from a database as the Northwest Airlines flight was bound for Detroit from Amsterdam. "The people in Detroit were prepared to look at him in secondary inspection," a senior law enforcement official told the Times. "The decision had been made. The [database] ...
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