Accused Underpants Bomber Asks to Defend Himself
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane with explosives hidden in his underpants, told a judge that he wants to defend himself in court.
“I prefer to represent myself,” he told U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds at a hearing today in federal court in Detroit.