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DETROIT — A Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an international flight near Detroit on Christmas fired his lawyers Monday and suggested he wants to plead guilty to some charges.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds advised Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab not to get rid of his attorneys, but he insisted, and said, “If I want to plead guilty to some counts … basically, how would that go?”
Abdulmutallab responded during his first court appearance since being arraigned in January on six charges, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Edmunds ordered that a standby attorney be named to assist Abdulmutallab with his defense.
