The Nigerian student accused of trying to blow up an airplane over Detroit with a bomb in his underwear has plead guilty and Twitter is buzzing with jokes.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty to “to eight criminal charges, including conspiring to commit terrorism” after he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day 2009, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Abdulmutallab faces a mandatory 30 year sentence and “could get life for some of the charges, which include conspiring to commit terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction,” reported the Free Press.
Abdulmutallab defiantly addressed the court Wednesday following his plea.
“I am guilty in U.S. law but not the Koran,” said Abdulmutallab, according to a tweet from CBS News correspondent Steve Futterman. “I am guilty in U.S. law but not Muslim law.”
The Nigerian student has been trending on Twitter since about 10 a.m. ET and has been mentioned more than 3,000 times, according to statistics from Topsy, a social media search engine.
Most of the tweets were spreading the news of Abdulmutallab’s guilty plea, while others couldn’t help but make fun of the underwear angle.
“It would appear underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has filed his last brief,” tweeted CBS News producer Charlie Kaye.
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