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| Underwear Bomber goes Rage Boy™ at start of trial |
| 2011-10-05 |
| A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear made a defiant political outburst Tuesday, demonstrating again why his courtroom behavior will be closely watched throughout the trial where he's representing himself. Ah. Acting as his own lawyer? Enjoy Florence, asshole... "The mujahadeen will wipe out the U.S. — the cancer U.S.," said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, scowling as he referred to Muslim guerrilla fighters. When marshals removed his handcuffs, he also claimed that a radical Muslim cleric killed last week by the American military is still alive. "Anwar is alive," Abdulmutallab said, referring to American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in an air strike in Yemen just days ago. Abdulmutallab, a well-educated man from a wealthy African family, has spent two years in custody and rarely causes a ripple in court. But Tuesday's outburst was his second in two weeks. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #11 NS, and the same result as the Eichmann trial. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-10-05 18:12 |
| #10 Rage boy should get a glass booth just like the one Eichmann had at his trial. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-10-05 15:32 |
| #9 Any of you buzzards old enough to remember the Chicago 7? I think the fashionable shackles, manacles and gags should be brought back. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-10-05 14:52 |
| #8 Did his voice crack? Well educated and wealthy? Impossible! In all seriousness, this video the prosecution wants to show has me a bit confused. I mean, why such lenghts for what should be an open/shut case? Can the prosecution not convey in words what happens to in-flight airplanes when a bomb goes off? Does it set a precedent for future theory-based video as evidence and how subjective is that potential going to be allowed to explore? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-10-05 11:46 |
| #7 Nah - I'll be tempted to spam RB just for the 'shock' value. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-10-05 10:55 |
| #6 ..after having sold several transmitters to family members of the victims. Or hook it up to the Rant's spam catcher. One spam, one shock. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-10-05 10:42 |
| #5 Hang 'em. Unlawful combatant, attempted commission of an atrocity. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2011-10-05 10:07 |
| #4 I know they've fallen out of fashion, but electrical shock belts for unruly defendants did much to improve courtroom decorum for a while. I gather the trouble was that each belt had several remote controls, any of which could zap the defendant a good one, but you couldn't tell which one did it, the judge's, the prosecutor's, the defense counsel's, or the bailiff's. Or perhaps the grinning electronic technician who had hacked the frequency, sitting there with a big grin in the gallery, after having sold several transmitters to family members of the victims. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-10-05 09:15 |
| #3 By extension, ditto SADDAM HUSSEIN + ZARK = ZARQHAWI, etal. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-05 02:42 |
| #2 HHHMMMMM, first OSAMA, now ANWAR AL-AWLAKI is still alive .... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-05 02:40 |
| #1 since he likes raging hot underwear... some fire ants need to visit his. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-10-05 01:53 |