Witness in “Underwear Bomber” Trial Says He Heard Someone Yell: “Hey Dude, Your Pants Are on Fire!”

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — If it hadn’t have been so potentially deadly and scary, Nigerian terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Christmas day Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in 2009 might have made a good Saturday Night Live skit. Witness Michael Zantow, who was flying to Wisconsin to visit his ailing mom from…

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Detroit Feds Score Victory; Judge Rules Incriminating Statements of Underwear Bomber Admissible

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds in Detroit scored a victory in a pretrial battle against the man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber.” The Detroit Free reports that U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds ruled Thursday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s incriminating statements he made to the FBI after the 2009 incident can be used in trial….

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Underwear Bomber Wants Change of Venue

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the “underwear bomber” isn’t going down without a fight — despite the overwhelming evidence against him. The Detroit News reports that  Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is asking a federal judge to change his trial to another state, saying he can’t get a fair trial in Michigan because…

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FBI Memo Says Interrogators Can Delay Reading Miranda Warning to Terrorist Suspects

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI memo issued in December says investigators can interrogate domestic-terror suspects longer without giving them a Miranda warning, according to a  Wall Street Journal report by Evan Perez. The FBI memo  said the policy applies to “exceptional cases” where investigators “conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to…

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