Suspected Nigerian Underwear Bomber Pleads Guilty!

Suspected Nigerian underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has pleaded guilty to counts against him including six criminal counts of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of 289 people, attempted destruction of a civilian aircraft, placing a destructive device on an aircraft, and 2 explosive possession charges all for allegedly trying to blow up an American Northwest Airlines airplane. It goes to show that all his parents’ money educating him wasn’t a total waste after all, because he had enough sense to plead guilty to the charges.

If one was to think about it, he made the best decision; becauseas a suicide bomber and you don’t successfully carry out your mission, what are you going to do? Your career is over! It’s like 007 not accomplishing a mission, even though what he was asked to do was almost mission impossible considering how strict things have gotten with air lines since 911. If you don’t succeed on such a mission, you are of no use to the people who sent you nor your intended victims or anyone else for that matter. I don't think he really understood that the suicide bombing career has a very short lifespan.

It’s a dammed if you do and damned if you don’t career choice. So, Umar is actually very lucky to be alive. Maybe he was misguided and didn’t understand the magnitude of what he was doing. Maybe he was just a young hot blooded man with a diminished sense of fear for his own safety and for the many lives he intended to end on that flight. Only God knows what was going through his mind as he tried to carry out his plans.

Anyway, all that is in the past and in any case he is probably better off in an American jail where he’ll live out his days recovering from his wounds, exercising, watching TV, and making license plates, all at the American tax payer’s expense of course. That’s much better than him dying young as a “martyr” and taking so many other lives with him. So,  I can appreciate his parents’ relief that he didn’t die or take others along with him, as I know no parent prays to see their child’s grave.