'NOT GUILTY' PLEA OF ABDULMUTALLAB, ILL-ADVISED AND UNWISE!

Wonders shall never end and so it is that the Northern Nigerian Fulani terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab, plead 'not guilty' to a crime which he committed before well over 289 witnesses? May be he is still thinking that the justice system in America is like what his filthy rich Islamic-charities supporting father could readily influence. Unbeknownst to him here is not Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Katsina or Funtua! This is America, the land of the free and home of the brave; and where justice is truly blind and cases are decided not on who you are but on the merit, based on available facts and evidence. To terrorist Umar Mutallab, Icheoku asks, on what basis did you make your 'not guilty' plea or are there any other circumstances not known to the watching world on which some scintilla of doubt would arise to raise some reasonable doubt in your favor? Artist depiction of Magistrate Mark Randon taking the plea of terrorist Umar abdulmutallab.

Any sane mind with some modicum of knowledge of the law, knows that his fate is a sealed one and only an obstinate terrorist like him would in the circumstances, want to drag-out a case which has no chance in hell of finding in his favor and does not need much to prove his guilt. At least his other brother-in-terrorism, Richard Leeds, the shoe-bomber, was fanatical enough not to waste any-body's time going through a trial and pleaded guilty to his own charges straight away. Icheoku thought that Abdulmutallab was 'brave' and would have, like other Guantanamo terrorists, elected to be summarily executed; rather he chose to go through a trial? A trial which he failed, denied and/or refused to put those 289 passengers on Flight 253 through; and he did not allow them to plead their case before he summarily condemned them to untimely violent death, which he were about to carry out when the good Lord intervened and stopped him through an observant passenger. Now why does he seek what his wicked soul is incapable of offering or giving to any one? The only plausible answer is because he is a coward and a coward shall he remain forever, for surreptitiously setting off a terrorist act inside America. Happily enough the court has indulged him the trial opportunity which he sought by accepting his 'not guilty' plea; at least it proves that America is not the monster which his 'extremist brothers in terrorism' has made it out to be.

Be that as it may, the 'not guilty' plea lacks merit as he was caught red-handed committing the crime for which he has now plead to a six count charge indictment. In a most perfect situation, a "not guilty plea by reason of insanity' would have been his best possible bet and which could have availed him; but not in the present circumstance when he nearly destroyed our airplane alongside the lives of over 289 passengers and crew in flight. He was fully well aware of his actions and also the wrongfulness of it. He also fully intended to produce the desired outcome, which motivated him to act accordingly and methodically took necessary preceding steps to produce it. It was a journey, planned and executed with a clear destination in mind. First he went through an epiphany, converting to an Islamist extremist, and in the process, buying line, hook and sinker the warped teaching that the 'Great Satan' lives in the west and we must bring them down?

Then he abandoned his college education and went full steam, diving into the boiling waters of Islamic fanaticism; and later proceeded to their citadel of terror in Yemen to perfect his training and indoctrination. After graduating as an al-queida 'air-soldier', he received the 'blessings' of the al-queida mullah in Sanaa Yemen and flew out to Ghana en-route to Nigeria from where he embarked on his infamous journey-of-no-return to America with a stop-over in Amsterdam. It is on record that he bought a one-way ticket to America with cash, signifying his intention never to return back again to his family, since being a suicide-bomber he expected to die in the explosion? It is also on record that he left Nigeria for America with only a carry-on, believing, why waste things other living persons both from his immediate family and his extended al-queida brothers could use long after his body is evaporated in the resulting explosion? He meticulously put on the bomb-laden diaper and passed through various airports securities with such a weapon of mass destruction, fully aware of his prohibited criminal behavior but refused or failed to report same or hand himself in to the authorities? He sat through 14 hour flight and with few minutes to landing, readied himself for 'martyrdom'; igniting the fuse or whatever it was that would have triggered the explosion. Above here right is the Nigerian government delegated lawyer, Mrs Maryam Uwais, chaperoned by two body-guards who rescued her from a curious and furious media, who mistook her for the mother of the terrorist and nearly drew blood with intrusive questioning?

Legally speaking, Umar completed the crime and should be held liable for it; but we all must wait until the court says so, being the only one institution to pronounce and adjudge him guilty. The fact that his intended consequence was averted by the act of a watchful passenger does not exculpate him or in any way excuse his crime. So on the question of his mental state, Icheoku says, a mechanical engineering student and/or graduate of London University College, who planned and followed through with the above detailed terrorist plan and who has never had any history of mental disease nor have ever been treated for one, is certainly not insane! If he pleads coercion, what steps did he take during his two months 'terrorism-graduate' program in Yemen to inform authorities? No, he was fully aware of what his intended bargained outcome was and went ahead anyways. Abdulmutallab's court appointed lawyer red-haired Ms.Miriam Seifer, here left in glasses.

Luckily too, he is a full grown adult, fully responsible for his actions including the terrorist act of December 25, 2009. As observed earlier, his father's Nigerian influence is but a flatulence in America; so Icheoku asks again, what is the game plan here that facilitated his 'not guilty' plea? To the best of our knowledge, none exists and he was expected by all reasonable persons to accept his actions, plead guilty and face the consequence. That way, may be his stay for life without the possibility of parole in a 300 feet underground maximum security prison somewhere in Colorado could have been shortened to 75 years or with granted few visitation rights. But being the terrorist from hell he is, he want to drag the process on; but this folly will only succeed in infuriating many more people world over. A smart terrorist would have cut down on his losses by taking it straight on the jaw with a 'GUILTY PLEA!'

It will be recalled that the diaper-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was arraigned yesterday before Eastern District U.S Magistrate Mark Randon, in Detroit for his crimes. His parents were a no-show and so were his al-queida terrorists friends at his arraignment; they failed to show up to support their son and captured brother-terrorist? Once again lonely and alone, he sat through the court's proceedings with only his court appointed lawyer to provide him some legal support? But who wants to be identified as a terrorist's parents or supporters or even friends, since any one of them is arrestable for aiding and abetting a terrorist? Icheoku wished however that the parents who begot this vampire made themselves available to World journalists, to explain why they did not throttle this animal before he reached puberty and before he could dream up this madness. But they were spared the bullet as they cleverly holed up in their Abuja Nigeria hide-away, very long far away from the shores of America.

Anyway, his fate as we know it, is permanently and forever sealed; now that we caught him before he could kill us or do us real harm. As the president rightly said, we are at war with al-queida and this prisoner of war ain't going anywhere soon; he will surely be our guest for a very long long time; away from his families both in Nigeria and the al-queida proving grounds of Yemen. But should his lawyer, Miriam Seifer have advised or signed off on this 'not guilty' plea of her terrorist client, in view of the mountain of evidence stacked up against him and the emotions of another terrorist bombing on our soil? Icheoku does not think so and is of the opinion that the plea was dumb, stupid and not well thought out or otherwise miserably considered!