Plane bomb accused talked and talked

For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked – to US Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.

He spoke openly about what he had done and why, and provided valuable intelligence, US officials said in a series of interviews which spell out for the first time the details of Abdulmutallab’s arrest and questioning on December 25.