DETROIT — The attorney for a Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane for al-Qaida said this morning that the man will plead guilty.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is answering questions from a federal judge today after his attorney told the court he wants to plead guilty on the second day of trial his trial Detroit.

He’s accused of trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas 2009.