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Associated Press - July 29, 2010 5:24 PM ET
DETROIT (AP) - Michigan's entire congressional delegation has told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano it wants assurances the U.S. will pay for security at the trial of a man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
The 17 lawmakers wrote her Thursday saying her earlier responses were "insufficient."
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO'-mar fah-ROOK' ahb-DOOL'-moo-TAH'-lahb) of Nigeria awaits trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit. He's accused of trying to set off a bomb aboard a flight from Amsterdam on Christmas.
The letter criticizes Napolitano's earlier response that funding for trial security could come from a program that didn't get congressional funding.
Comment was being sought Thursday from Napolitano's office.
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