Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Authorities called it one of the most serious terrorist plots against America since 9/11. On Tuesday, 28-year-old Adis Medunjanin of Queens paid for that ambitious plot. Medunjanin was convicted on terror charges on Tuesday in New York fed court after a 4-week trial exposed the depth of his plots with former high…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man accused of plotting to bomb the N.Y. subway considered himself a prisoner of war after he was arrested in New York last year, an FBI agent testified in court, according to Newsday. FBI agent Farbad Azad testified in federal court that he interviewed bombing suspect Adis Medunjanin at a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mohammed Zazi, the father of the New York subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi, is facing additional charges including allegations of lying and witness tampering, Newsday reported. In a superseding indictment, authorities charged that he tried to destroy evidence after learning in 2009 that his son was under FBI investigation. His son…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a goof that could have been costly. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI warned Port Authority police to search suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi’s car last September when he drove up to the George Washington Bridge that spans the Hudson River. But noooo. Instead, the police waved Zazi, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A co-conspirator in the aborted plot to blow up of the New York subway during rush hour pleaded guilty Friday in Brooklyn federal court. He warned America to stop fighting Islam and blamed the Jews, the New York Daily News reported. At the same time, a prosecutor said in court that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Queens imam who admitted lying to FBI agents in the case of the aborted bombing plot of the New York City subway got a break: he won’t be heading off to prison. A Brooklyn federal judge gave Afghan-born Imam Ahmad Afzali time served, which was four days, the Associated Press…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A remorseful New York imam, as expected, pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to FBI agents in the subway bombing plot. The Associated Press reported that a tearful Ahmad Afzali told the judge that he wanted to help authorities but lied under grilling by the FBI. He had tipped off al Qaeda…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former Denver airport shuttle driver who planned to bomb the New York subway is now a convicted terrorist. Najibullah Zazi, 25, an Afghan native, admitted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn Monday to the plot and said he was recruited by al-Qaida in Pakistan for a “martyrdom plan” against America,…
