Friday, January 8, 2010

New York City has captured our attention - FBI arrests two in New York, Adis Medunjanin, Zarein Ahmedzay, in Zazi bomb ...

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The suspects, Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, were part of an ongoing FBI task force investigation, Special Agent Richard Kolko said.


FBI agents Thursday night raided the Queens apartment of Medunjanin, who was said to have close ties to Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado airport driver the feds say is the mastermind of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up New York, law enforcement sources said.


Zazi has pleaded not guilty to charges of getting Al Qaeda training to build homemade bombs to attack city targets.


Medunjanin's attorney, Robert Gottlieb, said the FBI seized his client's passport on Thursday. Gottlieb said the search warrant indicated the passport was sought as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.


There were no immediate details on the charges against the two men, according to Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the Brooklyn U.S. attorney.


Medunjanin was being questioned by counterterrorism agents who were trying to get him to cough up information about Zazi and the Al Qaeda cell - the first uncovered in the U.S. after 9/11.


Zazi, 24, an Afghan national was nabbed after sweeping raids on Queens apartment buildings in September. The raids turned up evidence of bomb-making materials, and Zazi was charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.


Medunjanin, 25, who is believed to have accompanied Zazi to an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2008, fled in his car Thursday when he came home and saw agents swarming over his apartment, sources said.


He made it as far as Whitestone, Queens, where he crashed on the Whitestone Expressway about 4 p.m.


The circumstances surrounding the wreck were unclear, but sources insisted Medunjanin did not crash because he was speeding away from agents in pursuit.


Medunjanin, was treated for minor injuries and released from New York Hospital Queens in Flushing.


Medunjanin, a graduate of Flushing High School and Queens College, was grilled by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force before his arrest, sources said.


Zazi told FBI agents in September that he had received Al Qaeda training in weapons and explosives on a trip to Pakistan in 2008, though he denied any involvement in a current bomb plot.


Medunjanin traveled to the same terror camp with Zazi in 2008, a law enforcement source confirmed.


Sources confirmed that Medunjanin's passport was seized during the search at his apartment, which was one of four apartments raided last September after Zazi and the bomb plot surfaced.

13 comments:

  1. Queens arrests:Fed official says when agents took passport of Adis Medunjanin he yelled about Allah, drove off at high rate speed & crashed

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  2. 2 more NYC arrests in Zazi terror plot invest. Zazi is Aurora man under investigation for terrorism. Does this worry you?

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  3. Headline (senryu)
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    "2 Men Arrested/
    In Connection With Zazi/
    Terror Inquiry/"

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  4. Two men in Queens are now under arrest on federal charges in connection with the ongoing investigation of the Najibullah Zazi terror plot.

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  5. FBI arrests two Queens men in connection with Najibullah Zazi terror plot, which allegedly targeted NYC subway system - WNBC

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  6. FBI arrests two Queens men in connection with Najibullah Zazi terror plot, which allegedly targeted NYC subway system.

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  7. FBI arrests 2 Queens men in connection w/ Najibullah Zazi terror plot, which allegedly targeted NYC subway system - WNBC (via BreakingNews)

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  8. BreakingNews: FBI arrests two Queens men in connection with Najibullah Zazi terror plot, which allegedly targeted NYC subway system - WNBC

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  9. Two men in Queens are now under arrest on federal charges in connection with the ongoing investigation of the Najibullah Zazi terror plot

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  10. wcbstv: 2 men arrested in Queens Friday morning in connection with Najibullah Zazi terror plot

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  11. FBI has seized Adis Medujanin's passport, an associate of Najubullah Zazi. He then was in a car wreck as le were tracking him. More 2 come.

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  12. Today I have been eating ice cream with Zazi because every two need reassurance ! I love you so much ! :D

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  13. Today jai been eating ice cream with Zazi because every two need reassurance! I love you so much! :)

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