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Home Front: WoT
Terror suspect bought, cooked bomb-making materials in Aurora, CO
2009-09-25
The father of an Afghanistan-born terror suspect was released from jail today and may be called upon to testify against his son in New York City. Mohammed Zazi was released just after 1 p.m. from Denver federal court and reported to a separate federal building where pre-trial services are located. Federal officials declined to say where he will be living. It was unclear where he would stay because landlords have moved to evict him and other relatives from their apartment.
The American version of bulldozing the housing compound.
He will be monitored electronically, and must check in with pre-trial release officials regularly. He did not respond to questions from reporters as he was released.

Najibullah Zazi, 24, appeared this morning in a Denver courtroom for a scheduled hearing on whether he could be detained without bond. After the indictment was unsealed in New York, the Denver federal court hearing was postponed until Friday and will become a hearing to remove Zazi to the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York. If convicted, Zazi could face life in prison.
No perpetual virgins or pearl-faced boys to serve him in Paradise following martyrdom. Only a lifetime locked away from his lovely Afghan wife in Peshawar, wondering if she remained loyal.
Investigators now have pieced together a picture in which Zazi's father Mohammed Zazi, 53, moved from New York to Arapahoe County to join his son in July 2009. The two moved into an apartment on East Smoky Hill Road, the document said.

During July and August, "Zazi and others associated with Zazi purchased unusually large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products from beauty supply stores," the document said. Surveillance videos and receipts indicated he bought six bottles of Liquid Developer Clairoxide from one beauty supply store in Aurora. That product contains high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.

Records from a nearby hotel in Aurora indicated that Zazi checked into a suite on August 28, the document said - a suite that included a stove. The FBI investigators found that Zazi rented the same hotel suite in Aurora on Sept. 6 and 7, where subsequent FBI testing revealed the presence of chemical residue in a vent above the stove, the document said.

The government in the documents also said that "individuals associated with Zazi purchased unusual quantities of hydrogen and acetone products in July, August and September 2009 from three different beauty supply stores in and around Aurora." One bought a one-gallon container of a product containing hydrogen peroxide and a bottle of acetone. Another bought acetone in September. Another bought bottles of Ion Sensitive Scalp Developer, according to the document.

Bomb-making notes later found on Zazi's laptop, seized from his rental car by police in New York, included information about heating bomb components to make them highly concentrated, the document said. "A lawfully-authorized search" of the laptop indicated that, on Sept. 8, "Zazi searched the internet for locations of a home improvement store" in Queens and then searched a store's website for muriatic acid, a diluted version of hydrochloric acid - before renting a car.
From the comment thread:
by Boscoboss on Today, 12:08 pm
Think this is related to those very curious rash of break-ins in Aurora a few weeks ago? Folks breaking into beauty parlors, barbers, nail salons?

I could not figure why folks would bother breaking into such places at night where there would be little or no cash kept overnight.
More here:
Zazi was looking for "urgent" help in the past two weeks to make explosives, an indictment charged Thursday. The document says that on Sept. 6 and 7, Zazi tried to communicate with another individual "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives."

"Each communication," the papers say, was "more urgent than the last."

A second, unrelated indictment unsealed Thursday in the same court charged a Brooklyn man with supporting terrorism in what authorities say is an investigation. An indictment alleges Betim Kaziu traveled to Pakistan this year to try to receive training from a militant group linked to al-Qaida, and tried to go to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight against U.S. forces there. Kaziu was to be arraigned later Thursday. Prosecutors did not have the name of his attorney.
And final detailsfrom the NY Post:
The handwritten notes on Zazi's computer contain details for an explosive known as Triacetone Triperoxide -- the same used in 2001 by "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid and in 2005 in the London train bombings.
Oooooh, Mother of Satan confirmed. No wonder the Feds are looking for the stash with such concentration. That's touchy stuff.
Federal authorities claim that Zazi was potentially close to making a bomb after "acetone residue" was found in a vent above his stove, according to court papers.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I'm a little surprised these mooks are out on bail.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-09-25 01:52  

#1  Think this is related to those very curious rash of break-ins in Aurora a few weeks ago? Folks breaking into beauty parlors, barbers, nail salons? I could not figure why folks would bother breaking into such places at night where there would be little or no cash kept overnight.

Are there other pockets of petty crime around the country? A 26 foot truck and all those backpacks sound like quite a big plot in need of lots of precursors, especially if a coast to coast attack was planned.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2009-09-25 01:06  

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