[NY Daily News] Video footage shows terror suspect Najibullah Zazi and several cohorts trying to rent trucks in Colorado the week before the 9/11 anniversary, it was reported Wednesday.The men were captured on security videotapes asking about the trucks in a Colorado U-Haul International office, according to KUSA-TV Denver.
U-Haul International spokeswoman Joanne Fried told the local station that FBI agents seized security videotapes of Zazi who was with two or three other men inside the rental location in suburban Aurora.
Sources said Zazi and the others asked how they could put down a deposit on trucks, but left and never came back.
Two associates of Zazi - but not the terror suspect himself - tried to rent a U-Haul in Queens on Sept. 9.
In the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, American terrorists used rental trucks packed with explosives to level a federal building, killing 168 people.
In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed Wednesday she weighed raising the color-coded terror alert as the FBI chased Zazi. "We thought about it and rejected it because we didn't have, in the Zazi investigation, any kind of a specific location, time, threat that, in our review, would justify actually raising the color code," Napolitano told Congress.