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| 2 Qaeda-linked suspects arrested; one crashes car on Whitestone Bridge |
| 2010-01-08 |
| Two men who traveled to Pakistan with Najibullah Zazi were arrested early Friday morning in New York. "Early this morning Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were arrested by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York as the result of an ongoing investigation," FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said. The full list of charges will be released later Friday but sources said one of the men was charged with non-terror-related holding charges and is awaiting terror-related charges. The second man was charged with terror-related charges. Zazi was arrested in September 2009 and accused of planning to carry out acts of terrorism against the United States under the direction of al Qaeda. The FBI said he had received instruction at an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. Medunjanin's attorney said the FBI seized his client's passport on Thursday. Robert C. Gottlieb said the search warrant indicated the passport was sought as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. After feds took the suspect's passport, the food-cart worker bolted and crashed his car on the Whitestone Expressway. Medunjanin is already on the no-fly list and has been watched by feds for months. The investigators tailed him, but Medunjanin -- a 25 year-old Bosnian immigrant who reportedly accompanied alleged terror bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi on a trip to Pakistan in 2008 -- sped down the Whitestone Expressway. While driving erratically, he called 911 and made threatening comments, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Near 20th Avenue, Medunjanin rear-ended another car and tried to run away, but FBI agents tackled him, sources said. The airport driver, Najibullah Zazi, previously pleaded not guilty to that charge. He is accused of getting al-Qaida training to build homemade bombs to attack New York City. |
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