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| 2 (more) Men Arrested in NYC Terror Investigation |
| 2010-01-08 |
| Two men were arrested Friday in the investigation of a bomb plot targeting New York City that previously led to charges against an airport driver. The arrests in New York of Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to Special Agent Richard Kolko, who declined to comment further. There were no immediate details on the charges against the men, according to Kolko and Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in the city's Brooklyn borough. Adis Medunjanin was arrested on charges related to a terror raid on a N.Y. mosque, was involved in a car accident in Queens. He was being followed by FBI when the accident occurred and he was caught as he fled the scene! Nardoza said the men were expected to appear in court later Friday. 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. The airport driver in Colorado, Najibullah Zazi, previously pleaded not guilty to that charge. He is accused of getting Al Qaeda training to build homemade bombs to attack New York City. Federal investigators questioned Medunjanin, a Bosnian immigrant, and Ahmedzay, a U.S. citizen -- who lived in the same neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens where Zazi used to live -- months ago in the terrorism probe. Their photographs were among four shown to Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam accused of tipping off Zazi that New York police detectives were looking for him, according to Afzali's attorney Gottlieb has said FBI agents seized computers and cell phones from Medunjanin's apartment last autumn but later returned them. Gottlieb said the FBI confirmed the arrests for him Friday morning, many hours after they occurred. Gottlieb said he didn't know what charges the men faced. The lawyer, who insists Medunjanin has done nothing wrong, said officials at a hospital had told him that authorities had taken Medunjanin into custody after he was treated for minor injuries from a traffic accident. "They intentionally hid him from his lawyer and his family," Gottlieb said. The name of Ahmedzay's attorney was not immediately on record. |
| Posted by:Sherry |