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Feds Charge 5, Link NY Plot to al-Qaida Scheme in UK

(July 7) -- Last year's foiled plot to attack New York City's subway system was tied to a similar al-Qaida plot in the United Kingdom, a Justice Department indictment charges. The indictment, unsealed at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City today, says that al-Qaida's "external operations" program in Pakistan...

Feds Say NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked to al-Qaida

NEW YORK (July 7) -- A failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway system last year was part of a larger al-Qaida terrorist conspiracy that included a similar attack planned in England, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. In an indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, prosecutors added several...

Report: Top al-Qaida Agent Met With Subway Bomb Plotter

(July 1) -- One of the three men involved in the thwarted suicide plot to bomb New York City subway lines last year consulted with a senior al-Qaida operative in Pakistan who is considered one of the most wanted terrorists in the nation, according to reports. Pakistani-born Najibullah Zazi, 24, and one of his high school...

Two Charged in NY Subway Terror Plot

(Feb. 25) -- The federal dragnet that led to the arrest and guilty plea of Najibullah Zazi in a plot to set off bombs in New York's subway system has resulted in two more suspects being charged. Arraigned in a Brooklyn U.S. district court on Thursday, Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, both 25, pleaded not guilty to...

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Adis Medunjanin Man Faces Terror Trial

There's no dispute that Adis Medunjanin and two of his former high school classmates from Queens packed up and traveled together to Pakistan in 2008.

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05/10/12 Civilian courts for terror trials Source: The Republican and Herald - Pottsville PA The conviction last week of a would-be subway bomber in a Brooklyn federal court is the latest evidence that civilian courts are up to trying terrorism suspects.
05/07/12 Civilian courts are effective in terror trials Source: CitizensVoice.com - Wilkes-Barre PA The conviction last week of a would-be subway bomber in a Brooklyn federal court is the latest evidence that civilian courts are more than equal to the task of trying terrorism suspects.
05/06/12 NYC man convicted in thwarted subway bomb plot Source: Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas NV In what authorities called the most serious terror threat since the Sept. 11 attacks, a New York City man was convicted Tuesday of plotting with two of his former classmates at a Queens high school to attack the subways as suicide bombers.
05/04/12 Silber: How the NYPD Foiled a Plot to Bomb the Subways Source: The Wall Street Journal In mid-September 2009, three men from Flushing, Queens, acting under the direction of al Qaeda, conspired to attack the New York City subway system during morning rush hour.
05/04/12 Ryan James Girdusky: Source: KNUS 710 - Denver CO This week, failed terrorist Adis Medunjanin was found guilty of attempting to blow up the New York City subway system.