Posted on 09/25/2009 12:35:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A federal judge ordered a Colorado man transferred to New York on Friday to await trial, a day after a grand jury in Brooklyn charged him with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction.
The suspect, Najibullah Zazi, 24, was to be held without bail pending his transfer to New York, Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer ruled in Denver. United States Attorney David M. Gaouette said Mr. Zazi would be arraigned in Eastern District Court in Brooklyn on Saturday or Monday.
Mr. Zazi, a shuttle bus driver, has been jailed since last week in Denver, charged with acquiring and preparing explosive materials like those used in the mass transit bombings in London in 2005.
Mr. Zazi traveled from Colorado to New York on Sept. 10, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors have not made clear whether they believe that Mr. Zazi, a legal resident who was born in Afghanistan, intended to strike in New York City, Denver or elsewhere. In court on Friday, United States Attorney Tim Neff gave the strongest indication yet that Mr. Zazi had planned an action in New York City on or around the anniversary of 9/11. He said evidence pointed to “a chilling, disturbing sequence of events that suggest the defendant was intent on making a bomb and being in New York on 9/11 for the purposes of using such an item.”
Mr. Neff added that e-mail traffic gathered by government investigators showed “the defendant was in the throes of making a bomb and intending to prefect his formulations.”
The 12-page detention memorandum that the lead prosecutor, Jeffrey H. Knox, filed on Thursday did not detail the precise location of the intended attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
New York City terror attack apparently was set for Sept. 11
And this related thread has some detail:
Najibullah Zazi's Terror Case May Be Moved to New York( Prosecutors asking ... this Friday morning
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