FBI raid Queens, NY home in terror investigation

http://twitter.com/breakingnews ^

[Fali_G]

BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters

[Uncle Ike]

Thank you, milford421

[from the report - clarification on meaning of WMD]

According to the Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned a one-count indictment alleging that between Aug. 1, 2008 and Sept. 21, 2009, Zazi knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more weapons of mass destruction, specifically explosive bombs and other similar explosive devices, against persons or property within the United States. The indictment also alleges that Zazi and others traveled in interstate and foreign commerce, used email and the Internet, and that this offense and the results of the offense would have affected interstate and foreign commerce.

http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/najibullah.zazi.indicted.2.1205295.html

[hoosiermama]

ALERT

(Fox News Alert)

NY Grand Jury has indicted Zazi on the charge of ‘conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction’..

[milford421]

You’re welcome Uncle.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the ping. So they are considering high explosives with potential mass casualties, ‘weapons of mass destruction’ now? How come the same doesn’t hold true for Iraq? I guess it doesn’t fit the liberal meme.

[444Flyer]

*Sigh* exactly.

1 down, how many more out there?

[Uncle Ike]

” 1 down, “

I’m not sure it’s ‘down’, yet — I’m not nearly as sanguine as AG Holder that this ‘plot has been disrupted’....

There’re still a LOT of very bad guys that are still at large.....

[PhiKapMom]

Another Freeper and I were talking this morning about the OU BOMBER’s brother and family is in Colorado. Pictures of him looked pretty similar to the ‘suicide’ bomber. After several years, I haven’t met a person here who believes he committed suicide.

[444Flyer]

1 of the wicked removed from the ranks.

[Uncle Ike]

” 1 of the wicked removed from the ranks. “

Sorry - I misunderstood your original post... ;)

Of course I agree with your point... ;)

[444Flyer]

No problem Uncle.;)

[Uncle Ike]

Just heard on FNC —

The NY Imam has been released on bond....

[hoosiermama]

Murdered? Why?

[hoosiermama]

Hmmm is he wired?

[Uncle Ike]

” Hmmm is he wired? “

That would be nice, wouldn’t it??

Unfortunately, all three of the conspirators have lawyered-up, and the fact that LE has gone ahead with the heavy-duty charges is a pretty good indicator that they ain’t making any deals...

[444Flyer]

Will he emigrate to London now?

[hoosiermama]

Wasn’t the Iman once an FBI informant? .....Just because he has a lawyer doesn’t mean he isn’t still working for them...Wouldn’t want to blow his cover.

[Uncle Ike]

” Wasn’t the Iman once an FBI informant? ..... “

He was employed as an informant for NYPD at the time he tipped Zazi off...

There is some question as to exactly where his loyalties lie....

[Uncle Ike]

Heard on FNC —

Zazi (the elder) has been released on $50,000 unsecured bond....

[hoosiermama]

There is some question as to exactly where his loyalties lie....

That's probably a good thing.... He can still gather information and his "cover" has not been totally blown.....OTOH Hope he has a body guard....

[Uncle Ike]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror-indictment25-2009sep25,0,1635064.story

U.S. indicts Denver man in bombing conspiracy

[from deep in the article, snipping a bunch of stuff we already know]

The detention motion also alleges that at least three other men, like Zazi, purchased “unusually large” quantities of hydrogen peroxide or acetone from beauty supply stores in the Denver area — an indication that they were also conspiring to mix the chemicals into homemade bombs, authorities said. And it said that Zazi “and others” flew from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Peshawar, Pakistan via Switzerland and Qatar in August 2008.

It does not identify the men or allege that they too trained in Al Qaeda camps, but some U.S. officials said that they have been urgently pursuing that possibility.

(snip)

As further evidence that Zazi was serious, authorities alleged in the detention memo that they found evidence that he had heated the chemicals on the stove of an Aurora apartment unit he had rented Aug. 28. “Importantly, the bomb-making notes [found on his laptop] contemplate heating the components in order to make them highly concentrated.”

The detention motion alleges that Zazi plotted for more than a year to launch the bomb plot, that he had recently bought some bomb-making supplies from beauty supply stores and that he was looking for “urgent” help in the last two weeks to make homemade bombs. On Sept. 6 and 7, before he set off in a rental car for New York, Zazi tried on multiple times to communicate with another individual “seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives.”

“Each communication,” the detention motion alleged, was “more urgent in tone than the last.”

(snip)