Posted on 09/20/2009 7:38:23 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AURORA, Colorado (CNN) -- Federal agents have charged a 24-year-old Colorado resident, his father and another man with making false statements during an extensive terror investigation that stretches to Pakistan.
Najibullah Zazi is accused of making false statements to officials about an alleged bomb plot in the United States.
The Justice Department said Sunday it is investigating several other people in connection with the plot to detonate bombs in the United States.
Najibullah Zazi and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi -- both originally from Afghanistan -- were arrested Saturday night. They were handcuffed without incident after authorities raided Zazi's home in the Denver suburb of Aurora.
An acquaintance of the two men, Ahmad Wais Afzali, of Queens, New York, was also arrested. Afzali is a legal permanent resident from Afghanistan, as is Najibullah Zazi. Mohammed Wali Zazi is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
"Each of the defendants has been charged by criminal complaint with knowingly and willfully making false statements to the FBI in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism," the Justice Department said in a statement.
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false statements....did they lie about acorn loan?
But did I hear earlier that the authoities have released them already?
Finally!
Funny how the media neglects to report that the 3rd muslim arrested Ahmad Wais Afzali is the head of a Queens mosque who was also a turncoat informant for the NYPD...
you know the patriot act is up for renewal....is anyone investigating fbi interrogation practices?
If we get hit again, its open season. No limit on how many you can bag.
From Fox:
Sept. 11 search of Zazi’s rental car in New York turned up a laptop computer that contained an image of nine pages of handwritten notes, according to court documents filed with the arrest warrant. Those notes included instructions about how to build explosives and detonators, the affidavits state.
Zazi was asked about the notes during FBI interviews last week and said he knew nothing about them, the documents said. Zazi allegedly told federal agents that he must have unintentionally downloaded the notes along with a religious book. He said he deleted it within a few days after realizing it discussed jihad, the affidavit said.
However, federal agents suspect Zazi received the notes via e-mail.
Authorities have found images of the notes in two e-mail accounts with similar passwords. One of the accounts has a nine-digit password that is identical to the password for an e-mail account that Zazi told investigators this week was his, the affidavit said.
Authorities suspect Zazi controls both e-mail accounts that received copies of the handwritten notes, according to the affidavit.
An arrest warrant affidavit says FBI agents intercepted a phone conversation around Sept. 11 in which Afzali, a legal permanent resident from Afghanistan, told Zazi that he had spoken with authorities. “I was exposed to something yesterday from the authorities. And they came to ask me about your characters. They asked me about you guys,” Afzali told Zazi, according to the affidavit.
However, Afzali allegedly lied to authorities about that conversation when federal agents asked him about it Thursday, according to the affidavit.
The department says Mohammed Zazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was interviewed last week by the FBI, lied when asked if he knew anyone by the name of Afzali and said he didn’t. The FBI said it had wiretapped a conversation between Mohammed Zazi and Afzali during Najibullah Zazi’s visit to New York.
Nailed...Book him....reflecting back to Hawaii 5-0...as best I can recall.
How can we believe the FBI? It sounds like racial profiling to me. I think we need to investigate the FBI. Everyone knows that it’s a racist organization, headed by the KLAN, and ran by the MAN! </sarcasm>
New York City Terror Plot and the Post-9/11 Catch-22
Terror Suspect's Computer Said to Show Sports Stadiums, Fashion Sites
Zazi breaks off talks with FBI, calls reports of terror ties 'nonsense'
Feds probe alleged terrorists who tried to rent giant truck in suspected Al Qaeda bomb plot
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Now connect all the little dots......
Muslims in Colorado Uneasy Over Terror Inquiry
The facts as now revealed should reduce their Unease....
You forgot to mention Danno, as in, “Book ‘em, Danno.”
Laughable, but Dennis Kucinich was just on Fox saying this is all a plot to get the Patriot Act renewed. They should make him wear a tinfoil cap whenever he talks. He needs whatever protection that will afford him.
Thanks...now I remember...LOL!
‘Ahmad Wais Afzali is the head of a Queens mosque who was also a turncoat informant for the NYPD...’
Is this the Queens mosque that burned down Friday?
The fact that they were trying to rent the truck means that they already have the materials for the explosives.
These are exactly the kind of guys that should be receiving voltage to the private parts, bamboo shoots under the fingernails, etc, etc. These guys were well into carrying out a terrorist attack.
Liberals and weak-kneed wimps be damned. Extract the information from them by any means. Once done, kill them.
You are going to get labeled as an extremist ..... but that seems about right to me!
Being former military, a member of the NRA, and a conservative, DHS already has my name on the list.
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