"Nyah, nyah!"
Posted on 09/20/2009 12:42:30 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Federal authorities arrested an airport shuttle bus driver and his father in Colorado and another man in New York City on Saturday night, charging them with lying to investigators about an alleged terrorist plot to detonate an improvised explosive against an unknown target in the United States.
Acting swiftly late Saturday after a week in which investigators worked intensely in New York and Denver to put together a case, F.B.I. agents arrested Najibullah Zazi, 24, his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, who both reside in Aurora, Colo., and Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, who lives in Flushing, Queens.
The arrests indicated the case was rapidly accelerating and provided for the first time — in a sometimes confusing week of events — an explanation of why authorities were investigating the men and provided details about the alleged plot still under investigation in the United States, Pakistan and elsewhere.
In a statement issued early Sunday, David Kris, the chief of the Justice Department’s national security division, said: “The arrests carried out tonight are part of an ongoing and fast-paced investigation. It is important to note that we have no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack.”
Affidavits filed in the case said that during a search of the younger Mr. Zazi’s rental car on Sept. 11, agents found a laptop computer that contained an image of nine pages of handwritten notes. The notes, according to affidavit, “contain formulations and instructions regarding the manufacture and handling of initiating explosives, main explosives charges, explosives detonators and components of a fusing system.”
Last Wednesday, the affidavits said, when agents interviewed Mr. Zazi in Denver, he falsely said he had never seen the handwritten notes and told agents that he had not written the notes.
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Obama will just stream-line it, take retainer and send them to Bermuda for free.
There is no Constitutional right for anyone to emigrate into this Nation. None.
Whew! ‘Glad the NYT didn’t make the unpc mistake of calling these “amish” guys muslims. It may, after all, offended all those puritans at CAIr.
I’m glad the Feds are on top of it.....
Obama doesn’t get it but the FBI and CIA does....
It would destroy the NFL and all other sporting events.
I’m at the KC Chief’s game right now.
We always need to be vigilent. Geo Bush said it right. We have to be on duty 24-7.
If we do not start PROFILING and not hiring anyone with Islamic names for airline-related jobs, we deserve another 9-11.
>>>> Federal authorities arrested an airport shuttle bus driver <<<<
Muslims have had a monopoly on ground transport at Dulles for at least the last 10 years. Dulles supports all international travel for DC.
I had a bizarre experience with one of the Dulles cabbies back in June 2001. Didn’t recall it until some months after 9/11, and then reported it to the FBI, but they thought it was a little “stale” by that time.
My lingering belief is that some Muslims in Northern Virginia knew something was being planned prior to 9/11.
These are arrests under the new federal ‘catch 22 law’ that they also used for Scooter. Essentially, if they ask you if you did something they believe you did, even some legal act, and you say ‘no’, they can convict you for lying to them. It’s quickly gone from being an added charge in complex cases to being the only charge in cases that are still in the investigative phase. It’s sort of becoming the ‘charge of convenience’ now. Hopefully they’ll find some actual substantive crime to charge them with soon.
No, there is nothing in the first amendment to keep us from barring people from entering the states, or any amendment(except in liberals minds).
"Nyah, nyah!"
bump!
Thanks for the ping.
My pleasure. :’)
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