Arrests of 2 men in NY part of inquiry into bomb plot
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January 9, 2010, Saturday
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TWO men were arrested yesterday in the investigation of a bomb plot targeting New York City that previously led to charges against an airport driver.
The arrests in New York of Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to Special Agent Richard Kolko, who declined to comment further.
There were no immediate details on the charges against the men, according to Kolko and Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the United States attorney's office in the city's Brooklyn borough.
Nardoza said the men were expected to appear in court later yesterday.
Medunjanin's attorney said the FBI seized his client's passport on Thursday. Robert C. Gottlieb said the search warrant indicated the passport was sought as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
The airport driver in Colorado, Najibullah Zazi, previously pleaded not guilty to that charge. He is accused of getting al-Qaida training to build homemade bombs to attack New York City.
Federal investigators questioned Medunjanin, a Bosnian immigrant, and Ahmedzay, a US citizen -- who lived in the same neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens where Zazi used to live -- months ago in the terrorism probe. Their photographs were among four shown to Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam accused of tipping off Zazi that New York police detectives were looking for him, according to Afzali's attorney.
Gottlieb has said FBI agents seized computers and cell phones from Medunjanin's apartment last autumn but later returned them.
Gottlieb said the FBI confirmed the arrests for him yesterday morning, many hours after they occurred. Gottlieb said he didn't know what charges the men faced.
The arrests in New York of Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to Special Agent Richard Kolko, who declined to comment further.
There were no immediate details on the charges against the men, according to Kolko and Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the United States attorney's office in the city's Brooklyn borough.
Nardoza said the men were expected to appear in court later yesterday.
Medunjanin's attorney said the FBI seized his client's passport on Thursday. Robert C. Gottlieb said the search warrant indicated the passport was sought as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
The airport driver in Colorado, Najibullah Zazi, previously pleaded not guilty to that charge. He is accused of getting al-Qaida training to build homemade bombs to attack New York City.
Federal investigators questioned Medunjanin, a Bosnian immigrant, and Ahmedzay, a US citizen -- who lived in the same neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens where Zazi used to live -- months ago in the terrorism probe. Their photographs were among four shown to Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam accused of tipping off Zazi that New York police detectives were looking for him, according to Afzali's attorney.
Gottlieb has said FBI agents seized computers and cell phones from Medunjanin's apartment last autumn but later returned them.
Gottlieb said the FBI confirmed the arrests for him yesterday morning, many hours after they occurred. Gottlieb said he didn't know what charges the men faced.
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