Man who plotted NYC subway bombing to be released after nearly a decade of cooperation
It has been ten years since Najibullah Zazi and two friends plotted to detonate homemade explosives on the New York City subway system. At the time, then-Attorney General Eric Holder called it “one of the most serious terrorist threats” the nation had faced since Sept. 11.
“Zazi has provided extraordinary cooperation, meeting with the government more than 100 times, viewing hundreds of photographs, and providing information that assisted law enforcement officials in a number of different investigations even where Zazi did not personally know the subjects of those investigations,” federal prosecutors said in their sentencing memorandum.
Zazi said he was no longer the “naive, gullible” person who traveled to Pakistan in 2008 and trained with al-Qaeda. He said it is “unimaginable” to him now what he became involved with and he sought forgiveness. The judge added, when pressed by prosecutors to be thorough, “If you wish to appeal the sentence of the court you should have your head examined.”
Zazi was born in Afghanistan, grew up in Peshawar in Pakistan and came to Queens when he was 14, according to officials. Zazi went to Flushing High School but did not graduate. He operated a coffee cart on Wall Street before a 2008 trip to Pakistan.
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