IMAGE: The sentence, which includes a separate visa-fraud charge to which Zazi previously pled guilty, is well below the 30-years-to-life sentence recommended by prosecutors. PHOTO: FILE ]
NEW YORK, USA:? A Colorado man was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison on Friday for lying to investigators who were racing to stop his son from carrying out a plot to bomb New York City subways in 2009, and for persuading family members to help destroy key evidence of the plan.
Mohammed Wali Zazi, 56...Read Full Story
Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez aka Jamie Paulin, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam . A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included “STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!”
On Sept. 11 2009 Jamie Paulin-Ramirez suddenly left Leadville Colo. a small town in the Rocky Mountains for Denver then for New York City , to meet and marry a Muslim man she connected with online...Read Full Story
NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - The trial of a man accused of obstructing an investigation into a plot to bomb New York City subways may not make clear to New Yorkers the details of what authorities say could have been a devastating attack. Najibullah Zazi , 26, has been called as a defense witness in the trial for his father Mohammed, 55. The elder Zazi is charged with destroying evidence and obstructing a federal investigation into his son's plot to bomb the New York City subway system near the...Read Full Story
Two more men were charged Thursday in an alleged Al-Qaeda-linked plot to bomb New York's subway system last year. Zarein Ahmedzay, a taxi driver, and Adis Medunjanin, a building supervisor, were charged in federal court in New York as co-conspirators to Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan immigrant who pleaded guilty Monday in the alleged plot. The two "together with others, including Najibullah Zazi, did intentionally conspire to use one or more weapons of mass destruction against persons and...Read Full Story
The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he tried to get rid of chemicals and other evidence, prosecutors said. FBI agents had arrested Mohammed Wali Zazi this month at his home in a Denver suburb after a previous charge, lying to the government, was dropped. An indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Zazi of conspiring with others to destroy or hide...Read Full Story
Mohammed Zazi, father of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado resident convicted in New York of planning a subway terror attack, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison today for obstruction of justice (lying to the FBI), conspiring to destroy his son's chemicals, goggles and paper masks (stored at his brother-in-law's house) and visa fraud. The visa fraud pertained to his falsely stating on on a visa application for his nephew that his nephew was his...
His son, Najibullah Zazi, pleaded guilty in February 2010 to supporting al-Qaeda and conspiring to ... to lie to agents that were probing the matter in 2009. “To this day he still rejects the government’s view of Najibullah and his case ...
Mohammed Wali Zazi, whose son Najibullah plotted to bomb the subway, could get up to 40 years in prison for destroying evidence and lying to cops, according to the Associated Press (via Wall Stre...
THE FATHER of Al Qaeda terrorist Najibullah Zazi was sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for obstructing the probe of his son’s plan to detonate bombs in Manhattan subway trains. Mohammed Wali Zazi was convicted last summer by a Brooklyn ...
THE FATHER of Al Qaeda terrorist Najibullah Zazi was sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for obstructing the probe of his son’s plan to detonate bombs in Manhattan subway trains. Mohammed Wali Zazi was convicted last summer by a Brooklyn ...
NEW YORK _ The father of subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi was sentenced to 4 { years in prison in his obstruction of justice case in Brooklyn federal court on Friday. Mohammed Wali Zazi, 56, a former New York City taxi driver who moved to Colorado, was ...
The father of subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison in his obstruction of justice case in Brooklyn federal court on Friday. Mohammed Wali Zazi, 56, a former New York City taxi driver who moved to Colorado ...
His son, Najibullah Zazi, pleaded guilty in February 2010 to supporting al-Qaeda and conspiring to ... to lie to agents that were probing the matter in 2009. “To this day he still rejects the government’s view of Najibullah and his case ...
NEW YORK—A New York City man accused in one of the most serious terror plots since the Sept. 11 attacks has pleaded not guilty to a revised indictment. Adis Medunjanin and others are accused of trying to recruit someone identified only as ...
Najibullah Zazi (b. 1985 (age 23–24)) is a citizen of Afghanistan and legal resident of the United States who was arrested in September 2009 as part of the 2009 U.S. Al Qaeda ...
The Justice Department says Najibullah Zazi has now been been indicted in the Eastern District of New York on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against ...
Najibullah Zazi, the Denver man believed to be the central figure in a terror plot against the New York City transit system, has officially been indicted on charges of conspiracy ...