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...Najibullah Zazi is everything the FBI says he is, then the Afghan-born Denver airport-shuttle-bus driver represents a new kind of menace for the U.S. His arrest is a double blessing: it may have thwarted a terrorism plot, and it could give counterterrorism officials a goldmine of information on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the state of the global jihad...
...FBI believes he and others were plotting to bomb targets in the U.S. and, on Thursday, Zazi was indicted on charges of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. He and his father Mohammed have denied involvement in any terrorism plot. The evidence turned up by the FBI will be especially interesting to counterterrorism experts - not least because of Zazi's origins. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...When Zazi traveled to New York ahead of the anniversary of 9/11, the FBI as a precaution alerted the NYPD. That's when officers from the NYPD's intelligence unit consulted Afzali. "It looks like they did this on their own initiative - they really trusted this Imam," says the law-enforcement official. "But if they'd consulted with the bureau first, they'd have been told not to talk to anybody." (Read "Probe Prompts 'Preventive' Terrorism Raid...
...premature swoop on the Zazis and Afzali has left the FBI scrambling to gather evidence of a terrorism plot, according to some reports. Afzali's lawyer has denied that his client spilled the beans to the Zazis and has accused the FBI of pursuing Afzali to cover up for its mishandling of the case...
...Deputy Commissioner Browne said he could not comment on specifics of the case and would not be drawn into a discussion about whether the NYPD got the FBI's go-ahead to consult Afzali. The department and the FBI "do excellent work together in disrupting terrorism," he said...