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With Najibullah Zazi formally indicted on terrorism-related charges, a clearer picture is emerging of what the FBI says was a plot to bomb civilian targets in the U.S. Indeed, officials now say this may have been the most dangerous terrorist plot since 9/11. Many of the details revealed in court documents are chilling. The Afghan-born Zazi, who has denied the charges, is accused of buying ingredients for making bombs and of "cooking" an explosive mixture at a motel in Colorado. (Read how the Zazi case may help U.S. intelligence...
...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...
...hard to know if the Taliban has been specifically recruiting Afghans for international operations. If the charges against him are true, Zazi may be no more than "an instrument of opportunity, someone who got in touch with them, who shared their ideology, and whom they thought they could use," says Bokhari. According to the Associated Press, a government document filed in connection with the case states that Zazi on Sept. 6 and 7, tried on multiple times to communicate with another person "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives." "Each communication," the AP quoted the document as saying...
Apart from Zazi's Afghan background, counterterrorism experts will be especially keen to know about his associations in Pakistan. The FBI says Zazi has admitted he spent time at an al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan in 2008, receiving training in weapons and explosives. If that is true, then Zazi could be a very valuable source of information on how al-Qaeda trains jihadis now. What U.S. counterterrorism officials know about jihadi training camps is based mostly on intelligence gleaned after al-Qaeda's bases in Afghanistan were overrun in 2001. Relatively little is known about the camps in Pakistan, which...
...Zazi met or trained with terrorists along the Afghan-Pakistan border, any insights we glean could add considerably to our ever expanding base of knowledge on al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups," says a U.S. counterterrorism official. "That's a good thing for us and very bad thing for our enemies...