Word: zazie
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...This much is clear: when Zazi returned to the U.S. in January of this year, law-enforcement agencies began keeping track of him. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...After his bomb training in Pakistan, Zazi returned to New York City and then moved to Aurora, joining relatives in a house on East Ontario Drive, a few doors down from the chief of police. Why Aurora? The answer may be as simple as the low cost of living, the presence of a few relatives and the familiar terrain. The dry plains, thin air and faraway peaks bear no small resemblance to northern Pakistan and Paktia province. Zazi passed a background check to qualify as an airport-shuttle driver, and if he was notable for anything, it was his appetite...
...Except by then, Zazi wasn't. It's unclear exactly when the authorities first listened in on Zazi's phone calls, but sometime around late August, according to an intelligence official briefed on the case, he was heard talking "about chemical mixtures and other things." At that point, the FBI shifted into high gear. Agents quickly picked up the trail and discovered, according to court documents and other sources, that Zazi and at least three associates were shopping for chemicals at beauty-supply stores in the Denver area using stolen credit cards. At the Beauty Supply Warehouse on East Sixth...
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...Agents also found evidence that Zazi had booked a room with a kitchenette at the Homestead Studio Suites a couple of miles south of the cosmetics store. When FBI technicians examined the room, they scraped traces of acetone, found in nail-polish remover, from the vent over the stove - indicating that someone had been cooking a bomb...