Suspected NYC bomb plotter pleads guilty.Summary: An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a bomb attack on New York City New York City: see New York, city.New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. pleaded guilty to three counts on Monday, telling the judge he planned to sacrifice himself in a "martrydom operation" An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a bomb attack on New York City pleaded guilty to three counts on Monday, telling the judge he planned to sacrifice himself in a "martrydom operation" by attacking the New York City subway The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority , an affiliate of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit. system in Manhattan. Najibullah Zazi, 25, pleaded guilty to three charges: conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or , conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, and providing material support to the al-Qaeda extremist network. He told the federal court in Brooklyn that he had planned to blow up New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of targets including the underground train system and that he wanted to "conduct mortal operations in the subway line." Zazi said he was ready to "sacrifice myself" in order "to draw the attention to what the United States is doing in Afghanistan." He faces maximum sentences of life in prison for the first two charges and 15 years for the third. However, his plea appears to be part of a bargain in which he could receive a more lenient sentence in return for cooperating with investigators. Zazi was arrested September 20 in Denver, where he worked as an airport shuttle bus driver. Prosecutors say he carried bomb-making instructions in a laptop and had been shopping for large quantities of chemicals found in beauty products that could have been the ingredients for explosives. They also say he received explosives training in Peshawar, Pakistan, a hotbed of al-Qaeda activity. According to prosecutors, Zazi went to New York to prepare the alleged bombing campaign, using weapons of "mass destruction," but left after receiving a tip-off that he was being watched by federal agents. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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