Our cousins across the pond discovered something while investigating a possible terrorist event to be launched by the al-Qaeda group in Manchester and Liverpool. The terrorist were planning a Easter bombing campaign earlier this year when the investigators discovered someone by the name of Najibullah Zazi who was in New York. Najibullah Zazi is 24 years old and was born in Paktia, Afghanistan, and has lived in the Untied States of America since the age of seven years old.
Zazi was set to be a part of a group that was to attack the New York subway using truck bombs or suicide bombers with the same explosives used on July 21st in London.
Zazi had allegedly film parts of Grand Central Station on his mobile phone and that they had bought the ingredients for the bombs.
Most of the men were arrested in Manchester and were a part of a complex network of cells directed from Pakistan. British officals admit that they uncovered Zari’s part in the planning through “intercepted communication.” The plot was unmasked after an email address that was being monitored as part of an operation known as “Operation Pathway.”
That was put into jeopardy when British counter-terrorism head Bob Quick was pictured walking into Downing Street displaying top secret documents. So “Operation Pathway” arests were moved up.
A key arrest was the arrest of a US citizen – Bryant Neal Vinas, age 26; in Pakistan back in November 2008. Bryan was calling himself “Bashir al-Ameriki” and had met with Rashid Rauf, the British al-Qaeda commander behind the trans-Atlantic bomb plot. Vinas had been in Pakistan since the year 2007 where he has admitted he was receiving training from al-Qaeda and agreed to become a suicide bomber, plotting to blow up a train on the Long Island Railroad inside Pennsylvania Station.
From there, the cells were rolled up with arrests made in Belgium in December 2008, and in April of this year when Manchester Police arrested 12 Pakistani students after intercepted emails about girls and cars that were allegedly code for a planned attack.
No bomb-making equipment was found and the men were released without being charged – but 6 of those students will be deported. They come from Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, which is the one nextdoor to Afghanistan.
Zazi returned to the US in January this year and then moved off to Aurora, Colorado where he was an airport shuttle bus driver. It is being alleged that he and others have bought large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products, which are key ingredients for homemade bombs.
On September 6th and 7th, Zazi rented a hotel suite in Aurora where tests made by the FBI later found acetone residue above the stove. It seems from intercepted communications, that he was having trouble with the formula since he was asking for the proper proportion of flour that he needed. Then he drove to New York on September 10 this year but was tipped off that New York police detectives were making inquires about him and quickly flew home.
The FBI conducted a series of raids four days later.
US Attorney General Eric Holder described the alleged plot as “One of the most serious in the United States since September 11, 2001.”
Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano said, “We can now say those that share al-Qaeda’s beliefs are now within the US itself.”
As an aside, the British discovery came at the right time – since the US had threatened to sever intelligence links over the release of the Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi. US authorities were happy to receive this bit of intelligence that help prevent a catastrophic attack.
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REf. Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009.(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6529436/British-spies-help-prevent-al-Qaeda-inspired-attack-on-New-York-subway.html)
Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009. By Duncan Gardham. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6533021/British-intelligence-cracks-trans-Atlantic-terrorist-network.html)
picture was from AP.
Our cousins across the pond discovered something while investigating a possible terrorist event to be launched by the al-Qaeda group in Manchester and Liverpool. The terrorist were planning a Easter bombing campaign earlier this year when the investigators discovered someone by the name of Najibullah Zazi who was in New York. Najibullah Zazi is 24 years old and was born in Paktia, Afghanistan, and has lived in the Untied States of America since the age of seven years old.
Zazi was set to be a part of a group that was to attack the New York subway using truck bombs or suicide bombers with the same explosives used on July 21st in London.
Zazi had allegedly film parts of Grand Central Station on his mobile phone and that they had bought the ingredients for the bombs.
Most of the men were arrested in Manchester and were a part of a complex network of cells directed from Pakistan. British officals admit that they uncovered Zari’s part in the planning through “intercepted communication.” The plot was unmasked after an email address that was being monitored as part of an operation known as “Operation Pathway.”
That was put into jeopardy when British counter-terrorism head Bob Quick was pictured walking into Downing Street displaying top secret documents. So “Operation Pathway” arests were moved up.
A key arrest was the arrest of a US citizen – Bryant Neal Vinas, age 26; in Pakistan back in November 2008. Bryan was calling himself “Bashir al-Ameriki” and had met with Rashid Rauf, the British al-Qaeda commander behind the trans-Atlantic bomb plot. Vinas had been in Pakistan since the year 2007 where he has admitted he was receiving training from al-Qaeda and agreed to become a suicide bomber, plotting to blow up a train on the Long Island Railroad inside Pennsylvania Station.
From there, the cells were rolled up with arrests made in Belgium in December 2008, and in April of this year when Manchester Police arrested 12 Pakistani students after intercepted emails about girls and cars that were allegedly code for a planned attack.
No bomb-making equipment was found and the men were released without being charged – but 6 of those students will be deported. They come from Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, which is the one nextdoor to Afghanistan.
Zazi returned to the US in January this year and then moved off to Aurora, Colorado, where he was an airport shuttle bus driver. It is being alleged that he and others have bought large quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products, which are key ingredients for homemade bombs.
On September 6th and 7th, Zazi rented a hotel suite in Aurora where tests made by the FBI later found acetone residue above the stove. It seems from intercepted communications, that he was having trouble with the formula since he was asking for the proper proportion of flour that he needed. Then he drove to New York on September 10 this year but was tipped off that New York police detectives were making inquires about him and quickly flew home.
The FBI conducted a series of raids four days later.
US Attorney General Eric Holder described the alleged plot as “One of the most serious in the United States since September 11, 2001.”
Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano said, “We can now say those that share al-Qaeda’s beliefs are now within the US itself.”
As an aside, the British discovery came at the right time – since the US had threatened to sever intelligence links over the release of the Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi. US authorities were happy to receive this bit of intelligence that help prevent a catastrophic attack.
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REf. Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009.(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6529436/British-spies-help-prevent-al-Qaeda-inspired-attack-on-New-York-subway.html)
Telegraph.co.uk. November 9, 2009. By Duncan Gardham. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6533021/British-intelligence-cracks-trans-Atlantic-terrorist-network.html)
picture was from AP.
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi, Najibullah Zazi, Operation Pathway, Pakistan
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