Will co-operation pay off for would-be NYC subway bomber?
Posted May 1, 2019 1:13 am.
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NEW YORK — The ringleader of a thwarted terror plot to bomb the New York City subways in 2009 is about to find out if becoming a government co-operator will pay off.
Admitted al-Qaida recruit Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO’-lah ZAH’-zee) volunteered valuable information about terror threats during nearly a decade of working with U.S. prosecutors.
Zazi’s co-operation could earn him a far lighter punishment on charges that carry a maximum of life. He’s to be sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn.
The Afghan immigrant admitted in a 2010 guilty plea that he and two friends agreed to travel to Pakistan, where al-Qaeda operatives directed him to stage an attack on U.S. soil.
He made bombs and travelled to New York before abandoning the plan.
Tom Hays And Jim Mustian, The Associated Press
