"Trial in New York City subway plot begins" April 17, 2012
NEW YORK - A man accused of becoming an Al Qaeda operative discussed bombing New York City movie theaters, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, and the New York Stock Exchange before settling on the city’s subways, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
Adis Medunjanin considered the high-profile targets with two of his former high school classmates from Queens, Assistant US Attorney James Looman said in opening statements.
The men “were prepared to kill themselves and everyone else around them - men, women and children,’’ Looman said.
Defense lawyer Robert Gottlieb accused the government of using “inflammatory rhetoric’’ about Al Qaeda and terrorism to prevent jurors “from seeing the truth.’’
There’s no dispute that Medunjanin and his two former classmates traveled together to Pakistan in 2008. But federal prosecutors say the three were homegrown extremists who, under Al Qaeda’s tutelage, came back to the United States and hatched a foiled plot to attack the New York City subways.
Medunjanin, 27, has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, providing material support to a terrorist organization and other charges.
Childhood friends Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay have admitted in guilty pleas that they wanted to avenge US aggression in the Arab world by becoming martyrs.
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"N.Y. man convicted in subway bombing plot; Friends testified they worked with Al Qaeda on plan" by Mosi Secret | New York Times, May 02, 2012
NEW YORK - A Queens man was convicted of a host of terrorism charges Tuesday for participating in a plot led by Al Qaeda to stage suicide attacks in the New York subways, an effort that prosecutors said was stopped just days before three former high school classmates planned to set off homemade bombs during rush hour.
The two-week trial offered a rare look at the evolution of a terrorist plot and the workings of Al Qaeda training camps....
Where are the latrines?
The trial, in US District Court in Brooklyn, put on full display the government’s efforts to prosecute terrorists in criminal court....
Then why did I only get two articles when I get Edwards' jury is deliberating day after day?
Federal authorities have called the subway plot one of the most serious threats to national security since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but the trial concluded without incident.
Except that THEY NEVER FOUND ANY EXPLOSIVES!!!!!!!!!!!
The jury deliberated for a little more than a day, sending several notes to Judge John Gleeson to seek clarification of the charges, before finding Adis Medunjanin guilty on all counts. When the foreman read the verdict Tuesday afternoon, Medunjanin, who rarely showed emotion during the trial, raised his palms upward and said a prayer. He faces life in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for Sept. 7.
The case against Medunjanin centered on the testimony of his friends from Flushing High School, Zarein Ahmedzay and Najibullah Zazi, who had already pleaded guilty to their involvement in the plot and hope for leniency during sentencing. They testified about the steps they had taken to carry out the attack.
They said Medunjanin participated every step of the way, from the decision to travel to the Middle East to fight with the Taliban to the decision to return home to commit jihad. They said he also helped choose the location where they would set off their bombs.
Translation: they turned on and sacrificed their friend because they were coerced, maybe even tortured.
During the trial, a lawyer for Medunjanin, Robert C. Gottlieb, argued that his client had grown apart from his friends and lost contact with them when he returned to the United States two months before his friends did. Gottlieb said Medunjanin had never planned to follow through with the attack.
But prosecutors argued that he remained so dedicated that when he feared he was going to be arrested, months after the plot was uncovered, he fled in his car and crashed into approaching traffic in a last-ditch attempt to commit a suicide attack.
The guy crashes trying to flee and the AmeriKan media paints it as a suicide attack?
Also see: Stuck in New York City Traffic
Medunjanin called 911 moments before, screaming, “We love death more than you love life.’’
The trial also featured testimony from two men convicted in separate terrorism plots. Those men, Saajid Badat, a British man who was supposed to bring down an airplane as the second so-called shoe bomber, and Bryant Neal Vinas, a Long Island man who took up arms and fought against US troops in Afghanistan, were called as expert witnesses about Al Qaeda to corroborate facts about the terrorism camps where they both trained.
And now he is testifying at trials as an expert witness?
And that first guy must be working for MI-5 or MI-6.
But the core of the prosecution’s case came from Medunjanin’s two high school friends.
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Related: The Zionist MSM's Zigs and Zags in the Zazi Case
The latest move sure left a lot unsaid, didn't it?
