More crap coming from Britain

That would be Naseer of the Zazi case, the plot that was disrupted when police stopped Zazi’s car as it entered New York at a routine(?) drug checkpoint, and then allowed him to go on his way after tailing him across the country. 

Can you say SET-UP PATSY, readers? I knew ya' could.

"Terror suspect pleads not guilty" Associated Press, January 08, 2013

NEW YORK — A suspect in an alleged Al Qaeda plot against the New York City subways also was part of a terrorism campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway, US prosecutors said.

Abid Naseer pleaded not guilty Monday. The judge ordered Naseer, extradited last week from Britain, held without bail.

Prosecutors aim to prove Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance, and was in contact with other alleged Al Qaeda operatives. He was one of 12 people arrested in a counterterrorism operation in April 2009, but all were subsequently released without charge. They were ordered to leave Britain, but Naseer avoided being deported to Pakistan after a judge ruled it was likely he’d be mistreated.

Naseer was rearrested in 2010 at the request of prosecutors in Brooklyn, where an indictment named him as a codefendant with Adis Medunjanin.

US authorities allege Medunjanin, Najibullah Zazi, and Zarein Ahmedzay traveled to Pakistan in 2008 to seek training from Al Qaeda. Zazi admitted he tested explosives in Denver before going to New York to try to carry out the scheme. 

After they threatened his family.

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"Briton gets 3 years in missile sting" January 10, 2013

EL PASO — A federal judge sentenced a British businessman to nearly three years in prison Wednesday for trying to buy surface-to-air missile parts from undercover US agents to resell to Iran.

Christopher Tappin, 66, pleaded guilty in November to aiding and abetting to export defense materials in a deal that opened the door for him to serve part of his sentence in Britain, near his ailing wife. US District Judge David Briones said Wednesday that he would recommend that the Department of Justice approve any request by Tappin to be transferred to the United Kingdom.

Tappin read a brief statement during the sentencing hearing in which he apologized for the crime. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed not to oppose any request by Tappin to serve part of his 33-month sentence in Britain.

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