Note, toward the end of this excerpt, the clear implication from the Daily News that authorities are overreacting. An update on this story. "FBI unit set for more anti-terror raids in Queens; Colorado home raided," by James Gordon Meek, Judith Crosson, Rocco Parascandola, Alison Gendar and Larry Mcshane for the New York Daily News, September 17 (thanks to Benedict):
The elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team is poised to make more anti-terror raids in Queens, sources told the Daily News.
The discovery of cell phones and back packs raised fears that terrorists were planning a Madrid-style subway bombing plot, sources said.
FBI agents with bomb-sniffing dogs Wednesday raided the Colorado apartment of an Afghan national linked to Al Qaeda and a plot to attack the New York City subway system.
Simultaneously, authorities swarmed over a nearby home believed to belong to a relative of Najibullah Zazi, hauling out boxes of evidence.
And Zazi, 25, met with investigators at FBI headquarters in Denver and provided a DNA sample, a fingerprint and writing samples, his lawyer said.
"My client is not involved in any terror plot," lawyer Arthur Folsom said. "He answered every question they had."
The searches in Aurora, Colo., came as the NYPD and an elite FBI team poised for additional raids in Queens in a hunt for bomb-making materials, sources told the Daily News.
Earlier Queens raids turned up nine knapsacks and cell phones, raising concerns about bombers detonating simultaneous blasts as they did in the 2004 attack that killed 191 commuters in Spain.
Bombers in the 2005 London subway attack that killed 56 people also used knapsacks. An FBI counterterrorism bulletin issued Monday cited the British terrorist attack.
Two men who lived in one of the Queens apartments raided Sunday night said a tenuous connection to Zazi had become a nightmare.
"They [the NYPD] keep coming back," Naiz Khan said last night. "They don't tell us why they're here. They took my cell phone and a knapsack that was to be a gift to a child and left."
His roommate Akbari Amanullah, 30, a cabbie, added: "We just wish it would stop."...
His roommate Akbari Amanullah, 30, a cabbie, added: "We just wish it would stop."...
I just wish Islamic invasion would stop.
"We just wish it would stop."...
SO WE CAN GO ON UNNOTICED AND WORK ON OUR DIRTY DEEDS.
"His roommate Akbari Amanullah, 30, a cabbie, added: "We just wish it would stop."..."
So are we! (the islamic invasion)
It is time Americans realized that there is a price for electing muslim-puppets like Clinton, Bush and Obama. Islamists and Jihadists know that in American system of government, the president/commander-in-chief is the head of the executive branch. What better than pocket the president? Hence, Clinton, Bush and Obama.. all Saudi puppets/muslim apologists. In their administrations, there are newly enovated ways to support Jihad. Clinton suppoprted ihadists in Bosnia, Bush was a Saudi puppet and Obama has taken muslim apology to a whole new level.
In the mean time, same complaining Americans have disregarded patriots like Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul.
For relatively-challanged Americans, Tom Tancredo called for restricting immigration while Barry appeased Muslims in Cairo, if Americans can see the difference.
As they say, in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.
I hope they took that DNA sample through his nose.
If you have five family members and twenty backpack and twenty cell phones then you need to explain why.
I'd really like more details on this as I am concerned that the FBI were forced into playing their hand too early leading to no prosecution and more cries of victimhood from the moslems.
Christ on a crutch.
Hi y’all. I’m traveling tomorrow and will be in an undisclosed location on course somewhere near enough to consider visiting the Big Apple during the next two months. Maybe not so much now. Not that I believe these islamofacists are smart enough, but these clowns may not be the only simultaneous operation in progress. Letting these one’s take the fall could distract the authorities long enough to plant the big one. Not to be a glass-half-empty kinda fella, just sayin’…
Good news is, my accommodations will have internet, so I’ll still be able to read and perhaps post over the next two months.
Unlike the New York Daily News, this site actually used one of the two verboten PC MC MSM words:
“Agents expected to find bomb components — chemicals or timers or fuses. Instead, they turned up a frightened Muslim family and a bomb-making manual. The key suspect they hoped to grab had already left.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112931804
And here I was happy to finally get a Home Depot in my home town.
I don't know, is obama(pbuh) and company devious enough to use the FBI in order to win sympathy for mohammedans and/or discredit the resisters of Jihad? I know it sounds overly conspiratorial, but it crossed my mind.
"...and Obama has taken muslim apology to a whole new level." -- Alert.
Right, that's because "My Muslim faith" Hussein IS a Mohammedan.
Hussein claims to be a Christian - yet, all he does is promote Islam! Uh, it's obvious...
Do you remember this?....
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-search.cgi?search=1000+cell++phones&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20
and just why would Muslims be traveling from Michigan to Texas to buy up cell phones?
Hussein claims to be a Christian - yet, all he does is promote Islam! Uh, it's obvious... darcy
Readers will remember that Bush took christian votes as a 'man of faith', only to slap a bleeding America with Islam, on 09/17: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911islamispeace.htm
Point is, barring few patriots like Tom Tancredo, American politician have a record of licking the boots of Saudi Arabia and Islam, at the cost of America. After Regan, presidents/commanders-in-chiefs/executive branch has served Islam.
Americans, who voted these traitors to office, be damned!
Check it for yourself.................
Someone asks you what you are, and if the conversation is going that way you intuitively respond the religion you were raised in and what you think you are. For example, if you were Jewish you wouldn't say Catholic or if Hindu you wouldn't say Jewish. Obama said what he is. Case closed, game over, zip up the fly!
From the article - "They took my cell phone and a knapsack that was to be *a gift to a child*".
Who gives a kid a knapsack as a present?
I am afraid I have been reading here long enough to wonder what kind of 'gift' it might have been.
I remember a bunch of Arab Muslims who loaded up a retarded kid with a schoolbag full of bomb and sent him through an IDF checkpoint. Luckily for him the IDF soldiers were on the ball and the deadly schoolbag was taken from him before it could be detonated. It's entirely likely the kid didn't even *know* he'd been picked to be a murder-martyr. After all: someone who doesn't *know* they're carrying a bomb, is less likely to give off those subtle vibes that will alert the wary.
I can fully envisage some Mohammedan in New York City sending their teenage kid off to high school on the subway with a backpack containing just a little extra something lovingly packed by mummy and/ or daddy...unbeknownst to the kid. And detonating it, using a cell phone call.
The US Government eagerly lets in Afghan nationals who plot to bomb the NY subway, and by the same token the US Government then tips off the Egyptian authorities in order to keep out Coptic Christian babies. This is yet more proof of the saying "Those the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad". And the US Administration is stark raving mad.