And the notes were in his handwriting! So he just accidentally downloaded bomb-making instructions while downloading a "religious text." Then he accidentally copied out these bomb-making instructions in his own handwriting -- in a peaceful way, of course, and without any idea of what he was doing!
And NPR doesn't tell us what "religious text" comes with downloadable bomb-making instructions. I am sure that John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion or St. Basil the Great's On the Holy Spirit often come complete with a full bomb-making manual. But of course to report on what religious text it really was, and from what religion, and what adherents of that religion might be doing to encourage bomb-making, and how they might find justification for such actions in the texts and teachings of that religion -- all that would be beyond NPR's scope!
An update on this story. "Terror Plot Suspects To Appear In Federal Court," by Dina Temple-Raston and Linda Wertheimer for NPR.com, September 21 (thanks to Choi):
The three men the FBI arrested over the weekend in connection with an alleged plot to attack sites in New York and other U.S. cities will appear in federal court later Monday.The man law enforcement officials say is at the center of it all is an Afghan national named Najibullah Zazi, 24, who drives an airport shuttle bus in the Denver area. Zazi says that this is all some mistake. Also arrested were his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, and the imam of a Queens mosque.
Zazi and his father are expected to appear in a federal court in Denver. The imam Ahamd [sic] Wais Afzali, 37, is scheduled to appear in a New York court. All three men have been charged with lying to federal authorities. That offense carries an eight-year sentence.
It is clear that the younger Zazi is the one the FBI is really interested in. Officials close to the case told NPR that there are more charges coming. His arresting papers suggest as much. They were released on Sunday by the Justice Department and, among other things, they say that Najibullah Zazi admitted he trained in explosives at an al-Qaida camp....
What Najibullah Zazi was actually admitting to is unclear. Law enforcement officials told NPR on Friday that Zazi was willing to admit that he'd trained in explosives in an al-Qaida camp, but the stumbling block was Zazi admitting to his role in any attack or plot. The government also wanted his full cooperation. By Saturday whatever they might have been discussing was off the table. Zazi decided not to show up as scheduled for a fourth day of interviews. He was arrested a short time later.
While it might seem far-fetched for authorities to allow Zazi to come and go from FBI headquarters after admitting to a link to al-Qaida, law enforcement officials said they were hoping to draw more suspects out. Having Zazi roaming free provided more opportunity for others involved to make a mistake and, for example, call Zazi.
There have been some other arrests below the radar. Officials tell NPR that six or seven Afghan friends of Zazi's from Queens, N.Y. were arrested last week. It is unclear what they were charged with, but apparently it is in connection with their attempts to rent of a U-Haul truck a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the men went to a U-Haul rental place in Jamaica Queens and asked to rent their biggest truck. But they didn't have a valid credit card. They said they wanted to pay cash. U-Haul said it would need their IDs and the men apparently balked.
It isn't illegal to rent a U-Haul for cash, but when the FBI asked the men about it, allegedly they denied ever having been there. So these men might be in jail for lying to authorities as well. The manager of the U-Haul company allegedly identified the men involved from photographs the FBI showed him.
Some of the evidence collected against Zazi was laid out in arresting documents. Officials say that they had Zazi on a wire tap and other electronic surveillance for some time. They said they have a taped conversation of Zazi speaking with a known al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan.
They found images of handwritten notes on his computer that laid out how to make a bomb and in particular how to put together fuses. Zazi said he downloaded that information by accident when he pulled a religious text off the internet. But law enforcement officials say the notes are in his handwriting....
"Zazi said he downloaded that information by accident when he pulled a religious text off the internet."
Accident? So I guess Zazi was searching the internet "by accident," and came across a jihadist website "by accident," and "by accident" thought "hmmm, yes, I like the idea of blowing up infidels" and "by accident" clicked on his mouse to download this information "by accident."
Definite taqiyya going on here. Huge, stinking, dripping taqiyya.
well at least it was not an work place accident like they have in Palestine
When will the Obama administration realize that this is handled better by ruthless intelligence agents (perhaps using rendition) than by criminal cops? When, as is the case here, the criminal thinks that murdering infidels has been ordered by his god, and the best this world can offer is obtained by murdering infidels, the criminal target will not behave like most rational criminals, with the Hobson choice to talk or be silent hoping to avoid prison. Whatever mosque this adherent of the religion of murder hailed from should be summarily closed down, its leaders should be indicted for conspiracy to commit murder and al immigrata should bring buses to the building scruntinizing its members for deportation.
The defense could argue he popped a couple Ambien and inadvertently waged a somnambulant jihad.
Zazi said he downloaded that information by accident when he pulled a religious text off the internet. But law enforcement officials say the notes are in his handwriting....
Well, to me, it makes sense that he would download this information from the internet while downlaoding religious text. Afterall the Qur'an and any Hadiths would be sent to him with the quoted verses to indicate the date and time that they were to carry out these deeds i.e. Qur'an 9 verse 21 would indicate the 21st of September.
And another verse from the Qur'an or Hadiths would indicate time and possibly place i.e. Tabari IX:22 "The Prophet continued to besiege the town, fighting them bitterly." At 9:22AM you are to besiege the town by placing the explosives on the bridges and in the tunnels so as to block their escape.
Of course this is my theory and I am sure they have many different codes intertwined like an enigma machine.
But it would explain the combination of religious text along with bomb-making instructions.
And of course he wrote the instructions with his hand writing. Why I do not know unless, if captured, they couldn't trace it back to a particular printer.
He probably got it from Al-Kaboom University's website.
Well, folks, this is how it all happened - Zazi is surfing the internet for a version of Q'ran that has not been misinterpreted, and that cannot be misunderstood. On the sidebar, the header, and the footer, for some unknown reasons, are these advertisements by al Quaida, Taliban, and Lashkar-e-Taiba, for bomb making guides with detailed instructions on how to blow up women and children. The ads proclaim their noble goal to establish the religion of "justice and human dignity" in America, which, after all, is founded on the same values as that religion. Attracted by the inviting looks of the virgins in the ad, Zazi moves his mouse over the ads, and accidentally clicks on one of the virgins. Voilà, the file got downloaded. Comprendez vous?
Oh, yes, our time has come!
Surfing the internet for Islamic religious text and you come up with bomb making instructions..
What would you find if you were a really devout Muslim surfing the internet for Islamic religious texts?
Islam doesn't really put out much of that old
"love your neighbor and live peacefully" type of stuff...
Islam does put out a lot of vicious, racist, demonic, vile, hate filled gospel....Islams follows demonstrate this every day in many countries...wherever you find Muslims the quality of life goes down and violence soars....it probably has something to do with their religion...and it is not the fault of the non believers or Infidels...
I believe It is possible to find bomb making instructions while looking up Islamic texts. It's the "accidental" part that is hard to choke down.
Muslims lie.
It probably would have gone something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bGlcDXjSU
courtesy of Jackass movie #2 Ka-Boom! Terror Taxi. Note: This is hilarious, but if you are easily offended by rough language do not click link.
Google "Bible", "Bhagavad Gita", "Zend Avesta", "I-Ching", "Analects of Confucious", "Torah", "Mahabharata", etc. and all kinds of bomb making instructions pop up.
Hmm, and I wonder what sort of religious material he'd be searching for that would so easily be associated with instructions for bomb making. Was it possible that he was reading an online version of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae that happened to have the Anarchist's Cookbook as an appendix? The collected works of Rabbi Moses Maimonides? C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity? The moral sayings of Confucius? A online version of the Book of Mormon that is accompanied with instructions for making a bomb? I mean, every religion is just as likely to commit violence as the next, right?
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he'd trained in explosives in an al-Qaida camp, but the stumbling block was Zazi admitting to his role in any attack or plot.
Ok, that's enough for me. If I meet someone who has spent time with the KKK learning to lynch black people I'm not waiting to see if they are going to actually put it into practice.
Either charge this treacherous scumbag or kick him out of the country.