“The FBI said Zazi, arrested in Colorado on Saturday, has admitted being trained in ‘weapons and explosives’ last year at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan. And sources told The News for the first time that he admits he was out to kill.”
New York Jihad Plot Update: “Cops, feds ransack Queens storage sites for Qaeda bomb-making materials,” by Alison Gendar, James Gordon Meek, John Marzulli, Rocco Parascandola and Corky Siemaszko for the New York Daily News, September 22 :
Detectives were combing Queens storage facilities on Monday for stockpiled explosive chemicals that Al Qaeda terror thugs planned to use to bomb New York, sources said.
At the same time, the Daily News has learned that prime terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has confessed he was a jihadist hell-bent on murderous mayhem, the sources said.
NYPD investigators, in coordination with the FBI, hit chemical and fertilizer companies looking for customers who bought bulk and paid cash – and they were also showing up at storage centers in Long Island City.
Investigators believe they were going to use the units to mix chemicals for explosives.
“They’re full on, and still going full bore,” a counterterror official said of the bomb hunt.
The Department of Homeland Security at the same time has issued a nationwide bulletin asking cops to look at storage facilities.
“Operation Nexus” took on an extra urgency after raids on Queens apartments Zazi visited turned up knapsacks and cell phones. The exact targets are not known, but the find raised the specter of simultaneous blasts like the 2004 attack that killed 191 commuters in Spain.
ABC News reported that investigators believe that there were three teams of four terrorists involved in the planning.
A senior counterterror official told The News, however, that nobody knows for sure who else is out there – or whether the plot is disrupted….
The FBI said Zazi, arrested in Colorado on Saturday, has admitted being trained in “weapons and explosives” last year at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.
And sources told The News for the first time that he admits he was out to kill….