The Queens Jihad is not over. 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 16 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
The elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team is poised to make more anti-terror raids in Queens, sources told the Daily News.
The search Wednesday 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.
An earlier Queens raid turned up nine knapsacks and cell phones, raising concerns about bombers detonating simultaneous blasts like 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.
FBI agents with a search warrant arrived Wednesday at the home of Najibullah Zazi, 25, who one day earlier had protested his innocence in the apartment’s front doorway.
His bold denials amazed some counterterrorism sources, who described the bushy-beared Zazi as a figure well-known to investigators.
“Zazi has certainly had some bad connections to people overseas,” said a source familiar with the ongoing case.
Zazi had traveled to Pakistan, refuge for many Al Qaeda leaders, before his New York trip last week. There was a “strong suspicion” he attended a terrorist training camp there, WCBS-TV reported….
In New York, police sources said they had e-mails, wiretaps and a confidential informant tying Zazi to the plot. The suspect was spotted in a Queens mosque last week and also was seen in lower Manhattan, the sources said.
In a mosque? But didn’t the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims rise up in righteous indignation at his activities?
Zazi managed to lose his FBI tail after he was warned about the federal attention, the sources said….