NEW YORK POST: NY Qaeda bares chilling plans for 'martyr' massacre
A former Queens man yesterday confessed that he was trained by al Qaeda -- and that he had plotted to blow up the city's subway system around the anniversary of 9/11 last year.
Najibullah Zazi, 25, told a Brooklyn federal court judge how he had driven to New York City from Denver, where he lived, on Sept. 10, 2009, with a detonator in his bag and bomb-making plans on his laptop to launch a "martyrdom" massacre at the behest of al Qaeda operatives.
"It meant that I would sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the US military was doing to civilians in Afghanistan," the Afghan native said. "I would sacrifice my soul for the sake of saving others."
The Flushing HS dropout detailed the steps leading up to the plot -- which was to culminate with him and several unidentified co-conspirators setting off the homemade devices in the subways on Sept. 14, 15 or 16 in what US authorities called "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001."
Zazi, who pleaded guilty yesterday to weapons-of-mass-destruction and terrorism charges, cut a deal with federal authorities after investigators threatened to jail his mother on an immigration charge, sources said.
The terrorist said that when he initially went to Pakistan in 2008, "our plan was to go to Afghanistan and fight with the Taliban. [But] while we were in Peshawar, we were recruited by al Qaeda instead." >>> Janon Fisher | Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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