\n\tThe cooperation by Zazi suggests prosecutors hope to expand the case and bring charges against other suspects in his case and possibly other terror probes. At the time of Zazi\u2019s arrest, Attorney General Eric Holder called the case the most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
\n\tAmid the debate over whether alleged al-Qaida and other terror suspects should be tried in civilian courts, federal prosecutors have sought to demonstrate that they can persuade suspects like Zazi to cooperate and provide more reliable information without coercion.<\/p>\n
\n\tOne of the people familiar with the Zazi case told the AP that Zazi decided to offer the information after being warned that his mother could face criminal immigration charges.<\/p>\n
\n\tZazi\u2019s father was charged earlier this month with trying to get rid of chemicals and other evidence. But it appears he was cut a break: After initially demanding that he be jailed in Brooklyn without bail, prosecutors agreed to a deal on Feb. 17 releasing him on $50,000 bond and allowing him to return to his home in suburban Denver.<\/p>\n
\n\tBy contrast, bond for a Queens imam charged with lying to the FBI about phone contact with Zazi when Zazi was in New York was set at $1.5 million. A friend of Zazi, New York cab driver Zarein Ahemdzay, was jailed without bail on a similar lying charge.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnother one of the people said that Zazi told prosecutors that he made roughly two pounds of a powerful and highly unstable explosive called triacetone triperoxide, or TATP.<\/p>\n
\n\tCourt documents indicate that Zazi and others bought acetone \u2014 nail polish remover \u2014 and other ingredients that can be used to make TATP. The same explosive was used by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2001 and the terrorists who carried out the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 people.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn those instances, TATP was not the main charge; it was the detonator. The 1.5 grams in Reid\u2019s show was supposed to help detonate the plastic explosives aboard a jetliner, and it was used to set off a mixture of black pepper and hydrogen peroxide in London.<\/p>\n
\n\tExperts has said the TATP in the Zazi case was most likely going to be just the detonator.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut in each of those earlier instances, TATP was not the main charge \u2014 it was the detonator. It was supposed to help detonate the plastic explosives in Reid\u2019s shoe aboard a jetliner, and it was used to set off a mixture of black pepper and hydrogen peroxide in London.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe FBI\u2019s New York office and the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Brooklyn declined comment on Monday.
\n\tAuthorities say Ahmedzay and another New Yorker charged in the case, Adis Medunjanin, traveled to Pakistan with Zazi in 2008. Medunjanin has pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and remains jailed.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe three men, former high school classmates in Queens, are scheduled to appear in federal court in Brooklyn on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n
\n\tOfficials earlier confirmed reports week that Zazi\u2019s uncle had been arraigned on a felony count in secret \u2014 a sign that he also could be cooperating.
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Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The key suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York City with homemade bombs has begun cooperating with investigators and is preparing for a possible plea deal, two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation said Monday. Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado airport shuttle driver, has begun talking to authorities and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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