er man by FBI agents in connection with a suspected terrorist plot.Reporting from Washington - Federal authorities arrested a Denver-area airport shuttle driver, his father and another man late Saturday in connection with a suspected plot to launch a terrorist attack within the United States, the Justice Department said early today.
Najibullah Zazi, 24, and his father, Wali Mohammed Zazi, 53, were taken into custody at their home in Aurora, Colo., and charged with "knowingly and willfully making false statements to the FBI in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism" during several days of questioning, according to a federal complaint.
FBI agents in New York arrested Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, of Flushing, N.Y., on similar charges. Authorities say Afzali is a New York Police Department informant who may have tried to warn the younger Zazi about the FBI's interest in him.
In court filings, FBI agents said authorities are investigating Zazi, Afzali and others "in the United States, Pakistan and elsewhere, relating to a plot to detonate improvised explosive devices" in the U.S.
The court filings, including sworn affidavits from FBI agents, described travels by Zazi to Pakistan and his trip from Colorado to New York this month in a rented car.
They also said a Sept. 11 search of Zazi's car in New York turned up a laptop that contained images of handwritten notes on how to make and handle explosives and detonators. The court filings said that Zazi, identified as "Individual A," admitted as part of a possible plea deal that during his 2008 trip to Pakistan he "attended courses at an Al Qaeda training facility" in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where he received instruction on subjects such as weapons and explosives.
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