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Terror Suspect in U.S. Bought Bomb Ingredients

[New York Times] David Johnston and Scott Shane - Documents filed in court against Najibullah Zazi contend he bought chemicals needed to build a bomb and in doing so took a critical step made by few other recent terrorism suspects in the U.S. Zazi, a legal immigrant from Afghanistan, attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, received training in explosives, and stored in his laptop computer nine pages of instructions for making bombs from the same kind of chemicals he had bought. Dr. Jarret Brachman, a consultant to the government about terrorism, said the case was "shaping up to be one of the most serious terrorist bomb plots developed in the United States," one resembling the London public transit attacks of July 2005. "You don't manufacture homemade TATP explosives unless you want to kill people and destroy infrastructure," he said.
2009-09-25 08:00:00
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