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FBI Makes an Arrest in a Case of Domestic Terrorism
The Department of Justice says this was a case of domestic terrorism, that the plan would simulate the kind of bombings that took place in Europe. Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan was arrested last week . He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction .
By Conan Nolan • • 1 min readThe Department of Justice says this was a case of domestic terrorism, that the plan would simulate the kind of bombings that took place in Europe. Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan was arrested last week. He entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Investigators later described this as an advanced stage of a plot to detonate explosives made from beauty supply chemicals. The arrests come amid a flurry of other terrorist cases, including that of Michael Finton, a California-born convert who used the name Talib Islam, and Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian. But those cases apparently pale in comparison to what Zazi had planned, according to prosecutors.
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Conan Nolan
Reporter, KNBC Television
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
James Gordon Meek
Washington Correspondent, New York Daily News
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Paul Wilkinson
Chair of the Center for the Study of Terrorism, University of St. Andrews
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