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Man plotted suicide bomb on NYC subway: prosecutor
Source: Reuters
Man plotted suicide bomb on NYC subway: prosecutor
By Jessica Dye
NEW YORK | Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:51pm EDT
(Reuters) - The lone suspect to face trial in what prosecutors call an al Qaeda-inspired plot to attack the New York City subway system fully intended to put his jihadist training to work by suicide bomb, an assistant attorney told a jury on Monday.
But Adis Medunjanin, 28, a U.S. citizen born in Bosnia, had backed out of the plot to which two other men have pleaded guilty, his defense lawyer countered in opening arguments in a case Attorney General Eric Holder called one of the most serious threats to security since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Medunjanin is on trial in Brooklyn federal court for what prosecutors described as a conspiracy between him and two close friends from high school in the New York City borough of Queens to carry out attacks in 2009 at the behest of al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, seeking to exact revenge for United States' treatment of Muslims.
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By Jessica Dye
NEW YORK | Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:51pm EDT
(Reuters) - The lone suspect to face trial in what prosecutors call an al Qaeda-inspired plot to attack the New York City subway system fully intended to put his jihadist training to work by suicide bomb, an assistant attorney told a jury on Monday.
But Adis Medunjanin, 28, a U.S. citizen born in Bosnia, had backed out of the plot to which two other men have pleaded guilty, his defense lawyer countered in opening arguments in a case Attorney General Eric Holder called one of the most serious threats to security since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Medunjanin is on trial in Brooklyn federal court for what prosecutors described as a conspiracy between him and two close friends from high school in the New York City borough of Queens to carry out attacks in 2009 at the behest of al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, seeking to exact revenge for United States' treatment of Muslims.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-usa-newyork-security-idUSBRE83F0ZE20120416
