In a Brooklyn Courtroom, Terrorists Testify About Subway Suicide Plot
Media Storm Returns to Cadman Plaza for Latest Terror Trial
By Tom Hays Associated Press
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — Three former high school classmates, after getting terror training at an al-Qaida outpost, discussed bombing New York City movie theaters, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the New York Stock Exchange before targeting the city’s subways, a Brooklyn prosecutor said yesterday at the trial for one of the men.
Once back home, Adis Medunjanin and the others formed a sleeper cell of would-be suicide bombers that in 2009 nearly pulled off one of the most chilling terror plots since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said Assistant U.S. Attorney James Loonam. The terror network valued them for their U.S. passports, which allowed them to slip back into the United States and “blend in” until it was time to strike, he said.