Brooklyn Terror Trial: Subway Bomb Plotter Blamed America for 9/11
CADMAN PLAZA EAST — The admitted mastermind of a foiled plot to bomb New York City subways testified yesterday that he wanted to fight jihad in Afghanistan after coming to believe that the U.S. government was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Najibullah Zazi told a federal jury that he and two friends made an oath about five years ago to leave their Queens neighborhood and “fight alongside the Taliban” after listening to the recorded sermons of radical Muslim clerics.
The men had decided that complaining about American intervention in Afghanistan wasn’t enough, he said.