According an Associated Press report, Zarein Ahmedzay, who is charged in the foiled plot to bomb the NYC subway system will plead guilty in a Brooklyn court on Friday afternoon.
Ahmedzay is the second of three terrorists to plead guilty in the failed plot. The mastermind behind the plot was 25-year old Najibullah Zazi.
Zazi pleaded guilty to plotting the attack on the city’s subway system and is awaiting sentencing in June.
The attacks were to be carried out shortly after the eights anniversary of the 9/11 attacks of the WTC and Pentagon.
Zazi had cooperated with law enforcement officials and has said that he and two others planned to strap bombs to themselves aboard trains at the Times Square and Grand Central subway stations in mid-September of last year.
Zazi initially denied his involvement, but back in February, under the terms of a plea agreement, Zazi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting al Qaeda, which he said he received training from in Pakistan in 2008.
He faces life in prison without parole at his June sentencing, but his cooperation with authorities could earn him leniency.
He reportedly told prosecutors the plot was planned for the height of rush hour on some of the subway’s most congested lines.
(Moshe Altusky – YWN / NY Daily News / WCBSTV)
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so much for the theory that terrorists need to be tried in special courts, rather than in regular American courts.