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US cleric pleads guilty to lying to FBI about New York City subway bomb plot

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Imam Ahmad Afzali pleaded guilty Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to charges of lying to FBI agents in connection with a plot to detonate explosives in the New York City subway system. Afzali faces up to six months in prison and must leave the country within 90 days after being released from prison. Afzali, a New York City cleric, was arrested in September for tipping off terror suspects that the FBI was gathering intelligence on them. Sentencing is set for April 8. Last month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced superseding indictments against Adis Mendunjanin and Zaerein Ahmedzay, two men accused of planning to bomb subways in New York City. Mendunjanin previously pleaded not guilty on similar charges. Ahmedzay and Mendunjanin are accused of operating alongside Najibullah Zazi, who pleaded guilty last month to terrorism charges for planning the subway attacks. Afzali, while working as an informant for the FBI, told Zazi agents were asking about him. Afzali claims that he did not realize that the extent or nature of Zazi's involvement.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).