Three arrests in cross country terror probe
Late Saturday, the FBI made three arrests in New York City and Denver, Colorado, that they say were connected to an ongoing terror probe. 24-year-old Najibullah Zazi and his father Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53 years old, were both arrested in their aparment outside Denver. Agents also arrested Ahmad Wais Afzali in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York; Afzali served as the FBI’s informant in this case.
We talk this morning with two reporters currently covering this story. David Johnston covers the Justice Department for our partners The New York Times and has a story on the arrests in today’s paper, and Bruce Finley, staff writer for the Denver Post, who interviewed two of the arrested men in their homes before the FBI made their arrests.
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