Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Zazi: Genome of the homegrown Jihadist

By Walid Phares

"When are we detecting them? Almost at the end..

In a confrontation with a force like al Qaeda, whom the US is fighting in two major battlefields (Afghanistan and Iraq), and as allies are battling within a couple dozen countries on five continents, the guilty plea entered by a US Jihadist who admitted links to this Terror group and detailed his war mission against the homeland. This case deserves high level analysis. Najibullah Zazi is not just an “isolated extremist” caught in September 2009 while crossing a New York bridge with plans to bomb few tunnels - end of the story. Zazi’s “Jihad” story is way more than the impressive facts the Justice Department has already revealed. If we focus more on the journey of this determined Jihadist, we would discover that one of the “genomes” of homegrown Terror. In this essay, I’ll only follow the Government’s release:

The Justice Department announced that Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty in a “conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States,” in connection with al-Qaeda. His main attack targeted the New York subway system."

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