Would-be NYC bomber faces sentencing in foiled al-Qaeda plot
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May 2, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly a decade of helping federal authorities fight terrorism, the ringleader of a thwarted plot to bomb the New York City subway system finally will be sentenced Thursday.
The afternoon hearing in Brooklyn federal court marks a once unthinkable second chance for Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee), a 33-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who became radicalized and received explosives training from al-Qaeda after traveling to Pakistan in 2008.
The terrorist organization recruited Zazi and two others to carry out a "martyrdom operation" on U.S. soil. The mission ca...
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