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Najibullah Zazi Indicted in New York, Transfer is Imminent

By Jeralyn

Bump and Update: The New York Defendant, Iman Ahmad Afzali, has been ordered released on 1.5 million bail. His friends and relatives will be posting real property.

Najibullah Zazi has been indicted for conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in New York. He will be transferred imminently. CBS' Rick Sallinger called this the other day.

The new charge carries a possible life sentence, and the sentencing guidelines provide for a life sentence. The one-count Indictment is here and the Memorandum Suppporting Detention is here.

It contains new details alleging Zazi purchased large amounts of chemicals in Aurora, CO, rented a hotel suite on two occasions where they believe he tested them and made phone calls inquiring about instructions. [More...]

The memorandum states the notes were found in an e-mail account Zazi gave them consent to search for (undoubtedly during his voluntary interview.) Interestingly, when they searched Zazi's house they found his laptop -- the one that had been in his rental car in New York that they say they searched legally -- but the hard drive had been removed.

CBS reports Mohamed Zazi will be released today and that the condition of home monitoring has been removed.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).