New Terror Plot Details Reveal Attempt To Rent Trucks
October 1, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
KUSA-TV in Denver reports that video footage turned over to the FBI shows alleged terror suspect Najibullah Zazi and several others attempting to rent trucks from a local truck rental agency in Colorado, a week before the 9/11 anniversary.
The footage captured on security videotapes reportedly shows the men asking about the trucks in a Colorado U-Haul International office.
In the report, U-Haul International spokeswoman Joanne Fried told the station that FBI agents seized security videotapes of Zazi who was with two or three other men inside the rental location in suburban Aurora.
Sources said Zazi and the others asked methods of deposit on the trucks, but left and never came back.
Earlier we reported that other alleged accomplices of Zazi but not the terror suspect himself attempted to rent a U-Haul in Queens new York on Sept. 9.
From KUSA-TV
New details uncovered by 9Wants to Know on Wednesday revealed a Denver airport shuttle driver may have been planning an attack similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Twenty-four-year-old terror suspect Najibullah Zazi and several accomplices were videotaped trying to rent U-Haul trucks in Aurora, U-Haul International, Inc. confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Sources say the attempts at renting U-Haul trucks happened in the week leading up to the Sept. 11 anniversary.
In the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, American terrorists used rental trucks packed with explosives to level a federal building, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600 others. In 1993, terrorists used a vehicle filled with explosives in an attack on the World Trade Center that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others.
Former Department of Justice Attorney and author of the Patriot Act, Bryan Cunningham, said this information could detail a plot larger than previously thought.
“If you’re now talking about them trying to use U-Hauls as bombs, that is a much, much, much bigger operation. Remember Oklahoma City?” said Cunningham. “This creates a much bigger order of magnitude threat.”
Feds Investigate Failed Attempt To Rent Truck In NY Terror Probe
September 19, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
The New York Daily News reports today that investigators are looking into a failed attempt to rent a truck at a Queens truck rental, for ties to a possible Al Qaeda bomb plot.
The New York end of the expanding federal probe centered on seven Afghan men who tried to rent the biggest truck at a Queens U-Haul on Sept. 9, sources told the Daily News.The size of the vehicle involved, a 26-foot-long truck, suggested the conspirators may have wanted to pack it with explosives, sources said.
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The truck rental bid failed when none of the men could produce a valid credit card. All refused to surrender the identification needed to pay cash, the manager of the Flushing U-Haul said.
A team of FBI agents spent 10 hours Thursday combing through the Queens truck rental business. “We all feel very lucky right now,” U-Haul manager Robert Larson told The News.
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“None of them looked suspicious,” Larson said. “They looked like laborers. Not clean-cut guys, but your average Joe’s.”
