Is 'Putting the squeeze on torture?'

[billynomates]

Father guilty of protecting subway plotter
The father of a terrorist was convicted yesterday of destroying evidence and lying to investigators to cover up his son's al-Qaeda-sanctioned plot to attack the New York City subway in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers.
Najibullah Zazi admitted in a guilty plea last year that he returned from Pakistan to his family's Denver-area home to practise making bombs using chemicals extracted from cosmetic supplies
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A Brooklyn jury found the father of Najibullah Zazi guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

The case featured the evidence of two other family members who pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the government to avoid stiff prison terms. They detailed the Afghan-American family's failure to acknowledge Zazi as a budding terrorist and its clumsy attempts to protect him once his plot fell apart.

A cousin of Najibullah Zazi told jurors that, while living in Pakistan, he had introduced Zazi to a cleric who arranged for Zazi and two childhood friends from New York to get explosives and other instruction at an al-Qaeda outpost.

Zazi admitted in a guilty plea last year that he returned from Pakistan to his family's Denver-area home to practise making bombs using chemicals extracted from cosmetic supplies. He then drove to New York in September 2009 with plans to attack the subway system in a "martyrdom operation" before he learned he was being watched by the FBI and fled back to Colorado.

The defendant's nephew and brother-in-law both said that the FBI and immigration agents "put the squeeze" on the Zazi clan as soon as the plot unravelled.




When it became clear Najibullah Zazi was a suspect and family members were getting grand jury subpoenas, the nephew said "Uncle Wali" recruited him to get rid of plastic containers of peroxide and other evidence.

The family agreed to code name the chemicals "medicine" in case the FBI was eavesdropping, he said. The verdict came on the second day of deliberations. Sentencing is set for Dec 2.

Should it be banned?

[maverick35]

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