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2.  Colorado Cabdriver Denies Link to New York Terror Plot

Following Monday's police raids on homes in the New York borough of Queens, authorities have confimed that they have been tracking a Denver-area airport shuttle driver. The man, Najibullah Zazi, emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States, where he's been living legally since 1999, according to ABC News. FBI agents pulled over Zazi last week on the George Washington Bridge and searched his car and laptop. The FBI suspects that Zazi is central to a possible terror plot, involving homemade hydrogen-peroxide bombs, that the agency attempted to thwart in its Monday raids. But Zazi denies any link to that plot or terrorist organizations. "I have nothing to do with al Qaeda," he told ABC.

Read original story in ABC News | Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

 
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