NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the end, it was not the threat of waterboarding or Guantanamo Bay prison that persuaded Najibullah Zazi to cooperate with investigators. It was love for his mother and the threat she would go to jail. Zazi's guilty plea on Monday provided a much-needed political victory for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S ...

Afghan immigrant and self-confessed Al-Qaeda agent Najibullah Zazi on Tuesday faced the prospect of a life behind bars, after pleading guilty to a plot to blow up New York's subway system. Zazi, 25, on Monday pleaded guilty to three charges: conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Afghan immigrant pleaded guilty on Monday to plotting a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways with al Qaeda training for what would have been the worst attack on the United States since September 11, 2001. Najibullah Zazi, 25, also admitted in Brooklyn federal court that he had received bomb-making and weapons training from al ...

This is the text of Najibullah Zazi's description in federal court in Brooklyn of a plan hatched to make homemade bombs to attack the New York City transit system. Zazi pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to make weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit ...