Enemies Within (43 page)

6
. Karen Zraick, “A Man Under Watch, but Not Under Wraps, in a Terrorism Case,”
New York Times
, October 8, 2009,
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/nyregion/09surveil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.

7
. The conversation and other details about the Ohio operation were described in interviews with Figliuzzi and other current and former law enforcement officials.

Twelve: People Die to Come Here

1
. Garrett Graff, “Homegrown Terror: Najibullah Zazi and Colorado’s Terrorist Ties,”
5280
(magazine), November 2011,
www.5280.com/magazine/2011/11/homegrown-terror
.

2
. Ibid. Folsom is now deceased. His recollection of this first meeting is based on Graff’s article.

3
. United States v. Mohammed Wali Zazi, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 10-CR-60, transcript, p. 648.

4
. Naqib Jaji testimony, ibid.

5
. Amanullah Zazi testimony, ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Meg Jones, “Oshkosh Native, FBI Agent Recalls Meeting Terrorist,” Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel
, April 25, 2012,
www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/terror-within-inches-ac55b80-148988495.html
.

8
. John Frank, “History Supports McCain’s Stance on Waterboarding,” PolitiFact, December 18, 2007,
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2007/dec/18/john-mccain/history-supports-mccains-stance-on-waterboarding
.

9
. 
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen “High Value Detainees” in CIA Custody
(International Committee of the Red Cross, February 2007),
http://assets.nybooks.com/media/doc/2010/04/22/icrc-report.pdf
.

10
. George Tenet,
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 278.

11
. Interviews with Davis and Olson.

12
. Interview with Olson.

13
. Graff, “Homegrown Terror,”
www.5280.com/magazine/2011/11/homegrown-terror
.

14
. Mark A. Godsey, “Reformulating the
Miranda
Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings,”
Minnesota Law Review
90, no. 4 (2005–06): 781.

15
. Graff, “Homegrown Terror,”
www.5280.com/magazine/2011/11/homegrown-terror
.

16
. Zazi testimony in United States v. Medunjanin, p. 704 (“I knew beforehand, sir, that I’m screwed, and I was just trying to go and pretend that anything would happen, just blame me for it”).

17
. Medunjanin 302, transcription date September 18, 2009. Obtained by authors.

18
. Greg Miller, “How Many Security Clearances Have Been Issued? Nearly Enough for Everyone in the Washington Area,”
Washington Post
, September 20, 2011,
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/how-many-security-clearances-has-the-government-issued-nearly-enough-for-everyone-in-the-washington-area/2011/09/20/gIQAMW3OiK_blog.html
.

19
. All quotes and details from the phone call are described in Graff’s article in
5280
.

20
. A tape of Medunjanin’s 911 call was released at his trial.

21
. Mosi Secret, “Prison for Father Who Lied About Terror Plot,”
New York Times
, February 10, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/nyregion/mohammed-wali-zazi-sentenced-for-lying-about-subway-bomb-plot.html
.

Epilogue

1
. Mitchell D. Silber, “How the NYPD Foiled a Plot to Bomb the Subways,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 4, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304743704577380403870893454.html
.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Justin Elliott, “Fact-Check: How the NYPD Overstated Its Terrorism Record,” ProPublica, July 10, 2012,
www.propublica.org/article/fact-check-how-the-nypd-overstated-its-counterterrorism-record
.

4
. James Freeman, “The Political War on the NYPD,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 5, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501004578388311774675612.html
.

5
. Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, “NYPD Messages to Muslim Informant: ‘Get Pictures,’ ” the Associated Press, May 20, 2012.

6
. 
http://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/clinics/immigration/clear/Mapping-Muslims.pdf
.

7
. Though the CIA maintains that Hamilton’s name is classified, the authors were told this by several NYPD officials, including some who do not have security clearances. He worked in an unclassified office and identified himself to colleagues as a CIA officer. Asked about Hamilton’s job in 2011, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, “It sounds right that he’s a special assistant to Cohen on loan from the CIA.” He subsequently emailed to clarify that nobody by that name worked for the NYPD.

INDEX

Abdelaziz, Ali,
153
–54

Abu Bakr (Flushing mosque),
89
,
94
–95,
98
,
99
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
104
,
116
,
174
,
175
,
176
,
200
,
233
,
235

Abu Ghraib prison photographs,
102

Afghanistan: CIA plan to capture bin Laden in,
38

civil war in,
96
–97

Lindh case and,
182

migration of people to U.S. from,
91
–92

mujahideen in,
93
,
95
,
99
,
101

Northern Alliance in,
96
,
99

post-Soviet,
95
–96

Soviet invasion of,
93
–94,
95

as staging ground for bin Laden and al-Qaeda,
98
–99

Taliban in,
96
–97,
99
,
101
,
103
–4,
218

U.S. invasion of,
13
,
99
–100,
101
–2,
108
,
212

Zazi-Ahmedzay-Medunjanin trip to,
9
,
16
,
89
,
103
–18,
204
,
246
,
247
,
268
–69

Afzali, Ahmad Wais: Ahmedzay and,
244

arrest of,
272

“Consent to Search” home of,
245

as “cooperative,”
175

deportation of,
275

guilty plea of,
275

JTTF questioning of,
243
–45

Medunjanin and,
232
,
244
,
246

and NYPD Intel-JTTF relationship,
228
–29,
270

and NYPD Intel Zazi investigation,
174
–75

raid on home of,
243

Sirakovsky relationship with,
174
–76

Zazi family telephone calls to and from,
225
–27,
228
,
229
,
231
–32,
236
,
245
,
266
,
282

Ahmad (Pakistani),
106
–7,
110
,
114
,
116

Ahmad, Rauf,
260
–61

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud,
23
–24

Ahmedzay, Zarein: Afghanistan/Pakistan trip of,
9
,
16
,
89
,
103
–18,
204
,
246
,
268
–69

Afzali and,
244

Afzali-Zazi telephone call and,
227

al-Qaeda interest of,
102

arrest of,
274

cover story for,
103
,
104
–5

and Denver police questioning of Zazi family,
226

disposal of bomb ingredients by,
199
–200,
233

family of,
114
,
116

FBI early interest in,
16

fears of,
199
–200

financing of activities of,
103
–4

FISAs for,
207

guilty plea and sentencing of,
274
,
275

JTTF interview with,
268
–69

JTTF investigation/surveillance of,
175
–77,
209

lack of information about,
89
,
221

legal case against,
236
,
262
,
267

martyrdom video of,
118

Medunjanin influence on,
100