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Authors: Matt Apuzzo,Adam Goldman

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NYPD Intel investigation of,
174
,
176
Pakistani police and,
106
personal background of,
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–92,
98
,
101
raid on home of,
243
,
247
,
248
suicide bombing and,
102
,
109
–10,
114
as Taliban supporter,
102
as taxi driver,
100
telephone records of,
205
and U.S. invasion of Afghanistan,
101
–2
Zazi arrest and,
271
Zazi Bear Mountain State Park trip with,
118
Zazi confession and,
268
Zazi cross-country trip and,
59
,
119
Zazi-FBI interview and,
269
–71
Zazi first meets,
98
Zazi-Medunjanin pact with,
103
–4

Al-Aman mosque (Middletown, New Jersey),
193

Al-Ansar Center (Brooklyn),
193
–95

Al-Falah mosque (Queens),
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,
197
,
211
,
213

Al-Farooq (mosque),
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–85,
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,
197

Al-Ikhwa (Brooklyn mosque),
137
,
185

Al Jazeera,
76
,
92
,
132
–33

Al Madinah (Brooklyn school),
183

Al Marwa Center (New York City mosques),
183

Al-Muhajiroun (Islamic extremist group),
140

al-Qaeda: and Ahmedzay-Medunjanin-Zazi trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan,
107
–14

American perception of,
113
attempts to attack U.S. by,
116
bin Laden death and,
277
biological weapons for,
260
bombs for members of,
119
British arrest of members of,
54
CIA and,
68
,
108
,
117
,
186
–87,
190
,
218
drone attacks on,
158
and email interception,
8
–9,
239
FBI concerns about U.S.-based terrorist cells formed by,
9
–10
fundraising for,
184
–85
Iraq War and,
80
Islamic terrorism as model for,
38
and mistakes of NYPD,
147
mosque investigations and ties to,
184
,
186
NYPD files on,
132
in Pakistan,
9
,
107
–14,
167
,
218
recruiting for,
215
,
220
–21
screeners for,
107
–8
Tablighi Jamaat and,
182
training camps for,
107
–16
traitors within,
108
turning point in U.S. war against,
112
See also specific person or incident

Al-Tawheed Islamic City (Jersey City),
190

Alavi Foundation,
16

Albin, George,
61
,
64

Alec Station, CIA,
31
,
38

Ali, Hussein ibn,
146
,
147

American Airlines Flight
11
,
69

American Airlines Flight
63
: shoe bomber on,
71
–72

American Airlines Flight 587 crash,
29

American Best Travel & Tours (Queens),
89

American Family Association,
133
–34

Ames, Aldrich,
31
,
32
,
36

Anderson, Lauren,
217

anthrax,
6
,
28
,
47
,
261

antiwar protests,
45
,
46
,
49
,
145

Ashcroft, John,
180
,
186

Ashwood, Carlos,
42

“asset scrub,” CIA,
37

Associated Press,
216
,
278

At Taqwa (Brooklyn mosque),
181
–82

Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park bombing,
257

Atta, Mohamed,
69
–71,
72
,
76
,
257

Aurora, Colorado.
See
Denver Art Museum

Joint Terrorism Task Force—Denver, FBI (JTTF)
Zazi family or family member

Avrakotos, Gustav,
34
–35,
65

Awlaki, Anwar al-,
101
,
104
,
136
–37

Azad, Farbod,
246
,
273

backpacks,
118
,
251
–52,
256
,
277

Banke, Albert,
205
,
206

Barelvis (Sunni sect),
147

Bay Ridge International Café (Brooklyn),
132

Beit El Masjid (Brooklyn mosque),
135

Bell, Sean: shooting of,
145

Berdecia, Hector,
78
–81,
85
,
87
–89,
260
,
282

Bhatt, Arvin,
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–27

Billy, Joseph Jr.,
183
–86

bin Abdul Wahhab, Muhammad,
139
–40

bin al-Shibh, Ramzi,
6
,
70

bin Laden, Osama: Atta and,
69

CIA and,
30
–31,
38
death of,
277
declaration of war on U.S. by,
13
embassy bombing indictment against,
220
9/11 and,
98
–99
in Pakistan,
117
rise of,
38
and theological and geopolitical underpinnings of terrorism,
138
Vinas idolization of,
212

Black Medallion case,
57

Black Panthers,
41
,
42
,
43
,
44

black sites,
73
–74

Bledsoe, Carlos,
135

Bloomberg, Michael,
27
,
28
,
39
,
139
,
191
,
223
,
224
–25,
277
,
279
,
280
,
282
,
283

Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S.,
174

bombs: for al-Qaeda members,
119

backpack,
118
,
277
Homeland Security warnings about,
253
ingredients for,
1
,
2
,
8
–9,
115
,
119
,
199
,
233
,
234
,
254
–55,
263
,
267
,
268
,
271
“Mother of Satan,”
3
pressure cooker,
277
for suicide bombers,
3
TATP,
1
–3,
115
,
119
,
166
,
200
,
233
,
234
,
253
,
263
,
264
,
267
and Vinas bomb making,
215
Zazi and Ahmedzay disposal of ingredients for making,
199
–200,
233
Zazi email to al-Qaeda about,
239
and Zazi’s bomb making,
1
–3,
8
–9,
114
–16,
199
–200,
233
,
234
,
235
–36,
265
,
267
, 268,
271
See also specific person or incident

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