NEW YORK — An admitted al-Qaida recruit testified Wednesday that he and two friends were determined to “weaken America” by strapping on suicide bombs and attacking New York City subways around the eighth anniversary of 9/11, but now hopes for redemption. “I believe my crimes are very bad,” Najibullah Zazi said on cross-examination. “If God…
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser praised the New York Police Department’s work Friday, saying the agency has struck an appropriate balance between keeping people safe and protecting their rights. “It’s not a trade-off between our security and our freedoms and our rights as citizens,” John Brennan said Friday in an appearance…
NEW YORK — A man charged with plotting to attack police and soldiers with homemade bombs pleaded not guilty Tuesday to rarely used state-level terrorism charges. Jose Pimentel nearly whispered “not guilty” in a case authorities describe as bringing down an overt al-Qaida sympathizer who was building a pipe bomb to act on his violent…
NEW YORK — At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear that the New York Police Department might secretly be infiltrating Muslim student’s lives has spread beyond them to others who find the reported tactics “disgusting,” as one teenager put it. The NYPD surveillance of Muslims on a dozen college campuses in the Northeast is a…
NEW YORK — A New York City councilman is calling for the creation of an inspector general’s office to oversee the police department. Two lawyers with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University called Monday for such an office in a New York Times opinion piece. Democratic City Councilman Brad Lander echoed them…
