Times Square, Grand Central Key to NYC Bomb Plot
More details emerged Monday over an alleged attempt to set off explosives in the New York City subway system last year and a fourth suspect was reportedly arrested in Pakistan.
The New York Daily News reports an unidentified man will be extradited from Pakistan and will face trial in a Brooklyn federal court.
The man in charge of the plot, 25-year-old Najibullah Zazi, who grew up in Flushing, Queens, has cooperated with law enforcement officials and has said that he and two others planned to strap bombs to themselves aboard trains at the Times Square and Grand Central subway stations in mid-September of last year.
"This is one of the most serious plots we've seen from al Qaeda since 9/11," CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate told "The Early Show" Monday.
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Zazi pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting al Qaeda, which he said he received training from in Pakistan in 2008.
He faces life in prison without parole at his June sentencing, but his cooperation with authorities could earn him leniency.