The FBI has gone after school pals of alleged terrorist bomber Najibullah Zazi, and today sources revealed they have his uncle too. They arrested Naqib Jaji secretly on a single felony charge (the exact nature of the crime remains undisclosed) and arraigned him in Brooklyn two weeks ago, reported the NY Post. Jaji—Zazi's uncle by marriage—gave the accused Qaeda plotter a warm bed and hot meals when he first moved from Queens to Denver and later said it was "impossible" his nephew was a terrorist. But Jaji maligned his house guest too: “He’s very greedy,” he told the Denver Post back in September when the case was just getting underway. “He lived with me for six months and never gave me a penny.”
Though the details are still murky it seems as though loose-lipped high school chum Adis Medunjanin is likely to provide more evidence against Zazi than the uncle—who pleaded not guilty to whatever it was he was charged with. His nephew, an airport shuttle driver, is accused of purchasing beauty supplies to make homemade explosives, which he planned to use in a 9/11 style attack on NY. Jaji's lawyer wouldn't comment, but a family member told the NY Times the FBI meant business: he said agents questioned Jaji for three consecutive days before going through with the backdoor arrest.
The paper predicts Zazi's dad will be next up to bat. At the rate they're expanding this net around his associates, how long before Kevin Bacon gets charged?
