How Did An Afghan Immigrant To The U.S. Become A Suspected Terrorist?

Suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi is escorted onto a NYPD helicopter after his arrival at Teterboro airport. New York Daily News

Radical Influences All Around NYC Terror Suspect -- New York Times

NEW YORK (AP) -- If he chose to listen, Najibullah Zazi could hear the calls for violence all around him.

The Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack on New York City spent his earliest years in his wartorn homeland, a center of strife and fighting against a Soviet invasion and, after the occupiers left, clashing warlords.

When Zazi was a teenager, his family shared a Queens apartment building and worshipped with an imam linked to a former Afghan warlord later identified by the U.S. as a global terrorist.

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My Comment: This story reminds me of the same stories that I read 8 years ago from 9/11 family members who were "shocked" upon learning that someone in their family would perpetuate mass murder. The sad fact of the matter is that they probably suspected .... like Najibullah Zazi family .... but choose to ignore and/or deny it.

He will have his day in court, but the federal authorities are very confident about this case.