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An admitted al-Qaida recruit testified Apr. 18 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.
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Attorney2019s Office in Brooklyn, N.Y., Adis Medunjanin is shown. Medunjanin is on trial in New York, accused of getting terrorism training in Pakistan by al-Qaida, then returning home to plot attacks in New York. Medunjanin, along with high school classmates, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, after getting terror training at an al-Qaida outpost, discussed bombing New York City movie theaters, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the New York Stock Exchange before targeting the city's subways, a prosecutor said Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney2019s Office)
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Najibullah Zazi, the admitted mastermind of a foiled plot to bomb New York City subways, arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning. Zazi on Tuesday April 17, 2012 testified at the trial of his high school classmate Adis Medunjanin, who is on trial on terrorism charges in the Brooklyn borough of New Yorl. Medunjanin is accused of traveling to Pakistan with Zazi and another classmate to seek terror training there so they could launch terror attacks back home. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Najibullah Zazi leaves his apartment in Aurora, Colo., for a meeting with his attorney. When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member2019s growing anti-Americanism. Those two men and friends _ Zazi at the mosque and Adis Medunjanin at the school _ would go on to be accused of plotting a subway bombing that officials have called the most serious terrorist threat to the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
Attorney for Najibullah Zazi, Michael Dowling, leaves U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In this Jan. 9, 2010, courtroom sketch, defense attorney Robert Gottlieb, left, is seated next to his client, defendant Adis Medunjanin, at the federal courthouse in New York City. When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member2019s growing anti-Americanism. Those two men and friends _ Najibullah Zazi at the mosque and Medunjanin at the school _ would go on to be accused of plotting a subway bombing that officials have called the most serious terrorist threat to the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 09: People ride the New York City subway into Manhattan during the morning commute on September 9, 2011 in New York City. Security is being tightened in New York and Washington, DC following the detection of a possible terror threat tied to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. New York City and the nation are preparing for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan, which resulted in the deaths of 2,753 people at the World Trade Center. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
