system was part of a much larger conspiracy according to officials who say they ve arrested three men in europe for planning terror attacks. with links to the new york subway plot and a similar one. five people in the new york case. among them, this american citizen, it was also one of the f.b.i. s most wanted terrorists. officials say he s a senior member of al-qaida who recruited zazi. he s the denver airport shuttle driver who has already pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. so a wider plot. and laura ingram is following the story for us. hi, shep. they say they have the three men under surveillance for more than a year. what prompted to make the arrests today before the trio could escape or destroy evidence, that s after learning details of the investigation could have been made public by a news agency. they had to move fast. officials haven t released their
specifically, 34-year-old saudi native jumah who was organizing at least three people to launch terror attacks in new york city. the other named only as akhmed described as an al-qaeda facilitator in pakistan was communicating by e-mail with zazi in the u.s. and naseer in the u.k. to advise them on making bombs. the dine itment says that he remains at large. akmad is described out of obrating out of peshawar, pakistan. shannon: thank you. another accused al-qaeda figure pleaded guilty today in a hearing at the guantanamo bay naval bay in cuba. national correspondent catherine herridge was at the proceeding. reporter: he s now pled guilty to conspiracy of providing material support to al-qaeda and he was one of the first detainees to arrive at now defunked camp x-ray in january of 2002. this represents the first
holder s department caught the guy who was allegedly behind the guy behind times square. they interrupted a plot by zazi allegedly to bomb the subway system in new york city. eric holder has been a very, very effective counterterrorism attorney general. he s kept america safe. the fact a that he wasn t want to smear one of the world s great religions, you know, nobody attacked the attorney general when i was working for bill clinton when she wouldn t smear tim mcveigh, he wasn t christian at all, but it s the faith he attempted to try to proclaim. they are not truly muslim at all, and he didn t want to smear one of the great religions. we don t have time, tony, but we do have to wish paul happy birthday, because it s a big week for him. happy birthday, paul. and enjoy, texas. my fellow longhorns, hook em horns. they love you here in texas, thank you very much. it s the beginning of the end of the space shuttle
f.b.i. came 6:00 in the morning to harass me asking question about that guy, whoever, that guy tried to do whatever in the city. why would i do that anyway? terrorists so he can go kill our kids? that man aside, the u.s. is arguably among the best in the world of post-incident investigations. once a suspect is identified, they can follow his electronic trail, cell phone records, figure out who he talked to and who may have financed his operations. it s clear this investigation is not over yet, guys. rick, we listened to the denials and these guys might be innocent but who knows? but we remember zazi also had the same thing saying you can check me out. you can follow me all around. it turns out his plan that he admitted to was to blow up subway lines. i think, brian, what people can comfort themselves with is if that man or any of these
yeah. nonetheless, the overarching headline is that anti-terror funding to new york city is being cut and when that s the headline, that is not good news for the president coming here. how about the terms of $100 million. how about slashing $53 million overall from the new york city government, grants for security from dogs to different detection devices, down 45 down 27% and down $30 million. port security, that s not a vulnerability, is it? that is now cut by $12 million or 25% and it s not just guy congressmen, republican congressman peter king that are upset. you know who is more upset? chuck schumer, he says you cannot be serious. look what happened over the last three months. we ve had three attempted attacks in the last four months one of which had the subway bombing would be our coffee guy, zazi and his body. they ll be in prison for a while. if they have their way, at least three different subway lines