The New York Daily News reports “Hundreds of FBI agents are on the ground in Colorado, conducting round-the-clock surveillance on five suspects” in relation to a massive probe that revealed a potential terrorist cell based in Colorado. The probe resulted in a raid on several Queens, New York apartments. An unnamed former counterterrorism official told the Daily News “The FBI is seriously spooked about these guys planning another 9/11. This is not some … FBI informant-driven case. This is the real thing.”
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly Told reporters that the investigation had “substance.”
9News Denver adds that the FBI’s joint terrorism task force has been in Denver searching for links to a suspected extremist who recently traveled to New York. They have not located the individual at the center of the investigation, but did find a document about bomb-making in an apartment.
Update: The Denver Post reports that the target of the FBI search in Denver is named Najibullah. The New York Post describes the man as “a Queens-born man in his late 20s who has an Afghani father,” and adds that he “had been under surveillance by the FBI in Denver, where he lives.” According to ABC News, Najibullah was recently allowed to fly back to Denver from New York under “close surveillance.”