Afghan man pleads guilty to NY subway bomb plot
Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2010 | 9:18 AM
An Afghanistan-born Colorado airport bus driver has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up New York\'s subway system.
Najibullah Zazi told a federal court yesterday that he had been planning what he called a martyrdom operation.
Zazi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder and providing material support to al-Qaeda.
US Attorney General Eric Holder says the plot was one of the most serious threats to the US since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Zazi faces a sentence of life in prison without parole.
He was arrested last September; after homemade explosives were found in a car he was driving.