FBI learned of subway terror suspect in January
The FBI learned last January that a Pakistani-born man arrested in the Washington subway-bomb sting was trying to make contact with terrorist groups to help him participate in jihad against US forces overseas, according to a court record.
FBI agent Charles A. Davoub said in an affidavit unsealed Thursday that Farooque Ahmed, 34, and an unnamed associate hoped to fight in Afghanistan or Pakistan early next year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation subsequently learned that Ahmed either bought, or tried to buy, weapons in May 2008 and February 2009. (AP)
