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Feds: LI man plotted terror attack on mass transit

Bryant Neal Vinas in an undated photo obtained

Photo credit: Handout Photo | Bryant Neal Vinas in an undated photo obtained by Newsday from his childhood friend Victor Kuilan, who said the photo was 3 to 4 years old.

A young man whose journey from Patchogue to Pakistan took him to an al-Qaida training camp and an attack on a U.S. military base emerged yesterday as a key player in al-Qaida plots against area mass transit systems, as he continued to cooperate in multiple investigations of international terrorism.

Bryant Neal Vinas, 26, was captured in Pakistan in November. He pleaded guilty secretly in January...

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