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Family, officials discuss terror suspect

Originally published: November 21, 2011 8:11 AM
Updated: November 21, 2011 10:25 PM
By ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO, NICHOLAS SPLANGLER, TED PHILLIPS, KERY MURAKAMI, JOHN RILEY AND IGOR KOSSOV  lidesk@newsday.com

Carmen Sosa, the mother of alleged terrorist Jose

Photo credit: Photo by Charles Eckert | Carmen Sosa, the mother of alleged terrorist Jose Pimentel, speaks to the media in the lobby of the apartment where he was arrested on Saturday. Pimentel was charged with three terrorism-related counts and two other counts, according to court documents. (Nov. 21, 2011)

The suspect in the latest New York City terror plot followed a solitary online path to violent radical Islam, family members and law enforcement officials said Monday.

Jose Pimentel, 27, was being held Monday without bail on state terrorism charges following his arrest Saturday after authorities said he plotted, as an al-Qaida sympathizer, to use explosives to attack post offices, police buildings...

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