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Feds: Zazi's trips, shopping spree led to terror threat

Originally published: September 26, 2009 5:31 PM
Updated: September 26, 2009 11:10 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Quick ReadHe wanted to turn beauty products into bombs, authorities say.

In this photo released by the New York

Photo credit: AP | In this photo released by the New York City Police Department, Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S. Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colo. (Sept. 25, 2009)

NEW YORK (AP) — It was midsummer in suburban Denver when an unassuming, bearded man pushed a red shopping cart between shelves stacked with hair coloring and nail polish remover.

By the time Najibullah Zazi checked into a nearby hotel suite with a kitchen in September, he had at least 18 bottles of peroxide-based hair lighteners and pages of notes for how to turn the beauty products into bombs,...

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