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Jury indicts 2 in NYC subway bomb plot

A federal grand jury has indicted two men in the foiled New York City subway bomb plot.
This courtroom sketch shows Zarein Ahmedzay, right, with his attorney Michael Marinaccio, during Ahmedzay's arraignment at Brooklyn Federal court in New York on Friday. ((Elizabeth Williams/Associated Press))

A federal grand jury has indicted two men in the foiled New York City subway bomb plot.

Charges unsealed this morning in Brooklyn allege that Zarein Ahmedzay and Adis Medunjanin were involved in the plan to attack the New York subway system in mid-September 2009.

The two are accused of conspiring with Najibullah Zazi to use weapons of mass destruction — explosive bombs — to conduct an attack on Manhattan subway lines last September. Zazi, 24, has pleaded guilty to federal charges and is co-operating with federal prosecutors.

U.S. prosecutors told a federal court in Denver in September that Zazi, a Colorado airport shuttle driver, travelled regularly to Canada, raising concerns that he might have tried to organize another terror cell north of the border.