Najibullah Zazi

GOPers Who Hit Obama On Xmas Bomber Now Mum On Zazi Guilty Plea

Justin Elliott | February 24, 2010, 11:15AM

Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) and Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)

The Republicans who most vociferously blasted the Obama Administration for putting the attempted Christmas bombing suspect through the criminal justice system have apparently been silent on another high-profile terrorism case making its way through the civilian system.

Najibullah Zazi on Monday pleaded guilty in federal court to a plot to detonate explosives in the New York subway system. The government says that Zazi, a legal resident from Afghanistan, got training in 2008 from al Qaeda in Pakistan, and was motivated by anger over civilian deaths in his home country.

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