But Homeland Security, the FBI and The New York Times insist that jihad is not a threat.
A man accused of helping to plan New York City subway bomb attack shouted 'we love death' to a confused 911 operator as he sped down a highway to commit 'Jihad'.
And remember: at the exact same time as this massive WMD plot was unfolding in New York City on the anniversary of 911 as "the biggest attack in the US since 2001," President Obama was giving a speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations, addressing the gravest threat facing this nation -- global warming.
"we understand the gravity" of the threat. "We are determined to act. And we will meet our responsibility to future generations." He said that a failure to address the threat could lead to an "irreversible catastrophe." Time, he said, is "running out," but "we can reverse" the problem. "If things go business-as-usual, we will not live, we will die," he said. "Our country will not exist." He told us that it wouldn't be easy, but "I am here today to say that difficulty is no excuse for complacency. Unease is no excuse for inaction."
As he spoke, bomb-sniffing dogs were out in force in New York City.
Obama never mentioned the homicide attack, planned to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, although it was to be the biggest plot in the US since 2001. Three men were allegedly planning to strap bombs to themselves and attack the underground with coordinated explosions planned to copy those on London five years ago.
Revealed: Terror suspect's 911 call as he tried to speed to his death 'in act of Jihad' at 100mph on New York highway By Daily Mail ReporterA man accused of helping to plan New York City subway bomb attack shouted 'we love death' to a confused 911 operator as he sped down a highway to commit 'Jihad'.
Adis Medunjanin is facing trial for intentionally crashing his car on a Queens highway in January 2010 after reaching speeds of 100 mph.
'This is Adis. We love - we love death,' he says in English during the 911 call released yesterday.
The rest of his diatribe before the crash was in Arabic, but translated as: 'There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah'.
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Suspect: Adis Medunjanin, pictured third from left in this courtroom sketch, is on trial for intentionally crashing his car on a Queens highway in January 2010 after reaching speeds of 100 mph
Authorities said Medunjanin, 26, got into his Nissan Altima and crashed on the Whitestone Expressway on January 7, 2010 after finding out that was suspected in the subway plot and crashed the vehicle in a last-ditch effort to attack the U.S.
He smashed into another car but wasn't seriously injured, and agents took him into custody.
Medunjanin’s lawyer Robert Gottlieb argued that his client got flustered after FBI agents came to his home to inform him that he was a suspect in the subway plot.
More...He has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of hatching a plot with two former high school classmates from Queens, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, to pull off what prosecutors call three 'coordinated suicide bombing attacks' on Manhattan subway lines.
The FBI, in reports filed to support arguments that his statements should be allowed at trial, claims he waived his right to consult a lawyer before he willingly described his involvement.
According to the FBI, the Bosnian-born Medunjanin initially told agents in a voluntary interview shortly after Zazi's arrest in September 2009 that he had travelled to Pakistan for 26 days in 2008 with Zazi and Ahmedzay to get married but discovered 'the dowry cost was too high.'
Crash: Authorities said Medunjanin got into his Nissan Altima (seen above) and crashed on the Whitestone Expressway after finding out that was being investigated in the plot to attack the NYC subway system
Medunjanin, who worked as a security guard, said he had become a more devout Muslim about four years before the plot was exposed after he and Zazi began spending time together at a local mosque, the reports say.
He also recalled being influenced by tapes of U.S.-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, they say.
But he denied knowing what Zazi was up to, or knowing about any pending attacks on the United States, saying, 'We do not want this war,' the reports say.
After months of being watched by agents, their arrival at his home with a search warrant convinced him they 'had found out what he did in Pakistan,' FBI reports about his post-arrest interviews say.
Over the next two days, the reports say, he admitted he had decided to go to Afghanistan with his friends, join the Taliban and fight U.S. soldiers in retaliation for the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
The three instead were recruited by Al Qaeda operatives, who gave them weapons training in their Pakistan camp and asked them to become suicide bombers, the reports say.
Deadly plan: Medunjanin has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of hatching a plot with two former high school classmates from Queens, Najibullah Zazi (above) and Zarein Ahmedzay
Medunjanin told his Al Qaeda handlers "he had prayed but still wasn't sure if he was ready to be a martyr,' the reports say. After Medunjanin arrived in Pakistan in 2008, authorities say, he took the code name Mohammad for what would become a failed mission by Al Qaeda to attack the city's subway system with homemade bombs.
A year later, when federal agents showed up with a search warrant at Medunjanin's New York home, one apparently sought to rattle him by addressing him by the secret alias.
The reference left him "visibly shaken," according to an FBI account recently made public in court papers. After receiving Al Qaeda training, Zazi, a former Denver airport shuttle driver, cooked up explosives and set out for New York City around the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
He was arrested after abandoning the plan and fleeing back to Colorado.
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