Feds: Terror Suspect Hoped to Be Swapped For American Soldier in Afghanistan

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Source: NBC

An associate of convicted subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi allegedly confessed several times to FBI agents saying he hoped to swapped for an American POW in Afghanistan.

Prosecutors said Adis Medunjanin repeatedly told investigators he traveled to Pakistan to meet with al Qaeda operatives and that he hoped to carry out suicide bombings in the September 2009 plot.

The new details come as Medunjanin prepares for his trial to fight the charges that he was in on the terror plot.

Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay have already pleaded guilty. Court papers suggest the three men hoped to carry out the bomb plot during the holy month of Ramadan. After his arrest, Medunjanin allegedly asked to be part of a prisoner exchange.

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