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Oct 3, 2009 7:32 pm US/Mountain

Denver FBI Head Talks To CBS4 About Terror Suspect

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NEW YORK (CBS4) ― Najibullah Zazi remains held without bond in New York. He faces charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.

CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger sat down with the special agent-in-charge of the Denver office of the FBI on Friday. He says the alleged terrorism plot has been disrupted.

The government believes Zazi, 24, did not act alone and at least three other unnamed persons are still at large. Nevertheless Jim Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge, insists there is no longer a threat.

"You know we are very comfortable that this plot has been disrupted," Davis said. "I do think it's important that the public understands we need people to be vigilant."

Still, no stone is being left unturned. A landscaping materials company told Sallinger it was visited by federal agents inquiring about purchases Zazi made there. U-Haul has turned over security tapes to the FBI, but says news reports are wrong that claimed suspects were definitely on the tapes.

The FBI continues to search for purchases of chemicals by those involved in the alleged plot.

Sallinger asked if there was any information about stadiums or other locations in the Denver area that was discovered.

"We have nothing at all that indicates; no intelligence, no investigation that indicates anything in Denver was a target of this particular plot," Davis said.

New York was more likely. Court papers indicate Zazi searched the Internet for home improvement stores in the Flushing, NY area for chemicals just before traveling there.

Outside the apartment where Zazi stayed and where he once lived, surveillance was being conducted and the probe continues.

"If we are investigating a terrorist act after it's been committed we have already failed in our mission, which is to protect the U.S. against those attacks," Davis said.

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