NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A Bosnian immigrant was being held without bail after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from his role in an alleged al-Qaida plot targeting New York.
Adis Medunjanin, 25, has been charged with getting military training from al-Qaida in Pakistan and planning to carry out terrorist acts in the United States.
Federal investigators say Medunjanin had traveled to Pakistan in 2008 with accused terror conspirator Najibullah Zazi, The New York Times reported.
Zazi, a shuttle bus driver at the Denver airport, was arrested last year. Investigators said he planned to commit a terrorist act in the United States on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Robert Gottlieb, Medunjanin's lawyer, said his client and Zazi went to the same high school and belonged to the same mosque. Gottlieb said Medunjanin is a U.S. citizen who came from Bosnia in 1995.
Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, a taxi driver who investigators say also made the trip to Pakistan, were arrested this week. Ahmedzay, charged with lying to the FBI about places he visited in Pakistan, was arraigned Friday.
