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Najibullah Zazi (Arabic: نجيب الله زازي, Pashto: نجیب الله ځاځی; born August 10, 1985) is an Afghan-American who was arrested in September 2009 as part of the U.S. al Qaeda group accused of planning suicide bombings on the New York City Subway system, and who pleaded guilty as have two other defendants.
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[3] It began operations on March 1, 2003, after being formed as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks. With more than 240,000 employees, [1] DHS is the third-largest Cabinet department, after the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. [4]
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Perpetrated by anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind, [3] [4] [5] and Terry Nichols, the bombing occurred at 9:02 a.m. and killed 167 people, injured 684, and destroyed more than one-third of the building, which had to be demolished. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings and caused an estimated $652 million ...
The storm killed 150 people and caused $3 billion in damages. On May 3, 1999, a violent tornado outbreak struck the Southern Great Plains, predominantly Oklahoma. The most destructive tornado was an F5 tornado that struck Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore. The tornado is one of the most prominent examples of a tornado striking a major urban ...
Vice President Pence delivers a speech aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) moored at Yokosuka, Japan, to 2,500 members of U.S. and Japanese armed forces, condemning North Korea's threat to international security and stating that America's "shield stands guard and sword stands ready". [114]