FEDS SMASH TERROR PLOT!

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UPDATE:
NEW DETAILS: FBI nips bomb plot – mass transit warning issued.

After FBI arrested the Denver to Queens terror suspects, the question remains:  Did Feds nip bomb plot in the bud?

Najibullah Zazi, 25, an Afghan who was busted in Aurora, Colorado, near Denver, Saturday night.  He had visited NYC on the 9/11 anniversary armed with a laptop full of bomb making recipes and maps of key targets.

Just before Zazi’s NY trip, FBI and NYPD were alerted by foreign intelligence requests for wiretaps and they went into action.

Also involved in the terror-plot was a Queens NYPD snitch, Iman Afazli, who Feds says alerted Zazi and his father, Mohammed, after cops quizzed Aszali about Zazi’s movements in New York.

On a laptop computer discovered in the Zazi’s rental car, NYPD found photographic copies of his handwritten notes on making bomb fuses.

The FBI also found an electronic "black scale" used to measure chemicals for hydrogen peroxide-based explosives with Zazi’s fingerprints.

According to reports, a senior counter terrorist expert said it’s unclear if Feds quashed the plot for good. "They’re still looking" but believe the terror plot has been "compromised".

"We think we have a pretty good handle on the threat, but we’d know a lot more if Afzali hadn’t tipped them in the beginning," another intelligence insider revealed.

Both Zazis, father and son, will appear in a Denver court today while their Queens pal Afzali appears before a federal judge in Brooklyn.

Multiple law enforcement sources say they still have eight suspects and several in Denver currently under surveillance in an "ongoing and fast-paced investigation" of the first Al Qaeda terror cell uncovered in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks.

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