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Local November 21, 2011 | 7:21 am

Dominican charged in plot targeting NYPD vehicles

NEW YORK — A 27-year-old native of the Dominican Republic and al-Qaida sympathizer has been arrested and charged in an alleged terrorist plot targeting New York police vehicles, postal facilities and U.S. troops returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday evening.

The U.S. citizen Jose Pimentel, who lives in Washington Heights in the north... Read more