Waive counsel from the Dominican accused of plotting an attack in New York

The lawyer for a man of Dominican, origin accused by the authorities in New York of being a "supporter" of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda that was planning attacks in the city, resigned to continue his case by a "conflict of interest" of the organization which assists legal.

This a spokesman for Legal Aid Society, an organization that offers free legal assistance to people with limited resources and which had been responsible for the defence of José Pimentel, but had to withdraw today from the case after checking that they also represent a police informant involved in the case was confirmed to Efe.

Now the judge in charge of the case must assign a new lawyer for Pimentel, whose next appearance in court was initially planned for this Friday although following the withdrawal of his lawyer, Joseph Zabłocki, could be delayed until next week.

Meanwhile, today met that the Federal Bureau of u000aInvestigation (FBI) ruled out investigating on two occasions the accused, for 27 years, considering that he is a deranged mental unable to carry out their plans, according to published the "Daily News" newspaper, which quoted sources in the security forces.

A spokesman for the Office of the FBI in New York declined to confirm today told Efe that they effectively ruled out an investigation that would have asked the Police Department, which was targeted to Pimentel from two years ago, and was limited to respond that currently "the investigation is ongoing".

On the other hand, the family of Pimentel remained today surprised by accusations that they weigh against him and after on Monday spoke his mother, today was the turn of his father, Juan José Pimentel, who said the network CNN that his son had spent two years depressed but "never" became involved in any acts terrorist.

The Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced the u000aSunday press conference that Pimentel is a "lone wolf" who learned to make bombs with an article in a magazine from Al Qaeda on the Internet, and explained that it is an "impaired" by the presence of troops of United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The defendant had targeted to employees of the Government, military personnel and politicians, and at the time of his arrest at his home in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, the heart of the Dominican community in New York, was in the process of making bombs to attack police patrols and post offices.

Authorities claim that Pimentel recently converted to Islam and wanted to change their name by Osama Hussein "to honor his two idols", the exlíder of Qaida Osama Bin Laden and former dictator hissene Iraqi Saddam Hussein, and was a "follower" of the radical cleric Anwar Awlaki, who died in September in an attack in the United States.UU. Yemen.

With this arrest, which exemplifies the kind of "threat" of the u000athat it is alerting the FBI for years, Bloomberg said that they are 14 times that they have sought to harm in the city since the two aircraft bombers piloted by terrorists of Al-Qaeda knocked down the twin towers on September 11, 2001.

The last time that New York was under the shadow of a terrorist threat was at the beginning of September, a few days before the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the attacks of 9-11, when it secured after receiving what the authorities described as a "credible but no proven threat".

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