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NEWS > U.S.A. > INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS QUESTIONED IN PLAN TO EXPAND NEW YORK SUBWAY TUNNEL
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS QUESTIONED IN PLAN TO EXPAND NEW YORK SUBWAY TUNNEL
September 19 2009
New York, NY – Though the economy has shown definitive signs of improving as the recession officially starts to end there are still people across the United States living in much harder times than they were just a year ago. The rate of job losses and house 
foreclosures has most decidedly slowed of late but many people are still finding it difficult to make ends meet and are concerned that the jobs may never come back. It is exactly those people, in the best spirit of American entrepreneurship, who are starting to make their own way and make their own jobs.
That kind of spirit and energy has long been applauded by government officials but for 24-year old Najibullah Zazi living the American Dream is a little tougher than he expected. The Afghan immigrant was questioned again today in connection with a plot against the New York transit system, specifically the subway. Though initial indications and expectations are that he planned to blow up the subway, Zazi has claimed that he was simply trying to cut new tunnels to expand the range of the system and that he has been thwarted by better established contractors throughout the New York City area.
“Mr. Zazi has had a number of conversations with officials from the FBI. Those conversations have principally revolved his efforts to expand the much overtaxed New 
York City subway system. Mr. Zazi has been spending a great deal of time plotting and planning this expansion and on the eve of breaking ground he was hauled in to be questioned,” said Zazi’s lawyer. “We believe this has questioning isa result of the strangleholds certain contractors have over the transit system in New York. For decades a select few contractors have done all of the work on the system making it very difficult for new people and companies to break through, These companies hold a great deal of power and they are using that power to destroy the reputation of my client and inhibit his ability to make a living.” 
Zazi has been out of work for two months. He has apparently received extensive construction training in his home country and in Pakistan where he has travelled frequently in recent months. Zazi’s efforts have apparently been on the radar for at least a year.
“Aside from contractors being very protective of their territory there is an issue with taking on such a major excavation by oneself. Aside from the fact that he apparently had little or no help those kinds of things really need approval from city officials and often are actually initiated by those bodies,” said Scrape TV Crime analyst
Willard Weston. “That’s where he’s really going to run into trouble. He may very well have run afoul of the better established contractors in the city but now he is going to have to deal with real charges. Simply put you need permits and need to meet specific safety criteria for these kinds of efforts and apparently he had Zazi had none of that.”
Much of the questioning by the FBI is believed to revolve around the status of permits, something which has become a major issue across the country since the recession began.
“You have to applaud someone who is willing to make such a significant effort to get
up on his feet and that is exactly what the U.S. economy needs but there are rules that one has to abide by. Those rules are in place for a reason and when you ignore them you are going to get into trouble,” continued Weston. “Many small contractors have complained about the stranglehold certain companies hold over the city of New York but they always follow the rule no matter how wronged they might be. That is what is going to ultimately be Zazi’s downfall. If he had just gotten the right permits things would have turned out a lot different.”
It’s believed that the FBI has already confiscated Zazi’s excavation equipment.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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