Article: Bombs found in New York flat Two men charged with conspiring to explode devices in subways

Police seized five bombs in a raid on a Brooklyn apartment Thursday and later said one of three men arrested admitted that the explosives were to be used in terrorist attacks on New York's subway system.

Two of the men, Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, were shot and wounded in the apartment by police who feared the suspects were about to detonate the bombs. Both were in stable condition Thursday with multiple gunshot wounds at Kings County Hospital.

Investigators said Abu Mezer and Khalil had been in the United States for six months, were carrying passports from Jordan and had identified themselves as Palestinians.

In a complaint filed late Thursday in federal court in ...

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