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United
States indicts three British nationals over alleged terrorist plans to attack
U.S. financial targets; defendants currently facing charges in the United
Kingdom
By Steven C. Welsh
April 14, 2005
The U.S. Department of Justice on April 12, 2005, announced the unsealing of
a four-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in the Southern
District of New York against three British nationals, Dhiren Barot, Nadeem
Tarmohamed, and Qaisar Shaffi, for conspiracy to use weapons of mass
destruction, providing material support and resources to terrorists, and
conspiracy to damage and destroy buildings used in interstate and foreign
commerce. The three defendants are among a group of eight suspects
arrested in the United Kingdom in August 2004 and charged under Britain’s
Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT) in connection with alleged surveillance and plans to
attack financial targets in Washington D.C., New York City, and New Jersey ...
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Terrorism
Indictment: British Islamic Cleric Abu Hamza al Masri
By Steven C. Welsh
June 8, 2004.
Attorney General John Ashcroft on May 27, 2004, announced an 11-count terrorism
indictment against British Muslim cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a/k/a Abu Hamza
al-Masri. The indictment alleges involvement with a 1998 hostage-taking in
Yemen, violent jihad in Afghanistan, and support for both the Taliban and al
Qaeda, the latter including attempts to help establish an al Qaeda training camp
in Oregon in 1999 and 2000.
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