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3 charged with plotting U.S. terror attacks
AP/MSNBC ^ | April 12, 2005 | ap

Posted on 04/12/2005 11:13:26 AM PDT by prairiebreeze

WASHINGTON - Three suspected terrorists on Tuesday were indicted on charges that they targeted financial buildings in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., in a plot that prompted federal authorities to raise the terrorism threat assessment level in the area last summer.

A four-count indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses Dhiran Barot, Nadeem Tarmohammed and Qaisar Shaffi of scouting the New York Stock Exchange and Citicorp Building in New York, the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J., and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia. The three men, already in custody in England, were charged with three conspiracy counts and providing material support to terrorists.

Described as senior al-Qaida figure U.S. officials claim that Barot is a senior al-Qaida figure, known variously as Abu Eisa al-Hindi, Abu Musa al-Hindi and Issa al-Britani, who scouted the financial targets in the United States at the behest of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors say the men conducted surveillance on the buildings between August 2000 and April 2001, including video surveillance in Manhattan around April 2001.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alhindi; alqaeda; barot; citicorp; foiled; gwot; imf; indictment; jihadinamerica; nyse; paulcrotty; plotthwarted; tarmohammed; terrortrials; usattacks; worldbank
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U.S. officials claim that Barot is a senior al-Qaida figure, known variously as Abu Eisa al-Hindi, Abu Musa al-Hindi and Issa al-Britani, who scouted the financial targets in the United States at the behest of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
1 posted on 04/12/2005 11:13:26 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
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2 posted on 04/12/2005 11:15:08 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: prairiebreeze

Good, catch the bastards


3 posted on 04/12/2005 11:15:19 AM PDT by Polak z Polski
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"Exxx-cellent..."


4 posted on 04/12/2005 11:20:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: prairiebreeze

It's probably only a matter of time before they're released.


5 posted on 04/12/2005 11:23:03 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: prairiebreeze

Kind of amazing how these things happen under the guidance of that incompetent administration who is doing nothing to combat terrorism in the US while devoting all of our resources to the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.(;-} (reckon you'd call that a run on sentence)


6 posted on 04/12/2005 11:23:04 AM PDT by Flint
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7 posted on 04/12/2005 11:24:50 AM PDT by MississippyMuddy (No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
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To: prairiebreeze
Dhiran Barot, Nadeem Tarmohammed and Qaisar Shaffi

Those names don't sound like white American males so I expect they'll be out on their own recognizance soon.

8 posted on 04/12/2005 11:28:17 AM PDT by hattend (Liberals! Beware the Perfect Rovian Storm [All Hail the Evil War Monkey King, Chimpus Khan!])
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Dhiran Barot, Nadeem Tarmohammed and Qaisar Shaffi

And yet our airport security STILL can't "profile" passengers!

9 posted on 04/12/2005 11:28:34 AM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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To: The KG9 Kid

We think alike


10 posted on 04/12/2005 11:29:04 AM PDT by hattend (Liberals! Beware the Perfect Rovian Storm [All Hail the Evil War Monkey King, Chimpus Khan!])
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To: hattend

Great minds think alike...at the same time!


11 posted on 04/12/2005 11:29:22 AM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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To: Flint

Y'know, if you include "porous borders" and "spending like a druken sailor" you'd have a complete left-to-right ripping of Bush.


12 posted on 04/12/2005 11:30:05 AM PDT by BJClinton
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To: Yossarian

Yep


13 posted on 04/12/2005 11:30:12 AM PDT by hattend (Liberals! Beware the Perfect Rovian Storm [All Hail the Evil War Monkey King, Chimpus Khan!])
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To: hattend

OK, this is getting freaky!


14 posted on 04/12/2005 11:30:34 AM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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To: MississippyMuddy

That picture is soooo wrong.

The noose is empty!!! =P


15 posted on 04/12/2005 11:33:33 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on.....)
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U.S. V. DHIRIN BAROT, NADEEM TARMOHAMED, AND QAISAR SHAFFI
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

The formerly sealed federal terror indictment accusing three (3) men of conducting surveillance of financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, International Monetary Fund, Citigroup, and the Prudential headquarters in preparation for plotting terror attacks in the United States.

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usalhindiind.html

David N. Kelley, The U.S. Attorney Prosecuting The Case
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3335476_1

Criminal Law Center
http://criminal.findlaw.com/

Terror-Related Cases
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/cases/index.html

Terrorism Laws
http://news.fi! ndlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/laws.html


16 posted on 04/12/2005 11:37:39 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: prairiebreeze

Tried to search opensevcrets. Oddly enough the only Shaffir it returns donated to ACT and works for CBS.


17 posted on 04/12/2005 11:47:24 AM PDT by Bogey78O (*tagline removed per request*)
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To: prairiebreeze
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those names have a distinctly Islamic ring to them. Perhaps the nice people from CAIR will set the record straight. It is a Religion of Peace, doncha know.
18 posted on 04/12/2005 11:51:02 AM PDT by Redcloak (But what do I know? I'm just a right-wing nut in his PJs whackin' on a keyboard..)
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This morning there was some former New York prosecutor saying that he thinks there is something fishy about the indictments being sealed for so long, and he hinted it was political.

Since they are in custody in Britain, I imagine that the Brits had someting to do with it.

However, in the continuing Democrat tradition of making everything that the administration does seem bad, I expect this question to come up when Gonzalez has a news conference later today.

19 posted on 04/12/2005 11:54:53 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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Nadeem Tarmohammed

Nadeem and I agree: Tar Mohammed! Feather him too!

20 posted on 04/12/2005 12:05:43 PM PDT by Yossarian (Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
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