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Tuesday, June 22, 2004 WAR ON TERRORAl-Qaida suspect tied to U.S.-UK jihad groupAlleged sleeper agent nabbed by FBI part of cell operating in Queens, N.Y. Posted: June 22, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com An American citizen living in Queens arrested by the FBI, and who has admitted to being a sleeper agent for al-Qaida, has ties to a British-based Islamic extremist organization with still more agents operating in the New York borough, WorldNetDaily has learned. Mohammed Junaid Babar, a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, was secretly taken into custody in April and is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional...

June 18, 2004 -- A Queens man detained secretly in New York since April in connection with a foiled London bomb plot told authorities that al Qaeda is planning more attacks on American soil, U.S. counterterrorism officials said yesterday. The information that Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, provided was part of the overall intelligence that prompted Attorney General John Ashcroft to warn last month that Osama bin Laden's terrorists inside America are "almost ready" for another attack, the officials said. Babar, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent who grew up in Queens, was picked up in April as he headed to...

NEW YORK -- A Queens man has been jailed secretly since April on suspicions he joined a Pakistani terrorism cell in a plot against targets in London, officials said Wednesday. The suspect, Mohammed Junaid Babar, was detained by the Joint Terrorism Task Force on April 10 as a material witness, according to two law enforcement officials. Babar has been in custody since then at the Metropolitan Detention Center in lower Manhattan. One of the officials, who both spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, alleged Babar aided a plot to "blow up pubs, restaurants and train stations" in...

June 17, 2004 -- A New York man has been jailed secretly since April on suspicions he joined a Pakistani terrorism cell in a plot against targets in London. Mohammed Junaid Babar was detained by the Joint Terrorism Task Force on April 10 as a material witness, two law-enforcement officials said yesterday. One of the officials said Babar aided a plot to "blow up pubs, restaurants and train stations" in London.

June 16, 2004 — A suspected terrorist in U.S. custody has been cooperating with authorities and has suggested al Qaeda was planning more attacks in the United States, ABC News has learned. The terror cell Babar is allegedly associated with in London was under British surveillance for months, according to sources familiar with the investigation. Members of the terror cell spoke openly of launching attacks and purchased nearly a ton of ammonium nitrate, one of the key ingredients used in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. The FBI is currently working...