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<p>Three men caught with camera equipment on the grounds surrounding the nuclear power plant were arrested and interrogated by federal and local authorities.</p> <p>The trio, who police say came to the United States as teenagers from Iran, were spotted at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Saturday morning walking along a restricted beach near the plant. They were arrested on trespassing charges. The men told authorities they were hiking.</p>

TORONTO - An anti-terrorism probe that led to the arrest of 19 Pakistani men, including one who took commercial flight training over a nuclear power plant, highlights security holes that should have been plugged after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Ontario officials said. The Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Unit, a federal national security task force, quietly arrested the group of mostly young men last week. The men appear to have used fraudulent student visas to enter Canada or to maintain their residency here. Federal authorities documented a pattern of suspicious behaviour that shows an interest in Ontario's nuclear generators...

PUTNAM CO., WV, Nov. 5 - With the world as it is now, an attack at a power plant gets even more attention. And it comes just days after the news leaked that the coast guard was already looking for a suspicious boat in our region. At this point, the coast guard is not sure whether the two things are connected. It could be a coincidence. But here's the good thing out of this whole mess: AEP says it was a test that security passed. Putnam County Sheriff Stan Farley says, "Someone tried to come on the property." They ...

John Walker Lindh John Walker Lindh had a key role in busting an alleged Buffalo-area terror cell, helping the FBI connect its members to an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, the Daily News has learned. A source told The News that Lindh - who agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence on terror-related charges - was asked about the alleged terrorist cell in upstate Lackawanna after authorities ran into a dead end. The FBI had gotten a letter in June 2001 from a "concerned Yemenite" alleging that eight U.S. citizens of Yemeni descent were...

Mar 12, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- U.S. officials received a warning as early as 1995 that Islamic militants were plotting to attack an American nuclear site, but did not pass along the information to the agency that oversees nuclear facilities or to the plants themselves, The Associated Press has learned. The warning came in police interrogations of convicted terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad and from a computer seized in the Philippines from Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Both men were linked to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network, and...

MIAMI: Anti-terrorism agents have arrested a 22-year-old Miami resident who allegedly threatened to attack the White House and a power plant in Florida, local television reported Tuesday. Miami television station WSVN said Safraz Jaludi made a full confession following his arrest Monday by a south Florida joint anti-terrorism task force. Jaludi is accused to sending threats of "terrorist-type" attacks through the Internet, the TV station said. It said the suspect used his office computer, and a student computer at the Florida Arts Institute to send the threats to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The attacks allegedly were to take...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 29, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Two Muslim men plotted with an informant to bomb electrical transformers, a National Guard armory and Jews in South Florida, hoping to start a Holy War, government documents allege. Pakistani immigrants Imran Mandhai, 19, and Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, 24, were ordered held without bail Tuesday after U.S. Magistrate Lurana Snow reviewed transcripts of conversations they had with an informant in March and April 2001. Snow rejected arguments by Mandhai's and Jokhan's attorneys that they were bumbling amateurs whose militant fantasies were inflamed by the government informant, identified only...

SEATTLE - NBC News is reporting that the Space Needle in Seattle - a high-profile landmark in America's Pacific Northwest - was apparently a target for al-Qaida terrorists. U.S. officials tell NBC News evidence found in Afghanistan uncovered plans to attack the high-profile Space Needle along with other monuments in Washington State, including massive hydroelectric dams, like the Grand Coulee. According to the NBC News report, plans were also found that targeted the Los Angeles International Airport for a second time. An earlier plot to bomb the airport was foiled two years ago when convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam was arrested ...

Al-Qaida's Terror Manual Foretells Attacks on Nuclear Plants, Skyscrapers, Football Stadiums By Hamza Hendawi Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 2, 2002 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The instructions are simple but chilling: Attack sites with "high human intensity" like skyscrapers, nuclear plants and football stadiums. Pick targets of "sentimental value" like the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. That's some of the advice contained in an al-Qaida training manual aimed at teaching Osama bin Laden's followers the best ways to kill thousands of people and spread fear in the United States and Europe. The 11-volume "Manual of Afghan ...

Pakistani accused of "jihad' in Miami jail MIAMI, March 26 (Reuters) - A Pakistani man identified in a published report as a suspect in a plot to blow up power plants and other sites in south Florida was being held on Tuesday for deportation, a U.S. immigration official said. Citing law enforcement sources, The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Imran Mandhai, 19, of Hollywood, Florida, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service about a month ago. The law enforcement officials said Mandhai conspired last March and April to acquire guns and explosives for a "jihad" (holy...

The guy had mens' wigs, binoculars, cameras, video camera and tapes. He didn't have a green card and is a suspected terrorist. Breaking now on Fox News Channel