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<p>FBI agents have arrested eight men in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania in a suspected scheme by Islamic extremists to engage in "holy jihad" to drive India out of the disputed Kashmir territory in South Asia.</p> <p>The men, along with three others, were named in a 41-count federal grand jury indictment handed up in U.S. District Court in Alexandria accusing them of conspiracy to "prepare for and engage in violent jihad" against foreign targets in Kashmir, the Philippines and Chechnya. Nine of the 11 were identified as U.S. citizens.</p>

WASHINGTON: One of the three men who appeared in a US court on charges of running a local 'jehad' network has admitted to receiving arms training in northern Virginia and LeT's terror camp in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir for a possible mission in Jammu & Kashmir. While the three accused pleaded guilty of "conspiracy and gun charges" in the Federal Court in Virginia on Monday, Yong Ki Kwon admitted that, besides in US, he recieved training at a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Pakistan. At the LeT camp, Kwon said he fired weapons ranging from machine guns to rocket-propelled grenades. Kwon, Khwaja Mahmood Hasan and...