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ATLANTA (AP) — Armed with a handheld video camera, a Georgia university student drove with a friend in April 2005 to Washington, D.C., and captured scenes of the Capitol, the Pentagon and other locations. Investigators say Syed Haris Ahmed, now 24, wasn't a tourist but a wannabe terrorist who wanted to send the videos of potential terror targets to an overseas contact. He was attending the Georgia Institute of Technology at the time. The charges, along with an allegation that Ahmed went to Pakistan and tried to join a terrorism group a few months later, are central to a federal...

WASHINGTON: American terrorism experts are now warning that the next major attack on the US soil may come from militants associated with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and not al-Qaeda. Juan Zarate, the deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism in the Bush administration, told the Chicago Tribune that even before the Mumbai terrorist attacks last November, the FBI and other US intelligence agencies were focusing on LeT as the next big threat to US security. ‘We are and should be concerned about the threat LeT poses, given its global network,’ said Zarate in an interview published on Sunday. ‘It doesn’t just reside in South...

TRUTH in the David Hicks affair remains as elusive as ever after fresh allegations this week from inside the US military that the Guantanamo Bay commissions are so seriously flawed that a fair trial is impossible. The most damaging blows yet to the commissions -- still supported by the Howard Government -- came from three US Air Force prosecutors involved in the trials who have quit the investigation in protest. One, John Carr, said the process appeared to have been rigged and that the first four cases -- including Hicks -- had been been "handpicked" and would not be acquitted....

Bin Laden doctor joins ‘jihadi’ relief work A Pakistani doctor who once treated Osama bin Laden is among hundreds of volunteers from an Islamic group who are participating in relief work in quake-hit areas of Pakistan and Kashmir. "We have sent 50 trucks carrying relief goods to Kashmir and those areas of north-western Pakistan where the quake killed thousands of people," said Yahya Mujahid, spokesman for Jamat-e-Dawad group, which describes itself as a charity. The group is headed by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a senior cleric who founded the anti-India Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in 1989. Lashkar-e-Tayyaba was banned by Pakistani president Pervez...

<p>BOMBAY &#8212; Police charged four persons yesterday with terrorist acts in India's financial hub, accusing them of setting off three bombs that killed 55 persons to avenge the death of Muslims in religious riots last year.</p> <p>The suspects &#8212; including a married couple and their teenage daughter &#8212; were arrested under India's terrorism law and could face the death penalty.</p>

WANA, Pakistan – In Pakistan's wild country along the Afghan border, al-Qaeda fugitives and homegrown Islamic extremists are teaming up to confront Pakistan's government and its U.S. allies. Pakistanis and Afghans familiar with extremist organizations say their aim is to punish President Pervez Musharraf for abandoning the Afghan Taliban and banning several militant groups in Pakistan in connection with the U.S.-led war on terrorism. Police fear the kidnapping and slaying of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl and the March 17 grenade attack on an Islamabad church attended by foreigners may be examples of what the extremists have in store....