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SAN FRANCISCO -- A lead FBI agent on Tuesday linked two local Muslim clerics to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, contending the two were planning to set up a school near Lodi that would breed anti-American terrorism. The agent testified that Lodi clerics Shabbir Ahmed and Mohammed Adil Khan were prepared to relay information on terrorist plots from sources close to bin Laden. The allegations were dismissed by Ahmed's lawyer, who said the FBI and federal prosecutors have "made the whole thing up." The striking allegations came during an immigration hearing for Ahmed at which Immigration Judge Anthony Murry...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/20/02 Kabul, bakery, Independence Day parade, National Museum, Little League baseball, Kandahar, Zhare Dasht, Bagram, bakery, Shiberghan, Red Cross, Islamabad, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Haq, Teerat, Pakistan, Karachi, Shamzai, Washington, legal action ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, at the Independence Day parade. commemorating Afghanistan's independence from the British in 1919. Some crowd control, some men dancing with guns. In Kabul, at the parade, both women and Afghan bodybuilders, freed by the USA, took part. at the Kabul National Museum, Buddhist statues. They have been hidden and recovered from smugglers. The Taliban broke or stole ~...