 NEW YORK - US authorities on Monday formally outlined terrorist charges against Haroon Rashid Aswat, a Briton who was detained in London at the weekend after being deported from Zambia.
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A charge filed before a New York court accuses the 30-year-old Aswat, whose family is of Indian origin, of seeking to establish a terrorist training camp in the remote spot of Bly in Oregon. Aswat has been named in US and British media reports as the alleged mastermind behind the July 7 suicide bomb attacks in London, ciated with a Muslim preacher, who was not named in the charge, in the plan to set up the training camp in the northwestern US state which was to prepare volunteers to fight in Afghanistan. Plans for the Bly camp revolved around âbringing people from London and from the United States to the property for âjihadâ training.â The charge said that Aswat had training at a camp for militants in Afghanistan where he had once seen Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. |