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| | British police charge eight, including key al-Qaida suspect, with terrorist offenses in case related to U.S. alerts in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Barot was described as a trusted senior al-Qaida operative who was sent in early 2001 to do surveillance on possible economic and "Jewish" targets in New York on the orders of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, according to U.S. interrogations of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. |
 | | The British charges specify that Barot had the New York and Washington surveillance plans in his possession as early as Feb. 19, 2001, which would fit into that time frame. |
 | | Maps, photographs and other details of possible targets in the United States and Britain were found on computers belonging to Khan and to Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian indicted for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, who also was arrested in Pakistan, according to the officials. |
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