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British anti-terror police charge eight
Anti-terrorism police have charged eight men with various offences, including conspiracy to murder. They were also charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by using radioactive material, toxic gas, chemicals or explosives. All eight will appear in Bow Street Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, Scotland Yard said on Tuesday. A ninth man arrested with them on 3 August was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon. The eight were named as Dhiren Barot; Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, 24, from Harrow, Middlesex; Abdul Aziz Jalil, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire; Omar Abdul Rehman, 20 from Bushey, Hertfordshire; Junade Feroze, 28, from Blackburn, Lancashire; Zia Ul Haq, 25, from Paddington, London; Qaisar Shaffi; and Nadeem Tarmohammed.Police charged them of conspiring "together and with other persons unknown" between 1 January 2000 and 4 August 2004 under the Criminal Law Act 1977. Under the Terrorism Act police had a deadline of Tuesday afternoon to charge them or release them, having questioned them for a fortnight. Three of the nine were also charged under the Terrorism Act 2000. Mr Barot, 32 and from Willesden, London, was also charged with possessing reconnaissance plans of the Stock Exchange in New York, the IMF in Washington, and the Citigroup in New York and having notebooks with information on explosives, poisons, chemicals and related matters. He was also charged with possessing a reconnaissance plan of the Prudential Building in New Jersey, U.S, as was Mr Tarmohammed, 26 and also of Willesden. The plans contained "information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000," police said. Mr Shaffi, 25, from Willesden, was charged with having an extract of the Terrorist's Handbook, Scotland Yard said. It was unclear which court the ninth man, Matthew Monks, 32, of Sudbury, would appear in and a date for his court appearance has not been set. Of course, these were just another bunch of innocent young Muslim men hounded whilst going about law-abiding business... Posted by: Bulldog 2004-08-17 |
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