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Mr. Dovaub's 17-page document was submitted to support a search warrant application. In the statement, Mr. Dovaub lists information on meetings between Mr. Ahmed and individuals the Virginia resident thought were al-Qaeda operatives. But those posing as the al-Qaeda members were actually working for the government, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press news agency. Mr. Ahmed was lured by email to his first meeting on 18 April near Washington-Dulles International Airport, Mr. Dovaub wrote. The suspect reportedly told the person he met near the airport that he was there because “he wanted to fight and kill Americans in Afghanistan”. Officials said that on 15 May, at a nearby hotel in Herndon, Virginia, Mr. Ahmed agreed to carry out surveillance on a hotel in Washington and a Metro station in Arlington, Virginia, to determine security and the busiest times. Mr. Ahmed, according to the indictment, later provided a USB stick with video of the station to a person he believed was from al-Qaeda. On 28 September, Mr. Ahmed allegedly handed over another USB drive with more images of stations. Mr. Ahmed has been indicted on three counts - for attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organisation, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility, and attempting to provide material support to help carry out multiple bombings. If convicted, he faces up to 50 years in prison. TEXT 2 SUICIDE BOMBER IN NORTH OSSETIA KILLS 11 From Times Online November 6, 2008 A suspected female suicide bomber today killed 11 people and wounded as many as 40 others in an attack in Russia’s restive North Caucasus. The bomber struck as passengers were leaving a minibus at a bus stop next to the central market in Vladikavkaz, capital of the North Ossetia region, officials said. Russian television showed the shattered vehicle with windows blown out and the corpses of several people lying among apples scattered on the ground around it. One woman was covered by a pink sheet with her handbag on top. President Medvedev ordered police and the Federal Security Service (FSB) to tighten security in the region, which borders South Ossetia, the focus of the war between Russia and Georgia in August. “According to preliminary information, the explosive device at the bus stop in the centre of Vladikavkaz was activated by a female suicide bomber,” a statement by the regional administration said. The North Ossetian President, Taimuraz Mamsurov, said later that the severed head of the alleged bomber had been recovered. Initial reports suggested that an exploding gas canister could have caused the tragedy, although local officials later rejected this explanation. Many vehicles in the region run on gas instead of petrol. Vladikavkaz is only a few miles from Beslan, scene of the school siege in 2004 that claimed the lives of more than 300 people taken hostage by Islamist separatists, including female suicide bombers, from neighbouring Chechnya. North Ossetia has a mainly Christian population and shares a border with South Ossetia, which was recognised as independent by Russia following the war with Georgia in August. — 31 — South Ossetians have made no secret, however, of their desire to unite with their ethnic kin inside Russia. There have been growing concerns over instability in the North Caucasus in recent months. Analysts have suggested that Russia’s decision to recognise South Ossetia and Georgia’s other breakaway region of Abkahzia has provoked a resurgence in separatism within its own borders. Seven police were reported to have been wounded in two bomb blasts in Ingushetia on Sunday, North Ossetia has declared Saturday a day of mourning for the victims of the bombing. TEXT 3 жүктеу/скачать 0,58 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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