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Three charged in plot to attack targets in U.S.
By wire services
Published April 13, 2005
WASHINGTON - Three men with suspected al-Qaida ties, already in British custody, were charged Tuesday with a yearslong plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other East Coast financial institutions.
A four-count indictment returned by a New York City grand jury alleges the men, all British citizens, visited and conducted surveillance of the buildings and surrounding neighborhoods between August 2000 and April 2001.
Dhiran Barot, 33, Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, and Qaisar Shaffi, 26, already face terrorism-related charges in Britain, with that trial scheduled to begin in January.
Confirmation hearings
John Negroponte, the nominee to be the nation's intelligence director, promised fundamental changes at the 15 agencies he'll oversee and said he would give policymakers the "unvarnished truth" about threats. Negroponte, expected to be approved this week by the intelligence panel, and eventually by the full Senate, said that he must bring together "fiefdoms" at the Pentagon, CIA, Justice Department and Homeland Security Department. ... John Bolton appeared closer to confirmation as ambassador to the United Nations despite testimony Tuesday by Carl Ford Jr., a former State Department intelligence chief, that he was a "serial abuser" of analysts who disagreed with him.
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