8 men charged with terror offenses
All eight are accused of conspiring together and with unknown persons to commit murder.They also were charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by using radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and/or explosives to cause a disruption.
Barot and Tarmohammed were charged with possessing documents or information that could be “useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism” because authorities said they had a “reconnaissance plan concerning the Prudential Building in New Jersey.”
Barot also was charged with possessing a reconnaissance plan concerning the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup in New York and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, the statement said.
Update: Notes James Joyner:
Coincidentally, those are the same sites targeted by the non-existent terrorists in the non-existent plot that Tom Ridge announced in his blatantly political attempt to distract attention during the Democratic National Convention, using old, irrelevant information.I question the timing of CNN’s report.
Indeed.