3 in US Charged With Conspiring to Commit Terrorist Acts
21 February 2006
Three men in the midwestern U.S. state of Ohio have been charged with planning attacks on U.S. military forces in Iraq and other countries.
At a news conference Tuesday in Washington, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the arrests and indictment of three individuals - Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman el-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum.
Gonzales says the men are charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and conspiracy to provide terrorists in the Middle East with material support.
Amawi is also charged with verbally threatening to kill or injure President Bush.
Amawi is a citizen of Jordan and the United States, El-Hindi is a U.S. citizen born in Jordan and Mazloum lives in the U.S.
The indictment accuses the men of recruiting people for jihad (holy war) as early as November, 2004, and of carrying out their own military training exercises.
They are also accused of conspiring to manufacture explosive devices to use against U.S. forces.
If convicted of the most serious charges, the men could face life in prison.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.
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