NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 2: U.S. Marshals stand outside U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn during the arraignment on terrorism charges of two Queens women, identified as 28-year-old Noelle Velentzas and 31-year-old Asia Siddiqui, as well as American citizen and accused Al Queda member Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh, 29, April 2, 2015 in New York City. Velentzas and Siddiqui supposedly discussed potential plots online and expressed admiration for terrorist attacks but are presumed not to have constructed an explosive device. al Farekh was apprehended and Pakistan and secretly flown to New York, and is accused of being a top operative for the terrorist organization. (Photo by Victor J. Blue/Getty Images)
A U.S. citizen already accused of going to Pakistan to train with al-Qaida was charged Wednesday with helping build explosives for a 2009 suicide attack on an American military base in Afghanistan. A revised indictment charges Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh with conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and other crimes. He is to appear Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn.
