"These individuals were selected for interviews because they fit the criteria of persons who might have knowledge of foreign-based terrorists".
"As in the first round of interviews, these visitors to our country have been selected for interviews because they fit the criteria of persons who might have knowledge of foreign-based terrorists," Mr. Ashcroft said in an address to the United States attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., outside Washington.
The police found documents showing Ms. Siddiqui's contacts with terrorist organizations, notes about bomb making, and maps and sketches of foreign bases in Afghanistan, General Farahi said.
Are 1,000 U.S. foreign bases really necessary?
India has lost 60,000 innocent lives to terrorists, the majority of whom are non-Kashmiris belonging to foreign terrorist organizations based in Pakistan.
In 1997, the State Department designated Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization, based on its participation in the bombing that killed 241 United States marines in Beirut in 1983 and the kidnapping of Western hostages in Lebanon.
He was named as "Boris, Victor Anatoliyevich Bout, Victor But, Viktor Budd, Viktor Butt, Viktor Bulakinor Bulakin," "Vadim Markovich Aminov," along with his alleged associate, Andrew Smulian and accused of "conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – a designated foreign terrorist organisation based in Colombia".
Recent foreign policy -- based on the idea of maintaining the United States as the most powerful nation and de facto policeman of the globe -- is, they wrote, precisely what has made it the target of terrorist attack.
Mr Mehsud's fief, in particular, is reported to have become a hub for Pakistani and foreign jihadist terrorists.
It is supposed to target foreigners: foreign spies and foreign terrorists.
(Also, incidentally, automatic asylum for foreign refugees, even terrorists).
