NATO authorities who raided a Saudi aid agency last fall found computer files containing photographs of terrorist targets and street maps of Washington with government buildings marked, a senior U.S. official disclosed Thursday.
The October raid of the Sarajevo office of the Saudi High Commissioner for Aid to Bosnia netted a computer program explaining how to use a crop duster to spread pesticide. Also seized were materials used to make fake credit cards and U.S. State Department identification badges, the official said.
The material included before and after photographs of past terrorist targets, including the World Trade Center and the destroyer USS Cole.
The agency was founded by Saudi Prince Selman bin Abdul-Aziz to help children orphaned during Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995. In the past, its officials have denied any terrorist ties.
The raid of the agency coincided with the arrests last October of six Algerian-born men, who were handed over to U.S. authorities for suspected terrorist activities.
