Sipah-e-Sahaba member arrested from NY

NEW YORK: The ring leader of defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba was arrested from New York city the other day, reported New York Post on Thursday.

Tariq Javed a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba which is aligned with Al Qaeda and International Islamic front was seen taking pictures last year of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges in New York city was arrested yesterday for allegedly lying on his immigration papers about his terror links, officials said.

He had declared jihad against Americans, according to the complaint issued by Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley.

Group members were also implicated in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Afghanistan in 2003. The government of Pakistan has banned the group as a destabilizing force according to post.

Anti-terror investigators had been tracking Javed's movements around the city for several years after getting tipped off that a suspected terrorist cell located on Newkirk Avenue in Brooklyn a Pakistani immigrants neighborhood was planning to bomb a subway station.

Meanwhile, a man on the terror watch list was arrested last night by New Jersey police in Bergen County. Sami Ibrahim Isa Ardel Hadi had a valid ID to work as a painter on the George Washington Bridge a painting job all the work on the project has been halted and ordered to produce the legal documents of the workers a special task force has already tracking down illegal immigrants through motor vehicles and driving licences.