| NEW YORK: A Pakistani man was charged on Wednesday with lying to the FBI about a bogus terrorist plot to destroy the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Tanveer Chaudhry (32), who had a pending application for asylum in the US, allegedly concocted the story to win favour from authorities. He was charged with making false statements and awaited arraignment in federal court. Court papers allege Tanveer contacted the FBI on October 1 to report a customer at the gas station where he worked tried to enlist him in an attack on the bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. He claimed the customer and unidentified "brothers" wanted to hijack two gasoline trucks so they could "burn the bridge", and offered him $5,000 to join the plot. |