Nov. 10 — The U.S. Department of Justice said a new indictment filed by federal prosecutors charges a dual Iranian-Iraqi national linked to Iraqi Shi'ite militia Kata'ib Hezbollah with participating in a plot from a federal prison in New York to attack a British airbase used by U.S. forces. Prosecutors identify the defendant as Mohammad Dawood Saadi and allege he used coded language on family calls to relay orders to plot participants. The indictment says Saadi conspired with a member of Iran's

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Nov. 10 — The U.S. Department of Justice said a new indictment filed by federal prosecutors charges a dual Iranian-Iraqi national linked to Iraqi Shi'ite militia Kata'ib Hezbollah with participating in a plot from a federal prison in New York to attack a British airbase used by U.S. forces. Prosecutors identify the defendant as Mohammad Dawood Saadi and allege he used coded language on family calls to relay orders to plot participants. The indictment says Saadi conspired with a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and another Iranian national.