Visa Fraud Charges: Ahmed Abassi

Ahmed Abassi: WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - U.S. authorities on Thursday announced visa fraud charges against a Tunisian man who prosecutors said had met with a key figure in an alleged plot to blow up a railroad line in Canada that carries Amtrak trains between Toronto and New York, according to Reuters. Among the plots that Abassi allegedly discussed was "contaminating the air or water with bacteria in order to kill up to 100,000 people," prosecutors said in the letter. But they said that Esseghaier was "dismissive" of that plan and that no steps were ever taken to carry it out and By Mark Hosenball and Bernard Vaughan In a letter filed in federal court in New York, prosecutors said the man, Ahmed Abassi, 26, who had lived in Canada, was recorded by a U.S. undercover agent discussing various "proposed terrorist plots" with Chiheb Esseghaier, another Tunisian suspect. Esseghaier is now being held by Canadian authorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.