Kosovo's terrorism ties: Sherifi targetted Marine Corps in Virginia, Kaziu wanted to buy arms for Al-Qaida

Two North Carolina terrorism suspects, including Kosovo Albanian Hysen Sherifi, plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and one of them obtained maps of a Marine Corps base in Virginia to plan an attack, an indictment said.

A superseding indictment returned against Daniel Patrick Boyd and Sherifi is the first time authorities have said the homegrown terrorism ring had specific targets.

"These additional charges hammer home the grim reality that today's homegrown terrorists are not limiting their violent plans to locations overseas, but instead are willing to set their sights on American citizens and American targets, right here at home," U.S. Attorney George Holding said in a statement.

Authorities have previously said the men went on training expeditions in the weeks leading up to their arrest in July, practicing military tactics with armor-piercing bullets on a property in rural North Carolina. Seven men are awaiting trial in the case, and investigators say an eighth suspect is believed to be in Pakistan.

An initial indictment had accused the men of plotting international terrorism and conspiring to support terrorism, and investigators have said some of the men took trips to Jordan, Kosovo, Pakistan and Israel "to engage in violent jihad." There was never any sign that the suspects had considered any targets in the United States.

In a separate indictment, US authorities announced the indictment of another Kosovo Albanian, Betim Kaziu,  who traveled overseas intent on joining a terrorist group and fighting United States forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

Authorities said the man, Betim Kaziu, 21, a former building porter who was born and raised in Brooklyn, flew  to Cairo in February in the first leg of a journey he hoped would take him to Pakistan for militant training. Authorities said that while in Egypt he made repeated attempts to buy weapons and tried to join a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.  In addition, authorities said. Kaziu made efforts to travel to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

In a three-page indictment, unsealed Thursday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, authorities said Kaziu eventually made it to Kosovo, where he was arrested.

He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

A federal magistrate on Thursday ordered him held without bail.

"This case is a textbook example of a successful international effort to investigate and apprehend those who would engage in terrorist acts and pre-empt their plots," Benton J. Campbell, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, said in a statement.

In August, Kaziu notified his family to say he was off to Kosovo and Macedonia, the family's ancestral home, to visit friends and relatives, Ms. Kaziu said. They did not hear from him again for weeks, then learned that he had been arrested with three other men in Kosovo. A foreign news account said the men were arrested on suspicion that they planned to commit terrorist acts, and it said weapons, including two AK-47s and five hand grenades, were found in searches of locations associated with the c