Pentagon officials have given the go-ahead for war crimes charges for a Pakistani man who grew up in the Baltimore suburbs and has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the last six years. Majid Khan is accused of joining al-Qaida on a visit to Pakistan and of plotting with senior terror leaders to blow up U.S. fuel tanks and assassinate Pakistan's then-President Pervez Musharraf via suicide bombing — a plan that failed only because Musharraf never showed up, prosecutors said. Khan was first caught in 2003 and held in a CIA prison where his lawyers say he was tortured. In 2006, when Khan was brought to Gitmo, his father told The Washington Post his son wasn't a terrorist but also said he had been "brainwashed."
