Terror suspect remains in custody

Mr Aswat was arrested in Zambia on immigration charges

A Briton wanted by US authorities after being accused of attempting to set up a terror training camp in Oregon has been remanded in custody by UK magistrates.

Haroon Rashid Aswat, of Dewsbury, West Yorks, was remanded in custody until 8 September by Bow Street magistrates.

Mr Aswat, 30, who denies the claims and says he will contest a US extradition request, was already in custody after a hearing at Belmarsh prison on Monday.

He had been arrested on Sunday after being deported from Zambia.

The Briton was arrested in the African country on 20 July on immigration charges and was held for two weeks before being deported.

The US authorities want to question him about an alleged attempt between October 1999 and April 2000 to set up a training camp in Bly, Oregon, to train people to "fight jihad" in Afghanistan.

The US warrant alleges that he "conspired with others to control and manage an association of persons in Bly, Oregon, who would be organised and trained, or organised and equipped, for the purpose of enabling them to be employed for the use or display of physical force in promoting a political object, namely to make hijrah to, and to fight jihad in, Afghanistan."

A second claim was that he conspired with others so that any training would "arouse reasonable apprehension" that people were being prepared to "fight jihad" in Afghanistan.