By Arun Kumar

Washington, June 7(IANS) As new details emerged of what a group of 17 rounded up in Canada's terror plot was allegedly planning, it became apparent that they had nothing to do with India.

While probe teams looked for clues in seven other countries, including Bangladesh, the alleged architects of a massive terror plot made their second appearance in a Toronto court Tuesday. Canadian media quoted the police to suggest that intelligence officers were looking for links between the 17 suspects and Islamic terror cells abroad.

Investigators were reported to be looking for connections between the group of 17 and Islamic militants held in the US, Britain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark and Sweden besides Canada.

Some of the Canadian suspects are alleged to have been in contact via computer with two American nationals from Georgia, one of Pakistani origin and the other from Bangladesh, who were charged earlier this year in another terrorism case.

The Georgia men, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed travelled to Washington to shoot 'casing videos' of the Capitol seat of the US Congress, the World Bank and other potential targets in the American capital.

The Washington Times cited a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) affidavit to say the two had travelled to Canada to meet with at least three other targets of an ongoing FBI terrorism investigation in March 2005. They also planned to travel to Pakistan to get military training at a terrorist camp.

Among a chilling miscellany of possible terrorist attacks the group of 17 was charged with in Toronto were bombings, an armed assault on parliament and even beheading of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

An accused with an 'Indian sounding name', 25-year-old restaurant worker Steven Chand, allegedly wanted to personally behead the Canadian prime minister. Chand, bearded with shoulder-length hair, blew a kiss to supporters in the courtroom as he was led away in shackles and handcuffs.

Chand, Asad Ansari (21), Fahim Ahmad (21), Zakaria Amara (20), Qayyum Abdul Jamal (43), Amin Mohamed Durrani (19), Jahmaal James (23), Saad Khalid (19), Ahmad Mustafa Ghany (21), and the five youths, none of whom can be identified, are all scheduled to return to court June 12.