Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammed Ghouse a suspected terrorist wanted to visit the United States & spread terror there, he has told interrogators. Since it was difficult to gain entry into the US, Ghouse had twice supplicate with terrorist leaders to at least send him to Iraq to work as a fidayeen an extremist who equips himself with arms and ammunition & strikes a target, causing mass destruction. However, the terrorist leaders persuaded him to drop the idea as they thought “there is so much to do in India”. Ghouse, who was well informed about post-9/11 incidents, grudged the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Investigations have revealed that Ghouse visited Mecca thrice for umrah (a pilgrimage undertaken during the non-Haj season), on a family passport that had a validity of 10 years up to December 2006. He first visited Mecca as a child in 1996. In 2005, during his second trip, he met Abdul Samad, brother of South India’s most wanted terrorist, Shahid Bilal, and reportedly expressed his willingness to go to Iraq as a fidayee to fight American forces.