NEW YORK: A US federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted three Muslim men in Cleveland, Ohio, on charges that they planned attacks to kill US soldiers in Iraq and other countries.

According to CNN, Mohammad Zaki Amawi is accused of threatening in conversations to kill or injure President Bush.

He was also charged with distributing information about thr making and use of an explosive device.

The others are Marwan Othman El Hindi, a US citizen born in Jordan, and Wassim Mazloum, who came to the US from Lebanon in 2000.

Mr Amawi, a citizen of both the US and Jordan, was also accused of threatening to kill or injure President Bush, according to the indictment.

The indictment does not specify if any attacks were imminent, but says the suspects recruited others as early as Nov 2004 to train for a ‘jihad’ against the United States and its allies in Iraq.

Two of the men discussed plans to practice setting off explosives on July 4 last year so that the bombs would not be noticed, the indictment said.