NEW YORK, Aug 11: A Pakistani man living in New York admitted to meeting Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan where he also set up a training camp for extremists and worked to aid a plot to blow up pubs, train stations and restaurants in Britain , according to court papers released on Tuesday.

The man, Mohammed Junaid Babar, also acknowledged scheming to smuggle money, night-vision goggles and other equipment to the Al Qaeda network, according to a transcript which was made public two months after Mr Babar secretly pleaded guilty to charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization. He agreed to cooperate with authorities as part of a plea deal.

In the plea deal, Mr Babar told Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court that he sent military gear and money to South Waziristan in the summer of 2003 and then travelled there himself with equipment and money in March 2004.

In court papers, Mr Babar said he had met the unnamed Al Qaeda leader and turned over equipment, including sleeping bags, waterproof socks and ponchos. He also admitted to have bought aluminium powder and trying to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which can be used to make explosives.

"I understood that the money and supplies that I had given to Al Qaeda was supposed to be used in Afghanistan you know, against the US or international forces, or the Northern Alliance," he said.

Mr Babar, who faces up to 70 years in prison, was arrested by a police sergeant, a detective and two agents from the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force shortly after he returned from Pakistan in April, law-enforcement officials said.

During the court proceedings, Mr Babar told the judge that he had set up a training camp for extremists. "One of the things that we did was I set up a Jihad training camp where those who wanted to go into Afghanistan, where they could learn how to use weapons, and also, you know, any explosive devices that they wanted to test out over there," he said.

Assistant US Attorney Lisa Baroni said that investigators had documents and other evidence proving the case against Babar. US authorities had previously refused to comment on reports in June about the secret plea.

Mr Babar, who grew up in Queens New York, was put on a terror watch list after authorities became aware of inflammatory remarks he made to a Canadian television reporter in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Mr Babar reportedly asserted in the interview that despite the fact his mother had escaped from the ninth floor of one of the World Trade Center's towers, his loyalty was "to the Muslims, not the Americans".

He also announced his intention to fight along with the Taliban in Afghanistan. "I'm willing to kill Americans," he said in the televised interview, adding that he had no plans to return to New York.