By Hannah Thomas-Peter, US Correspondent
Photographs of what prosecutors say were potential terror targets in Manchester have been shown in an open court for the first time.
The images were recovered from a drive US government lawyers say belonged to Tariq ul-Rehman.
He is an alleged co-conspirator of accused terrorist Abid Naseer, who is on trial in a federal court in New York.
Pakistani Naseer, 28, is charged with playing a major part in a co-ordinated al Qaeda plot in 2009 to target New York, Manchester and Copenhagen.
The photos revealed to the court show ul-Rehman posing in front of Manchester's Arndale shopping centre and other busy public spaces.
A second batch showed ul-Rehman and an unidentified male posing near entrances, exits and shops at the Arndale centre.
Ul-Rehman was one of 12 men arrested in terror raids in the North West of England in 2009.
The raids happened because police believed an attack was just days away.
They had been forced to rush in after the UK's most senior counter-terror officer, Bob Quick, allowed documents relating to the planned raid to be photographed on his way in to Downing Street.
All 12 men, including Ul-Rehman and Abid Naseer, were released without charge, but Naseer was extradited to the US in 2013.
In her opening arguments, prosecutor Celia Cohen said she would show the court the images, which were made to look like tourist photos, but were actually reconnaissance for an attack designed to "replicate the devastation of 9/11".
Prosecutors say that Naseer and his alleged co-conspirators visited potential targets to calculate where they might do most damage.
Ms Cohen told the court the defendant selected the Arndale shopping centre and chose an area to target with lots of glass fronted shops in order to maximise casualties.
During legal argument the court also heard new details of documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
They are expected to be shown in full next week after the judge ruled they were admissible.
The court is also expected to hear the testimony of serving undercover MI5 intelligence officers, who will give evidence in wigs and make-up in order to protect their identities.
Naseer, who is representing himself, denies all the charges against him.
If convicted he faces life in prison.
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