US ‘jihad seekers’ awarded 10 years imprisonment by Pak court
June 24th, 2010 - 4:26 pm ICT by ANIIslamabad, June 24 (ANI): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday awarded 10 years imprisonment to each of the five US terror suspects who were arrested from Punjab province’s Sargodha District in December 2009.
Waqar Husain Khan, 22 (Virginia), Ahmed Abdullah Mani, 20 (Virginia), Ramay S Zamzam, 22 (Egypt), Iman Hasan Yamar, 17 (California), and Omar Farouk, 24 (Virginia) were arrested on charges of plotting terror attacks across Pakistan, The News reports.
The five ‘jihad seekers’ had visited a religious seminary linked to the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in Hyderabad and were on their way to terror camps based in the volatile Waziristan region.
According to reports, prosecutors argued before the court that there was substantial evidence such as e-mail records and witness statements to back up their contention that the men were plotting terror attacks in Pakistan.
The jihad seekers had pleaded innocence, saying they were being ’set up’ and tortured by the FBI and the Pakistani police in custody. (ANI)
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