Never mind
Apparently their avowal of jihad didn’t help them as much as they thought it would. An update on, and reversal of, this story. “Five American Muslims retract statement on joining Jihad,” from PTI, February 2:
LAHORE: Five American Muslims arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan today retracted their statement about plans to join the jehad against US forces during an appearance in an anti-terrorism court.
When the young men were produced in the anti-terrorism court in Sargodha district of Punjab province, they told the judge that they were innocent and had neither committed any crime nor had plans to do so.
The men–Ramy Zamzam, 22, Waqar Hussain Khan, 22, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, 20, Iman Hasan Yemer, 17 and Omar Farooq, 24 also told the court that they had been subjected to torture by the FBI and the Pakistani police.
The FBI had sent a team to Pakistan last month to question the youths. The youths slipped a note written on toilet paper to the media while leaving the court. The note read: “We have done nothing wrong. Please help us.” The court adjourned the hearing of the case against them till February 16.
Earlier, police had submitted a chargesheet in the court that alleged the US nationals wanted to join hands with militants fighting in Afghanistan. The chargesheet also said they had plans to target important installations in Pakistan and to embrace ‘shahadat’ (martyrdom).
Senior police officials had also said that the youths had confessed that they had come to Pakistan to travel to Afghanistan to join the jehad against US forces in that country….