Pakistan lays out terror charges for 5 Americans

Yahoo AP ^ | March 2, 2010 | NABIL YOUSAF,

[La Lydia]

SARGODHA, Pakistan – Prosecutors seeking to indict five Americans on terrorist charges submitted their case to a Pakistani judge Tuesday, accusing the men of waging war against Pakistan and plotting to attack the country. All young Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area, the five were arrested in December in Punjab province not long after reaching Pakistan. They were reported missing by their families in November ...

A senior police officer said soon after the men's arrest that authorities were likely to deport them, but it now looks increasingly like they will face trial in Pakistan on charges that carry a maximum term of life imprisonment. The men could be indicted on as many as seven charges at their next hearing on March 10, lawyer Hamid Malik told The Associated Press. The judge ordered the defense to review the prosecution report and to prepare a rebuttal.

Pakistani police have publicly made several accusations against the young men, claiming the suspects contacted Pakistani-based jihadi groups. They accused the five of using the social networking site Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube while they were in the U.S. to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan...

The U.S. has pressed an often reluctant Pakistan to crack down on militants on its territory, many of whom are believed involved in attacks on American and NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan. At the same time, several recent cases have highlighted incidences of foreigners signing up to join the insurgents on both sides of the border. Two of the detained Americans are of Pakistani origin, while one is of Egyptian, one of Yemeni and one of Eritrean descent.

[La Lydia]

Let the Pakistanis keep them and deal with them. The last thing we want is for them to be allowed to return here. They are traitors who have spit on all this country offered them, and richly deserve to rot in a fifth-century Pakistani prison. Their parents should be deported back to their native hell holes, too, as a message to -- and to discourage -- potential copycats.

[SZonian]

Well, isn’t this special?

Now it’s “Americans”, not muslims who are terrorists.

I agree LL, let the Paki’s do what they want with these bags of crap.

[Dr. Ursus]

This State Department diversity visas that allow their
parents into this country is one of the dumbest things that
this country could do in time of war.

[La Lydia]

Any law or policy that allows Muslims to enter our country, or to become citizens, if the dumbest thing we can do. Should have been stopped cold after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Think how much grief we would have saved ourselves.