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INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "ICNA's RADICAL READING LIST" (SNIPPET: "When five young Americans disappeared from the greater D.C. area last November, only to be arrested a week later in Pakistan where they allegedly sought to join the jihad against Americans, people wondered why." SNIPPET: "Much of the initial focus was drawn to the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the organization to which all five young men belonged.") (April 27, 2010)

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Hat Tip: JIHAD WATCH.org
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/us-jihadis-in-pakistani-jail-change-their-story-say-they-werent-waging-jihad-after-all.html

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/15/AR2010051503548.html

“5 Virginia men facing terrorism charges in Pakistan write of ‘noble’ motivation”
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 16, 2010

SNIPPET: “For the first time since they were arrested Dec. 9, the five young Muslim men from the Alexandria area facing life in prison in Pakistan on terrorism charges presented their side of the story Saturday, handwritten on pink paper and delivered to the judge in a closed court inside a high-security prison in the eastern Pakistani city of Sarghoda.

Throughout the prosecution’s case, which concluded Saturday, Pakistani police have maintained that the five secretly and abruptly left their homes, families, college classes and jobs to wage jihad against Americans in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States. Police and court records charge that the five made contact with a known al-Qaeda operative through social-networking Web sites and that they communicated via a shared e-mail account: ramadanhaji99@yahoo.com.”