Five American Muslims Retract Statement on Joining Jihad
February 2, 2010 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
Apparently a few weeks in a Pakistani jail will give you plenty of time to rethink the idea of jihad. Five American Muslims arrested for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan today retracted their statement about plans to join the jihad 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).
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If memory serves me correctly there is a specific verse in the Koran that allows for a Muslim to lie if it is perceived his/her life is in danger. Intelligence operations catch people who in ore cases than most are clearly involved in subversive activities/guilty of something, the old expression where there is smoke there is fire would seem fitting!
Take note, your actions do come with consequences. You took for granted all the rights and freedoms you had here in the U.S. and wanted to destroy them. Now that your philosophy isn’t working out so well for you, and you face being judged by others you want to yell foul?
I don’t claim to know the right answer. Just know that you HAD rights and privelages that you scorned and spit in the face of, when so many others in the world would have given their eye teeth to have and now that you are facing the reality of living in their world and facing the exact situateions you wanted to advance through your proposed acts that it no longer suits you? Man up. You are getting exactly what you asked for! How do you like it?
Well I guess the US consulate is watching out for you guys, seeing that you get fair treatment, a fair trial, medication (if you need them),I bet they even arrange mail back to your parents in the US, and are falling over themselves to meet your every whim, these are type of guys you set out to murder, along with fellow Americans, as young as yourselves, who enlisted in the US forces, to free the Afghan peoples from the Taliban.
You went to Pakistan, prepared, in your own minds, to murder your fellow Americans, dam the consequence, and I suppose when you have completed your forty years in a squalid Pakistan prison, you will think its your birthright to return to the USA to retire, “huh”, well I think that would be wrong, your birthright should go out of the window, the minute you decided to murder fellow Americans, and there should be no return to US soil ever!!!.