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| 'Arrested US men had maps of Pak N-sites' |
| 2009-12-27 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Sargodha had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities, authorities said on Saturday. The young Muslims were picked up earlier this month in a case that has spurred fears that Westerners are traveling to Pakistan to join the militant groups. Police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory allegations about the men's intentions, while the US officials have been far more cautious, though they, too, are looking at charging the men. A Pakistani government official said on Saturday that the men had established contact with the Taliban commanders and planned to attack sites in Pakistan. Earlier, however, the local police accused the men of intending to fight in Afghanistan after meeting militant leaders. The men had a map of the Chashma Barrage, a complex that, along with nuclear power facilities, houses a water reservoir and other structures, said Javed Islam, a senior police official in Sargodha. He stressed that the men were not carrying a specific map of any nuclear power plant, but rather the whole of the Chashma Barrage. The detained men also had exchanged e-mails about the area, Islam said. "We are also working to retrieve some of the deleted material in their computers," he said. Police plan to recommend that courts charge the five men with collecting and attempting to collect material to carry out terrorist activities in Pakistan, police official Nazir Ahmad told The Associated Press. The punishments for those charges range from seven years to life in prison, he said. In an interview with The Associated Press, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the men had established contact with the Taliban commanders. He said they had planned to meet Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and his deputy Qari Hussain before attacking sites inside Pakistan. The nuclear power plant might have been one of the targets, Sanaullah said. Police have also alleged that the men met representatives from the al-Qaeda-linked Jaish-e-Mohammed group in Hyderabad and from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Lahore, but the groups turned the men away because they did not trust them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 VARIOUS MUIL FORUMS > Artics allege that so-called "US JIHADIST" DAVID HEADLEY [aka DAEWOOD GILANI, etal.] took photos of INDIAN NUCFACS including Facilis capable or involved in PLUTONIUM PROCESSING, as part of terror conspiracy-plot to strike at India's nuc assets??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-27 20:26 |