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| US charges six with aiding Pakistani Taliban |
| 2011-05-14 |
| US officials arrested three Pakistani Americans including two imams Saturday, charging them and three others with providing or seeking to provide "material support" to the Pakistani Taliban, the Justice Department said. The defendants, five men and one woman, "are charged with conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap persons overseas, as well as conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically, the Pakistani Taliban," the department said in a statement. Three of the defendants, including a 76-year-old imam of a Miami mosque, "are also charged with providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban," namely the transfer of funds to finance the group, which Washington lists as a terror organization. At least five of the defendants are members of the same family. The two men arrested in Florida, identified as US nationals Hafiz Khan, the imam and family patriarch, and his son Izhar Khan, 24, also an imam at a separate Florida mosque, are due to appear in federal court in Miami on Monday. A second son, Irfan Khan, was arrested in Los Angeles. Three others, including Khan's daughter and her son, are at large in Pakistan. Each face up to 15 years in prison per count. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Charles: More likely they turn into a wacky Islamist mullah-esque, aggressive, country and push us and India around with nuclear ace card. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2011-05-14 19:58 |
| #6 Jack Salami: Because as long as we do, they won't give the terrorists nukes. Oh sure, they give them material support, arms, logistics, but not freagin NUCLEAR WEAPONS. And I mean anything nuclear, since I have doubts they even have more than a handful of properly-maintained nukes. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-05-14 19:43 |
| #5 well. As usual I did nae read the article, just add another billyion to that magic number of 6 and you be getting the picture. Kill them all, dead, gone, space-dust, fertiliser. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2011-05-14 19:37 |
| #4 anonymous- exactly what I've said for some time...why allow this Crapistan country rope a dope us for decades to come? |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2011-05-14 19:29 |
| #3 Put a warhead on all of their frickin warheads. My tolerance level these cockroaches is subzero. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2011-05-14 17:12 |
| #2 conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically, the Pakistani Taliban Wonder what prompted this? I thought the Taliban wasn't listed as a terrorist org, choosing to "diplomatically" address them, prompting the ridiculous ROE in Afghanistan |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-05-14 15:16 |
| #1 The absurd Obamaholic (whistling past the graveyard) passage: The Justice Department, clearly wary of the sensitivities of linking religious figures to terror groups, repeatedly made clear in its statement that the indictment does not charge or accuse the mosques of wrongdoing, and that the defendants have been charged based on their role in providing "material support to terrorism," and not on their religious beliefs or teachings. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2011-05-14 15:08 |