I really hope they release that “farewell” video one of the kids left.
Dec. 10: A man walks past a house which residents say was raided by Pakistani security forces during the arrest of five Americans.
Five young American Muslims admitted traveling to Pakistan for jihad, and were on their way to a training camp when they were swept up in an anti-terrorism raid, according to Pakistani law enforcement officials.
The Americans allegedly met with representatives of an Al Qaeda-linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, officials said Thursday.
They were arrested Wednesday at a house in Sargodha linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a banned military organization, Pakistani officers said. This is the same group suspected in the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Investigators are sharing their findings with FBI officials now in Sargodha.
Regional police chief Javed Islam said the men wanted to join militants in Pakistan’s tribal area before crossing into Afghanistan and said they met with Jaish-e-Mohammed in Hyderabad, and with representatives of a related group, Jamat-ud-Dawa, in Lahore.
Another law enforcement official, Usman Anwar, the local police chief in the eastern city of Sargodha, told The Associated Press that the five are “directly connected” to the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
“They are proudly saying they are here for jihad” or holy war, Anwar said.
A key break in the case came not from federal agents or spies, but parents worried their sons may have made a terrible decision.
The families, based in the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area, were particularly concerned after watching what is described as a disturbing farewell video from the young men, showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
The obvious is true. But now let the media blitz begin on how these young boys were just “regular kids” with good grades and blah blah blah and this has nothing to do with Islam, oh and we should probably step up security for Muslims cause all those nutbag muslim haters are gonna go on a killing rampage on the Muslim community just like after the fort hood incident, even though the only the only 2 hate crimes committed after Fort Hood were Muslims committing the crimes against non-Muslims.
And just like the fort hood incident, we’ll see stories come out from several Muslim groups that will praise these young jihadi’s as “courageous” and they’ll hail their bravery and “commitment to Islam”. But you won’t find those stories in the mainstream press because they are just “misunderstanders of Islam” and don’t deserve the press. That info will only come from the whistle-blowing blogs like this one and a few others around the net.
Here is the CAIR news conference where they actually admit a “problem within Islam” but then go on to say that any non-Muslim who says there’s a problem is simply a Muslim-hating Islamophobic bigot…
CAIR is masterful at the spin game…
CNN: One of the Mom’s is denying the whole thing saying their son was in Pakistan for an arranged marriage
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