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5 Americans detained in Pakistan raid
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, D.C. area last month, officials from both countries said.
The men were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab, police officer Tahir Gujjar said, adding that three of the men are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other is of Yemeni heritage.
Regional police chief Mian Javed Islam told The Associated Press that the men were between the ages of 18 and 20 and had spent the past few days in the city, which is near an air base about 125 miles (200 kilometers) south of the capital, Islamabad.
He said they were being questioned and it was premature to discuss the reason for the detentions.
But two U.S. officials familiar with the case said the five are believed to be young men from the Washington area who went missing at the end of November.
The FBI has been searching for the men since their families reported them missing and expressed fears they may have gone to Pakistan, according to the two U.S. officials. The two are familiar with the case and spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
One of the men was a dental student at Howard University, according to the officials.
The officials said one of the group — they did not say which one — left behind what investigators believe was a farewell video message, in which he talks about defending Muslims and shows images of U.S. casualties.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Rick Snelsire said officials there were aware of the reported arrests, but could not confirm them.
A report on the Web site of the Pakistani newspaper The News said one only one of the men was American.
Quoting a senior police officer, the report said it "was quite a possibility that they (the five men) were engaged in acts of terrorism."
Pakistan has many militant groups based on its territory and the U.S. has been pressing the government to crack down on extremism. Al-Qaida and Taliban militants are believed to be hiding in safe havens in lawless tribal areas near the Afghan border.
Khan reported from Islamabad; Barrett from Washington.
Weapons and ammunition seized at home of Holly Springs terrorist
by Juli Denning
The Apex Herald
October 1, 2009
A search warrant
from the U.S. Attorney's Office released on Wednesday, shows federal agents
seized ammunition, empty weapon boxes and a case of CD's labeled "September 11,
2001," from the home where alleged terrorist Anes Subasic lived before his
arrest.
Subasic, 33, a Bosnian refugee and a naturalized U.S. citizen, lived with his
father, Dragan Subasic, at 248 Adefield Lane in Holly Springs. The elder Subasic
emigrated to the states from Kosovo a little more than a decade ago.
Agents spent approximately nine hours combing through the Subasic home and
removed three and a half handwritten pages of items. In addition to Subasic's
personal papers, other items seized include cell phones, books and articles
about Islam and counter-terrorism literature, shooting materials and handcuffs.
Also seized were three books on lock picking and a certificate from "Escaping
from Captivity Course" that Subasic reportedly attended in Las Vegas which also
taught assassination and survival skills.
Subasic was indicted in July along with Daniel Boyd, 39, of Lakeside Circle,
Willow Spring and the accused ringleader of the group, his sons Dylan Boyd, 22,
and Zakariya "Zak" Boyd, 20; and Hysen Sherifi, 24, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan,
22, and Ziyad Yaghi, 21, on charges that they plotted to murder, kidnap, maim
and injure people overseas.
An eighth suspect in the case, Jude Kenan Mohammad, 20, is thought to be in
Pakistan.
During a bond hearing in August, an FBI agent told the court that Boyd told him
he had attended terror camps in Connecticut in the late 1980, along with three
more in Pakistan.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said while the United States still faces threats
from al Qaeda, and many of its affiliated groups, there's also a challenge in
dealing with "homegrown extremists" in the states who aren't part of those
terrorist organizations, but believe in their ideologies and wish to harm the
U.S. in furtherance of it.
"As articulated in the indictment, Daniel Boyd received military-style training
in terrorist camps during the 1989 through 1992 timeframe for the purpose of
engaging in violent jihad," said Mueller at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
"Following this training, he allegedly fought in Afghanistan and then returned
to the United States. Part of the conspiracy involved radicalizing mostly young
Muslims or converts to Islam to believe in the idea that violent jihad was a
personal obligation on the part of every good Muslim.
"The conspiracy also consisted of training in weapons, financing, and assistance
in arranging overseas travel and contacts so that others could participate in
violence."
In a conversation from a tape made in May 2009, Boyd discussed with a witness
about getting the money needed to wage jihad by hitting banks, Wells Fargo
trucks and "dope boys."
On the transcript, Boyd stated, "the fact of the matter is, is that these dope
boys, they be carrying a lot of money."
Boyd states that they should snatch it from them and use it for the "sake of
Allah."
"Don't go around grabbing it and feeding your family or something. If you take
it, send it to mujahidin or somebody with it," he said.
Boyd also told the witness he didn't want "no chump" that he wanted ten grand
and up.
FBI agents reportedly seized $13,000 in cash, along with a deposit slip for
$16,000 which Boyd's son had, several weapons, four gas masks and 27,000 rounds
of ammunition from the Boyd home after the arrests.
In addition, agents seized a document described as a fatwa of jihad against
America. It includes the assertion that the killing of Americans and their
allies "is an individual duty for every Muslim."
"We -- with God's help --call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to
be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their
money wherever and whenever they find it," the document states.
The court case against the seven charged isn't expected to take place until
sometime late next year.