Pak arrests five American Muslims in raid tied to JeM

M Zulqernain and Lalit K Jha
Lahore/Washington, Dec 10 (PTI) Six persons, including
five young American Muslims, were arrested in Pakistan's
Punjab province over possible links to the banned terror group
Jaish-e-Mohammed and Pakistani intelligence and FBI are
probing the case.

The six, who included a highways department employee,
were Wednesday arrested in a raid in a posh residential area
of Sargodha in Punjab, from the home of a JeM leader.
Laptop computers, some CDs, jehadi literature and maps
of sensitive locations were seized from their possession
during the raid, Pakistani police sources said.
"The three foreigners, the two Pakistanis with US
nationality, identified as Omer Farooq and Waqar Hasan Khan,
and a highways department employee named Fahim were arrested
from Farooq's house," a senior police officer of Sargodha
division said.
The officer said the arrested men had links to the
Jaish-e-Mohammed and were planning terror attacks. They were
taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
The five Americans between 19-25 years of age suddenly
disappeared from their homes in Northern Virginia last month
after leaving a farewell video in the Jihadist style showing
conflicts between Western and Muslim nations and war footage.
While law enforcement officials said they had no
evidence that the men had been trained in terror camps or were
planning an attack; but their arrest from a house linked to a
radical jihadist group and the video with jihadist overtones
leads the investigating agencies in that direction. MORE PTI
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