Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism
By The Associated Press
This article was published March 17, 2010 at 11:15 a.m.
PHOTO BY AP
Khalid Farooq, father of Umar Farooq, whom police said is one of the five arrested Americans walks past the jail where their trial is held in Sargodha, Pakistan on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court charged five Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.
The men — all Muslims from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia — pleaded innocent to a total of five charges, the most severe of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, defense lawyer Hasan Dastagir told The Associated Press.
“My clients were in good shape and high spirits,” Dastagir said.
The men, all in their late teens or early 20s, were charged by an anti-terrorism court inside a prison in Sargodha, the city in Punjab province where they were arrested in December.
They were reported missing by their families in November after one left behind a farewell video showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
The men have been identified as Ramy Zamzam of Egyptian descent, Waqar Khan and Umar Farooq of Pakistani descent, and Aman Hassan Yemer and Ahmed Minni of Ethiopian descent.
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