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Pakistan detains five Americans in raid on militants | Five young Muslim American persons from the Washington suburbs, who disappeared late last month, have been
detained in Pakistan on Wednesday, during a police raid on a house linked to a militant group, American and Pakistani officials said. One of the men had left
behind an 11-minute video calling for the defense of Muslims in conflicts with
the West and suggesting that "young Muslims have to do something," said one person
who had seen the video, describing it as a farewell of sorts. The five young men
were detained at a house in Sargodha in Punjab Province that was occupied by Khalid
Farooq, the father of one of the young men, Umer Farooq, a NewYork times report
stated an official familiar with the case. The elder Mr. Farooq is believed to
have ties to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a banned Pakistani militant group, a government
official said. Pakistani news reports also said security officials linked the
house to the militant group. The men, ranging in age from the late teens to early
20s, were not accused of any crime; their intent remained mysterious, and both
American and Pakistani officials emphasized that they were still gathering facts.
One of the men, Ramy Zamzam, 22, is a dental student at Howard University, where
he received an undergraduate degree this year with a major in biology and chemistry,
according to his Facebook page. But their disappearance and resurfacing in Pakistan
came amid broad concern in the United States about a rash of terrorism cases that
appeared to be homegrown. Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group that is working with the families
of the young men, cautioned against hasty conclusions about the episode during
a news conference in Washington with other Muslim leaders. |
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