The five Muslim Americans who were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks will not be deported back to the U.S. or handed over to the FBI due to a court order issued on Monday.
The court order was allegedly in response to a petition filed by former Pakistani intelligence official Khalid Khawaja, who is also the founder of an organization known as Defense of Human Rights of Pakistan.
The five Americans – Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam – were transferred on Saturday from Sargodha, where they were arrested, to Lahore, considered as a more secure location.
A hearing has been scheduled for Thursday by the Lahore High Court, and an order has already been sent to the government to respond to the petition brought forward by Khawaja.
The focus of a police report that documented the interrogation of the five Americans is on 20-year-old Virginia-born Ahmed Abdullah Minni. The report said that Minni regularly went online and followed the attacks on the US military in Afghanistan, leaving statements of praise for these actions. This habit attracted the attention of militants and Minni was said to have been eventually contacted by someone called Saifullah.
A Yahoo e-mail account was eventually set-up as a means of communication between the Americans and the militants, where they left and read messages in the draft section of the account to evade interception by authorities. It was with the person named Saifullah that the Washington-based men made arrangements to move on from Pakistan to Afghanistan. The men met up in Karachi and proceeded to Hyderabad on December 1st.
The men then tried to make contact with two militant groups, the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat-ud Dawa. They were, however, unsuccessful in their attempts as the two groups did not express interest in the men.
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