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Five Muslim Americans with suspected ties to terrorism were detained on December 9, 2009, in Pakistan. The five men, part of an increasing trend in homegrown terrorism, in their late teens to early twenties and from the Washington, D.C., suburbs, were detained during a police raid on a house with links to a militant group. The group is sometimes referred to as the D.C. 5 due to having lived in the D.C. Metro area. Early in the ongoing investigation, officials described them as en route to fight against American forces in Afghanistan. The police chief of Sargodha said the men had been in contact with local militant groups since August 2009. The men had offered their assistance in unspecified attacks. They were not initially accused of a crime. They had been missing from their home area for approximately a month prior to their detention.〔 On June 24, 2010, the five men were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment; both the defense and the prosecution are planning to appeal.〔 ==Overview== The men departed from the Dulles International Airport and travelled to Karachi, Pakistan, and then Hyderabad, to Lahore, spending five days there, and finally to Sargodha.〔 They landed in Karachi on November 20.〔 One of the men had left an 11-minutes-long video expressing his view that Muslim lands must be defended against western "invaders," although it was not described as a martyrdom video typical amongst militants.〔 According to investigators, the men had planned to meet a contact close to the Afghan border between Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, and then to proceed to the stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.〔 That contact turned out to be a Taliban recruiter named Saifullah, whom Minni had met on the internet after the latter posted remarks praising video footage on YouTube showing attacks on American forces. The house they were detained at is in Sargodha in Punjab Province, and was occupied by Khalid Farooq. Farooq is the father of one of the men, and is suspected of ties to Jaish-e-Muhammed, a banned militant group to which the house itself is also linked,〔 and was owned by the uncle of one of the men.〔 According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the men "were detained without incident."〔 Investigators stated that the men were en route to Afghanistan to fight on the side of the Taliban〔 against U.S. and NATO forces.〔 The investigators mentioned that the men had planned to go to South Waziristan, a lawless region used by militant groups for training purposes, from Sargodha.〔 Pakistani officials said that men were a security threat and that they had arrested before being able to mount an attack.〔 A prosecutor in the case, Nadeem Akram Cheema, said, based upon their contact with a Taliban recruiter, "They wanted to be part of an operation. They and their handlers did not have enough time to plan a meticulous attack and were nabbed before they could."〔 The men have said they were en route to Afghanistan to perform charity〔〔 and humanitarian work assisting Muslim refugees. Listed on their visa applications as the purpose of travel, however, was to attend a friend's wedding in Karachi and sightsee in Lahore and Sargodha.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「D.C. Five」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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