{"id":115822,"date":"2009-12-30T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/12\/30\/pakistan-detained-americans-had-nuclear-power-site-map.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T18:08:50","slug":"pakistan-detained-americans-had-nuclear-power-site-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115822","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Detained Americans had Nuclear Power Site Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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cryptogon.com<\/a>
\nTuesday, Dec 29th, 2009<\/p>\n

Were they wearing Dockers<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Via: Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained
\nin Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power
\nfacilities.<\/em><\/p>\n

The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were
\narrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and
\ngovernment officials have made a series of escalating and, at times,
\nseemingly contradictory claims about the men\u2019s intentions. US
\nofficials have been far more cautious, but they, too, are looking at
\ncharging the men.<\/p>\n

A Pakistani government official alleged on Saturday that the men had
\nestablished contact with Taliban commanders and had planned to attack
\nsites in Pakistan. Earlier, however, local police accused the five of
\nintending to fight in Afghanistan after meeting militant leaders.<\/p>\n

The men allegedly had a map of Chashma Barrage, a complex that along
\nwith nuclear power facilities houses a water reservoir and other
\nstructures, said Javed Islam, a senior police official in the Sargodha
\narea of Punjab province where the men were arrested.<\/p>\n

He stressed that they were not carrying a specific map of a nuclear
\npower plant, but a map of the whole Chashma Barrage. The detained men
\nhad also exchanged emails about the area, Islam claimed. \u201cWe are
\nalso working to retrieve the deleted material in their
\ncomputers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has an arsenal of nuclear weapons, but also has nuclear power plants for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n

Any nuclear activity in Pakistan tends to come under US scrutiny
\nafter the main architect of its atomic weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer
\nKhan, was accused of leaking sensitive nuclear secrets. But, as
\nmilitancy has spread in Pakistan, officials have repeatedly insisted
\nthat the nuclear weapons programme is secure.<\/p>\n

A Pakistani police official, Nazir Ahmad, told the Associated Press
\nthat the force would ask the courts to charge the five men with
\ncollecting and attempting to collect material to carry out terrorist
\nactivities in the country. If convicted, the charges carry a sentence
\nof from seven years to life in prison, he said.<\/p>\n

Officials in Pakistan and America say they expect the suspects
\neventually to be deported back to the US, but charging the men in
\nPakistan could delay that process. The country\u2019s legal system can
\nbe slow and opaque.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, Punjab
\nprovince\u2019s law minister, Rana Sanaullah, claimed the men had
\nestablished contact with Taliban commanders. He said they planned to
\nmeet the Pakistani Taliban chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, and his deputy,
\nQari Hussain, in the tribal region before going on to attack sites
\ninside Pakistan. The nuclear power plant \u201cmight have been\u201d
\none of the targets, Sanaullah alleged.<\/p>\n

FBI agents have been granted some access to the men, who are being
\nheld in Lahore, capital of Punjab province, and are looking into what
\npotential charges they could face in the US. Possibilities include
\nconspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group.<\/p>\n

The five were arrested in Sargodha earlier this month, but are being held in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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