Word: sargodha
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...November 2008 assault on Mumbai. David Headley, who has pleaded not guilty, allegedly surveilled potential targets for the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Meanwhile, on Dec. 9, five U.S. citizens of Pakistani and Middle Eastern descent were arrested on terrorism charges in a raid in Sargodha, Pakistan. U.S. officials tell TIME the men are from the Washington area and that one of them left a farewell video stating that Muslims "must be defended...
...Usman Anwar, chief of police in Sargodha, the town where the five men were apprehended, says the men told interrogators they were there "for jihad" and that they were planning to launch "jihad against the U.S. infidel forces, wherever they are." (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...Pakistani officials say that following a tip-off by the FBI, they began tracking the five men as soon as they landed in Karachi in late November. They then allegedly traveled to the city of Hyderabad and finally to Sargodha, 120 miles south of Islamabad. "We wanted to see who they were meeting, whether it was Taliban or Lashkar or Jaish," says an official who asked not to be named. (Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad are among several terrorist groups active in Punjab province...
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