The five homegrown Jihadists created a video featuring battle footage and rhetoric regarding the need for Muslims to defend themselves

American Jihad: FBI, Pakistani agents interrogate US Muslims

By Jim Kouri
Saturday, December 12, 2009

US federal agents and Pakistani security officials reportedly interrogated the five American Muslims suspected of traveling from the Washington, DC area to to fight with al-Qaeda and the Taliban against coalition forces, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

The five would-be terrorists, ages 19 to 25, who lived in the northern Virginia area, were captured this week in Punjab area’s city of Sargodha. Pakistani Police in Sargodha have charged the American Jihadists with violating Pakistan’s laws regarding foreigners and the use of computers as part of a criminal enterprise.

According to the FBI and Pakistani security officials, the five suspects attended a madrasa, or radical Islamic school, and proclaimed that they wished to join the jihad, or Muslim holy war, against the US and its allies.

The American Jihadists turned up on the FBI’s radar when some of the relatives of the five suspects reported that the five men disappeared from their US homes and that they were “worried about what they were planning to do,â€